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Bernie, a chess program by Christopher Lutz written in Turbo C and 68000 Assembly for the Atari ST. Bernie participated at the First IPCCC 1991 in Paderborn running on a 1040STE with 1,000 nodes per second, and became shared third with 3/5, tied with Check Check behind Zugzwang on 256 transputers and Bobby II. Recognizing the amount of work to furher improve his program, Christopher Lutz then decided to better invest his time in his own chess playing career.

=Selected Games= IPCCC 1991, round 2, Bernie - Nimzo. Strange computer chess in 1991! [Event "IPCCC 1991"] [Site "Paderborn, GER"] [Date "1991.10.04"] [Round "2"] [White "Bernie"] [Black "Nimzo"] [Result "1/2-1/2"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 Ne4 3.Bf4 e6 4.e3 d5 5.Bd3 Nd7 6.Bxe4 dxe4 7.Nd2 Nf6 8.Be5 Bd7 9.Bxf6 gxf6 10.Nxe4 Bc6 11.f3 Rg8 12.Ng3 Qd5 13.e4 Qb5 14.Qc1 O-O-O 15.c3 h5 16.Nh3 a5 17.Qc2 h4 18.a4 Qb6 19.Nh5 Be7 20.Kf1 e5 21.dxe5 fxe5 22.c4 Qe3 23.Qc3 Qxc3 24.bxc3 Rd3 25.Rc1 Rd2 26.Nf2 Ra2 27.Ng4 Rg5 28.Nhf6 Bxf6 29.Nxf6 Rgxg2 30.Ng4 Bxe4 31.Nxe5 Rg4 32.Nxg4 Bxf3 33.Rg1 h3 34.Rg3 Bxg4 35.Rxg4 Rxh2 36.Rg8+ Kd7 37.Rd1+ Ke7 38.Rc8 Ke6 39.Rd3 Rh1+ 40.Kf2 c6 41.Re8+ Kf6 42.Rf3+ Kg7 43.Re7 h2 44.Rfxf7+ Kg6 45.Rg7+ Kf5 46.Rgf7+ Kg6 47.Rg7+ Kf5 48.Rgf7+ Kg6 1/2-1/2

=See also=
 * Paul

=Publications=
 * Lars Bremer (2005). Interview: GM Christopher Lutz. CSS Online, pdf (German)

=External Links=
 * Bernie from Wikipedia
 * Bernie (given name) from Wikipedia

=References= Up one level