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Psycho, a chess program by Ian Kennedy, which played the UPCCC 1993 and UPCCC 1994 Uniform-Platform Computer Chess Championship organized by Don Beal. An early prototype of Psycho applied floating point arithmetic, and as reported by Ian Kennedy speed up by a factor of 10 after conversion to an integer evaluation score . In 1997, Psycho applied a parallel search on an Intel dual Pentium SMP system running Windows NT 4.0, splitting at the root .

=See also=
 * Psycho-Chess
 * PsycoChess

=Forum Posts=
 * QMW computer chess by Don Beal, rec.games.chess, August 19, 1993
 * Re: Which is better, IYHO by Ian Kennedy, rgcc, August 20, 1995
 * Re: Playing for position (mobility) by Ian Kennedy, rgcc, October 01, 1995 » Mobility
 * A parallel processing chess program for the 'Wintel' platform by Ian Kennedy, rgcc, March 9, 1997 » Parallel Search

=External Links=
 * psycho - Wiktionary
 * Psycho from Wikipedia
 * Psycho (film) from Wikipedia
 * Alfred Hitchcock from Wikipedia


 * Muse - Psycho (2015), YouTube Video

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