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The French program Joker was a variation of the Écume chess engine by Marc-François Baudot and Jean-Christophe Weill. The idea behind it was "Entropic extension", if the position was not stable enough, an extension of the search was made (the stability was considered as a function of the last move). The idea came from Vincent David's Ph.D. thesis.

Joker won the 2nd French Computer Chess Championship. Écume hold the second place. Joker did show some impressive play, also at Aegon 1994, but the idea was abandoned, the search was too slow (Even if it was coded in assembly language).

=Namesake=
 * Joker by Manlio Morini
 * Joker by Harm Geert Muller

=See also=
 * Jester by Stéphane Nguyen
 * Jester by Marty Franz

=External Links=
 * Joker disambiguation page from Wikipedia
 * Joker (playing card) from Wikipedia
 * Joker (comics) from Wikipedia
 * Joker (comic book) from Wikipedia
 * Karim Ziad Ifrikya - The Joker, Festival de L'Estrade, Argein, September 2007, YouTube Video

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