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Chess Genius (ChessGenius), a series of chess engines by Richard Lang, written in assembly for various processor architectures such as Motorola 68000 and Intel 8086 and x86, and successor of Lang's dedicated 68000 based Mephisto Vancouver program incorporating small improvements, the 8086 version first released in 1992 as PC program running under 16-bit MS-DOS. Chess Genius 2 won the manufacturers and Absolute World Microcomputer Chess Champion titles at the WMCCC 1993 running on the PC based Mephisto Wundermaschine, and was also shipped as Mephisto Genius 68030 module for Mephisto module systems.

=Windows=

Chess Genius 4 in 1995 became a 16-bit Windows program with a GUI developed by Adrian Millett written in C, which further evolved to a multi-engine GUI via Chess Genius 6 (6.5) to the Millennium Chess System , and the Chess Genius Classic GUI. Chess Genius was further ported to various PDA and mobile platforms, such as Palm and Apple's iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes Store, as well as Android. In November 2015, Chess Genius, ported to the ARM Cortex-M processor, was released as dedicated Millennium ChessGenius. =Intel Grand Prix= In 1994, during the Intel Grand Prix Cycle in London, Chess Genius 3, operated by Ossi Weiner, won a speed chess game (25-minutes per side) versus Garry Kasparov and drew the second game, knocking Kasparov out of the tournament. This was the first match that Kasparov ever lost to a computer. In the next round, Genius then beat Predrag Nikolić, but then lost to Viswanathan Anand.

[Event "Intel Chess Grand Prix"] [Site "London (England)"] [Date "1994.08.12"] [Round "1"] [White "Garry Kasparov"] [Black "Chess Genius"] [Result "0-1"]

1.c4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Qc2 dxc4 5.Qxc4 Bf5 6.Nc3 Nbd7 7.g3 e6 8.Bg2 Be7 9.O-O O-O 10.e3 Ne4 11.Qe2 Qb6 12.Rd1 Rad8 13.Ne1 Ndf6 14.Nxe4 Nxe4 15.f3 Nd6 16.a4 Qb3 17.e4 Bg6 18.Rd3 Qb4 19.b3 Nc8 20.Nc2 Qb6 21.Bf4 c5 22.Be3 cxd4 23.Nxd4 Bc5 24.Rad1 e5 25.Nc2 Rxd3 26.Qxd3 Ne7 27.b4 Bxe3+ 28.Qxe3 Rd8 29.Rxd8+ Qxd8 30.Bf1 b6 31.Qc3 f6 32.Bc4+ Bf7 33.Ne3 Qd4 34.Bxf7+ Kxf7 35.Qb3+ Kf8 36.Kg2 Qd2+ 37.Kh3 Qe2 38.Ng2 h5 39.Qe3 Qc4 40.Qd2 Qe6+ 41.g4 hxg4 42.fxg4 Qc4 43.Qe1 Qb3+ 44.Ne3 Qd3 45.Kg3 Qxe4 46.Qd2 Qf4+ 47.Kg2 Qd4 48.Qxd4 exd4 49.Nc4 Nc6 50.b5 Ne5 51.Nd6 d3 52.Kf2 Nxg4+ 53.Ke1 Nxh2 54.Kd2 Nf3+ 55.Kxd3 Ke7 56.Nf5+ Kf7 57.Ke4 Nd2+ 58.Kd5 g5 59.Nd6+ Kg6 60.Kd4 Nb3+ 0-1
 * View this game on Lichess.org

=Android=

ChessGenius for Android is a chess playing program for phones and tablets with Android 4.0 and higher with hundreds of playing levels including 13 easy levels where ChessGenius makes deliberate mistakes.

=Instances=
 * Mephisto Wundermaschine
 * Mephisto Genius 68030
 * Millennium ChessGenius

=See also=
 * Mephisto
 * Mephisto Vancouver
 * Millennium Chess System
 * Psion

=Publications=
 * Eric Hallsworth (1992). Chess Genius. Selective Search 43, pp. 7, pdf hosted by Mike Watters
 * Richard Lang (1995). Chess Genius 4. Computer Chess Reports Vol. 5 No. 3+4, pp. 80
 * Paul Wiereyn (1997). Genius-3 Cooked Endgame Studies. ICCA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3

=Forum Posts=

1993 ...

 * Chess Genius by Roy Eassa, rgc, March 08, 1993
 * Chess Genius by Ray Helie, rgc, June 08, 1993
 * New programs released! by Ralf Stephan, rgc, October 10, 1993 » Gideon
 * Chess Genius 2.0 by Murat Saygin, rgc, December 18, 1993
 * Mephisto Genius 3.0 - A bit of info by Franz Hemmer, rgc, October 02, 1994
 * cg by Pc Solutions, rgc, December 29, 1994

1995 ...

 * Genius 4 is a Windows program by Andy Duplain, rgcc, November 24, 1995
 * Win95/genius 4 users note by PC SOL, rgcc, March 30, 1996
 * Chess Genius 3.0--->4.0 Upgrade by Daniel Chinn, rgcc, August 07, 1996
 * Genius 5 (DOS us Windows) by Hansjoerg Zech, rgcc, December 11, 1996
 * Genius isn't sensitive enough? by Serge Desmarais, rgcc, April 16, 1997
 * Genius' asymmetric-search by example: TRY yourself by Thorsten Czub, rgcc, December 30, 1997
 * Chess Genius 5 by Frank Nelson, rgcc, April 18, 1998
 * Opinions on Genius 5.0 by barry, rgcc, April 18, 1998
 * CG6 --- integration of all chess engines -- good or bad?! by Lonnie, rgcc, November 03, 1998 » Millennium Chess System
 * Genius 6 Questions by Chessnut, rgcc, February 20, 1999
 * Re: Chess Genius 6.5 by Pc Solutions, rgcc, November 24, 1999 » Shredder, Millennium Chess System
 * Genius 6.5 - Is it an improvement? by Albert Silver, CCC, November 25, 1999

2000 ...

 * Re. Genius on Palm / Richard Lang the return by Steve Maughan, CCC, February 09, 2000
 * Genius 6.5 vs. 6.0/6.1 vs. 5 by Roy Eassa, CCC, December 07, 2000
 * Genius2 is clearly a legal free program by Uri Blass, CCC, April 09, 2001
 * Genius strongest version? by Jonas Cohonas, CCC, July 09, 2002
 * Chess Genius 7 Engine by James Constance, CCC, November 02, 2002
 * Is Genius the only asymmetry program out there? by Dana Turnmire, CCC, October 08, 2003
 * Re: Is Genius the only asymmetry program out there? by Christophe Théron, CCC, October 08, 2003


 * Chess Genius 5 question by Murat, CCC, December 29, 2004

2005 ...

 * Asymmetry in Genius? by Vladimir Medvedev, CCC, September 15, 2005
 * Chess Genius Classic 7 by adam wilks, CCC, December 16, 2005
 * Question about ChessGenius for Symbian OS by Vikrant Malvankar, CCC, December 19, 2005
 * Richard Lang Give me Some News by Fernando Villegas, CCC, June 01, 2007
 * Who is testing Genius 7? by Marek Soszynski, CCC, December 21, 2007
 * ChessGenius Classic 7.200e Download by Norbert Raimund Leisner, CCC, July 23, 2008
 * ChessGenius for the iPhone by Bryan Whitby, CCC, October 22, 2008

2010 ...

 * Strength of Chess Genius Classic by Gerald Grimsley, CCC, October 06, 2010
 * Re: Some thoughts on QS by Don Dailey, CCC, July 24, 2012 » Quiescence Search
 * ChessGenius for Windows 8 by Norbert Raimund Leisner, CCC, May 12, 2013
 * Embedded freeware engines into ChessGenius Classic GUI by Norbert Raimund Leisner, CCC, July 25, 2014

2015 ...

 * Does DOSBOX accept Mephisto Genius 3? by Jonathan Lee, CCC, April 03, 2015 » MS-DOS
 * ChessGenius 7 Classic GUI - commercial UCI chess engines by Norbert Raimund Leisner, CCC, April 14, 2015
 * Millennium Chess Genius is here by Thorsten Czub, CCC, October 09, 2015 » Millennium ChessGenius
 * Chess Genius Pro by Hans van Mierlo, Hiarcs Forum, August 12, 2016
 * Chess Genius 3 Beat Kasparov on a Pentium 90? by Brendan J. Norman, CCC, May 30, 2017

=External Links=
 * Official Website
 * Chess Genius' ICGA Tournaments
 * Download Chess Programs hosted by Ed Schröder
 * ChessGenius from Wikipedia
 * ChessGenius Classic 7.0 - The Chess Program that beat Kasparov!
 * ChessGenius for Desktop PC's - Adding chess engines in the ChessGenius GUI

=References=

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