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'''Bionic Impakt''', <br/>
a [[Crafty#CraftyClones|Crafty Cloneclone]] by [[Hans Secelle]] and [[Albrecht Heeffer]]. Hans added a lot of knowledge incorporated from his former program [[Bionic]] concerning [[Oracle|prescan routines]] and [[Evaluation|evaluation]] as well as [[Opening Book|opening book]] and [[Time Management|time controls]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=40574 Bionic vs Crafty, once again] by [[Đorđe Vidanović]], [[CCC]], January 23, 1999</ref>.
There were no attempts to "hide" anything from Hans' and Albrecht's side <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=40771 Re: Bionic Vs Crafty Debate: some data required] by [[Albrecht Heeffer]], [[CCC]], January 25, 1999</ref>,
and despite violating the Crafty license, since program changes were never published <ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess.computer/5UY1x3Y8GZU/_XXqljREW7sJ Re: Chess programming] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], June 18, 2002</ref>, and lack of explicit permission by [[Robert Hyatt]] <ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess.computer/9rGQHAqgWpQ/dl-rAolPnaQJ Re: POOR BOB HYATT] by [[Robert Hyatt]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], February 21, 1999</ref>, Bionic Impakt played the [[DOCCC 1998]] with permission of the [[CSVN]].
