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Jester, a chess engine by Stéphane Nguyen, written in Java, distributed as helpware. As Java applet, Jesper is launched from a web page and executed within a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) in a process separate from the web browser itself. Jester uses the ICS protocol allowing it playing on free chess servers. Jester played various French Computer Chess Championships and French Programmers Tournaments from 1998 until 2003.

=Selected Games= FCCC 2002, round 6, Jester 2.0 - Chess Tiger 15 [Event "FCCC 2002"] [Site "Massy, FR"] [Date "2002-10-05"] [Round "6"] [White "Jester 2.0"] [Black "Chess Tiger 15"] [Result "1/2-1/2"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Bxc4 c5 6.O-O a6 7.Bb3 Nc6 8.Nc3 cxd4 9.Nxd4 Bd7 10.e4 Qc7 11.Be3 Bd6 12.f4 Bc5 13.e5 Ng4 14.Qxg4 Nxd4 15.Ba4 b5 16.Bd1 O-O 17.Ne4 Ba7 18.Nf6+ Kh8 19.Qh4 gxf6 20.Qxf6+ Kg8 21.Qg5+ Kh8 22.Qf6+ Kg8 23.Qg5+ Kh8 24.Qf6+ 1/2-1/2

=Namesake=
 * Jester based on TSCP by Marty Franz

=See also=
 * Comics
 * Dorpsgek
 * Joker by Marc-François Baudot and Jean-Christophe Weill
 * Joker by Manlio Morini
 * Joker by Harm Geert Muller

=Forum Posts=
 * Jester for Download by Đorđe Vidanović, Winboard Forum, September 17, 1999
 * To Stephane N B Nguyen (Jester) by ludicrous, CCC, October 07, 2002
 * I Assume Jester Is Not Compiled... by Graham Laight, CCC, January 07, 2003
 * Jester Program by S Nguyen by Swaminathan Natarajan, Winboard Forum, December 27, 2003

=External Links=

Chess engine

 * LudoChess - Jester, the strongest pure java chess program (Wayback Machine)
 * LudoChess - Les jeux d'Echecs 100% pur Java - Downloads (Wayback Machine)
 * The chess games of Jester from chessgames.com

Misc

 * Jester from Wikipedia
 * Jester (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
 * Jester (Marvel Comics) from Wikipedia
 * Jester (Quality Comics) from Wikipedia
 * Tigran Shadow Theater - The Court Jester, Jazz à la Villette, 2013, YouTube Video
 * Tigran Hamasyan, Areni Agbabian, Ben Wendel, Chris Tordini, Nate Wood, Video art by Ruben van Leer

=References= Up one Level