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'''[[Main Page|Home]] * [[Engines]] * Bionic'''
[[FILE:Ailes battantes Luc Viatour.jpg|border|right|thumb| Bionics - biologically inspired engineering <ref>Design for a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_machine flying machine] inspired by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithopter Ornithopter] wings, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Atlanticus Codex Atlanticus] f.858r is a drawing by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci [Mathematician#Leonardo|Leonardo da Vinci]], Photo by [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lviatour Luc Viatour], 2007, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons]</ref> ]]
'''Bionic''', ('''B'''elieve '''i'''t '''o'''r '''n'''ot '''i'''t's [[Checkmate|checkmate]])<br/>
a chess program written in [[Basic]] by [[Hans Secelle]] during the early 90s. Bionic participated at four [[Dutch Open Computer Chess Championship|Dutch Open Computer Chess Championships]], [[DOCCC 1994|1994]], [[DOCCC 1995|1995]], [[DOCCC 1996|1996]] and [[DOCCC 1997|1997]], and three [[Aegon Tournaments]], [[Aegon 1995|1995]], [[Aegon 1996|1996]] and [[Aegon 1997|1997]].
While Bionic was a slow searcher, it was an attempt of a knowledgeable program, inspired by from ideas of ''[[Peter van Diepen#SchakenvoorComputers|Schaken voor Computers]]'' by [[Peter van Diepen]] and [[Jaap van den Herik]], and ''[[Hans-Joachim Kraas#Computerschachbuch|Het Computerschaakboek]]'' by [[Hans-Joachim Kraas]], [[Günther Schrüfer]], and Rainer Bartels Bartel <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=40582 Re: Bionic vs Crafty, once again] by [[Đorđe Vidanović]], [[CCC]], January 23, 1999</ref>.
=Bionic Impakt=
Bionic's [[C]]-successor [[Bionic Impakt]], which played the [[DOCCC 1998]], was based on [[Crafty]] <ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/msg/bb5b443496ea75fd Re: Chess programming] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], June 18, 2002</ref> with [[Evaluation Function|evaluation functions]] such as [[Piece-Square Tables|piece squares]], [[Attacks|attack heuristics]], [[Oracle|root-evaluation]], as well as the [[Opening Book|opening book]] and [[Time Management|time controls]] incorporated from Bionic <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=40574 Bionic vs Crafty, once again] by [[Đorđe Vidanović]], [[CCC]], January 23, 1999</ref>.
=Forum Posts=
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=40574 Bionic vs Crafty, once again] by [[Đorđe Vidanović]], [[CCC]], January 23, 1999
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=41059 Comparing Bionic-Impakt vs Bionic] by [[Albrecht Heeffer]], [[CCC]], January 27, 1999 » [[Engine Similarity]]
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