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The Hopeless Case ^[1]

Hopeless, (Hopeless Chess)
an open source chess engine by Pawel Koziol, written in Pascal using WBUnit by Maciej Szmit for WinBoard compliance. Early versions were incorporated inside the stand-alone chess program Clericus written in Delphi, featuring an own GUI ^[2]. Hopeless played the PCCC 2006. In 2020 Hopeless and Clericus were revived by Roland Chastain, using Free Pascal and Lazarus ^[3].

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 '''Hopeless''', (Hopeless Chess)<br/>
-a Winboard compliant [[:Category:Open Source|open source chess engine]] by [[Pawel Koziol]], written in [[Pascal]], early versions were incorporated inside the stand-alone chess program [[Clericus]] written in [[Delphi]], featuring an own [[GUI]] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14880 hopeless chess / clericus release] by [[Pawel Koziol]], [[CCC]], July 05, 2007</ref>.
+an [[:Category:Open Source|open source chess engine]] by [[Pawel Koziol]], written in [[Pascal]] using ''WBUnit'' by [[Maciej Szmit]] for [[WinBoard]] compliance. Early versions were incorporated inside the stand-alone chess program [[Clericus]] written in [[Delphi]], featuring an own [[GUI]] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14880 hopeless chess / clericus release] by [[Pawel Koziol]], [[CCC]], July 05, 2007</ref>.
 Hopeless played the [[PCCC 2006]]. In 2020 Hopeless and Clericus were revived by [[Roland Chastain]], using [[Pascal#FreePascal|Free Pascal]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_(IDE) Lazarus] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=74648 Clericus/Hopeless ported to Lazarus] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], August 01, 2020</ref>.