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Armageddon, a Polish chess program, a WinBoard compliant engine, optionally with an own GUI, written by Grzegorz Sidorowicz. Its first release comes from December 31, 1999, and the name is a pun based on prediction that the world would end in 2000.

=Tournament Play= Armageddon regularly played the Polish Computer Chess Championship and became runner up at the PCCC 2002 and PCCC 2003. It further participated at the CCT3, CCT4 and CCT5 on-line tournaments.

=Selected Games= PCCC 2002, round 6, Belzebub - Armageddon [Event "PCCC 2002"] [Site "Lodz"] [Date "2002.09.14"] [Round "6"] [White "Belzebub"] [Black "Armageddon"] [Result "0-1"]

1.Nf3 d5 2.e3 Nf6 3.d4 g6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bd3 c5 6.O-O c4 7.Be2 Bb4 8.a3 Bxc3 9.bxc3 Ne4 10.Bb2 Qa5 11.Qe1 O-O 12.Ne5 f6 13.Ng4 e5 14.dxe5 Bxg4 15.Bxg4 fxe5 16.Be6+ Kg7 17.Rb1 Ng5 18.Bg4 Nc6 19.f3 h5 20.Bd7 Nb8 21.Bh3 Nxh3+ 22.gxh3 Nc6 23.e4 dxe4 24.fxe4 Rxf1+ 25.Kxf1 Qa4 26.Qd2 Rd8 27.Qe2 Qb5 28.Kg1 Rf8 29.Kh1 b6 30.Qd2 Qc5 31.Qd7+ Rf7 32.Qd5 Qe3 33.Qxc4 Qf3+ 34.Kg1 Qf2+ 35.Kh1 Qxc2 36.Re1 Rf2 37.Qf1 Rxf1+ 38.Rxf1 Qxb2 39.h4 Qxc3 40.Kg2 Qxa3 41.Rf3 Qb4 42.h3 Qxe4 43.Kg3 Nd4 44.Rf2 Qh1 45.Rg2 Qe1+ 46.Rf2 Qg1+ 47.Rg2 Nf5+ 48.Kf3 Qe3# 0-1

=Forum Posts=
 * Armageddon Chess 1.0 by Martin Grabriel, CCC, January 04, 2000
 * New Armageddon Chess II (2.131) by Grzegorz Sidorowicz, CCC, May 24, 2002
 * Armageddon by Grzegorz Sidorowicz, CCC, September 02, 2003

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * Armageddon homepage
 * Armageddon 2.308 in KCEC

Armageddon

 * Armageddon the final Battle from Wikipedia
 * Armageddon (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
 * Armageddon Fast chess from Wikipedia
 * Armageddon Tiebreakers - Armageddon Games in Chess by Edward Scimia, About.com
 * Apocalypse from Wikipedia
 * Doomsday from Wikipedia
 * End time from Wikipedia
 * List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events - Wikipedia
 * Ragnarök from Wikipedia
 * The End from Wikipedia
 * Wayne Shorter - Armageddon, YouTube Video
 * lineup: Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, Reggie Workman, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones

Time Problems

 * Y1C Problem from Wikipedia
 * Year 2000 problem from Wikipedia
 * Year 2038 problem from Wikipedia

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