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Paul, a chess program written by Christopher Lutz and Michael Schmitt in Turbo Pascal, and participant of the WMCCC 1989 in Portorož. Paul was inspired by the Basic program Demoschach as described in the German Data Becker computer chess book by Rainer Bartel, Hans-Joachim Kraas and Günther Schrüfer. The evaluation was a little bit ad hoc and not that well tuned. Paul happily exchanged its fianchetto bishop for the knight and doubled c pawn, which took Christopher Lutz, already international master at that time, on his own responsibility.

=Scholarship= In 1989, both authors received the Mephisto "Young Programmers" Scholarship of $2,500 for programmers under 19 years of age who have written the best chess program, sponsored by Hegener & Glaser : The ICCA is pleased to congratulate Mr. Schmitt and Mr. Lutz for their success. Each of them receive $1,250 from Hegener & Glaser, sponsor of this scholarship, to be used at any college or university of their choice. Hegener & Glaser also kindly sponsored their travel costs to Portorož for the World Microcomputer Chess Championship in September.

=Selected Games= WMCCC 1989, round 5, Paul - Nightmare : [Event "WMCCC 1989"] [Site "Portorož, Slovenia"] [Date "1989.09.??"] [Round "5"] [White "Paul"] [Black "Nightmare (D)"] [Result "1-0"]

1.g3 d5 2.Bg2 e5 3.d3 Be6 4.f4 Nc6 5.fxe5 Nxe5 6.e4 Bg4 7.Qd2 dxe4 8.Bxe4 Qe7 9.Nc3 O-O-O 10.Qf2 Bd7 11.Qxa7 c6 12.Nge2 Qd6 13.d4 Nc4 14.Bf4 Ne5 15.Bxe5 Qxe5 16.dxe5 1-0

=See also=
 * Bernie
 * Morphy
 * PK

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

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * Paul's ICGA Tournaments

Misc

 * Paul Morphy from Wikipedia
 * Paul Keres from Wikipedia
 * Paul Krüger (chess player) from Wikipedia
 * Paul (given name) from Wikipedia
 * Paul (disambiguation) from Wikipedia

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