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=Checkers=
'''Colossus Draughts''' won the [[2nd Computer Olympiad#Checkers|2nd Computer Olympiad]] in [[Checkers]] with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_%28draughts_player%29 Chinook] by [[Jonathan Schaeffer]] et al. competing as well. Colossus was well prepared, since Checkers expert Martin Bryant recognized a weak opening move by Chinook played against another program one round before - which nevertheless could not find the refutation and lost,
and added the winning refutation inside Colossus' opening book <ref>[[Jonathan Schaeffer]] ('''1997'''). ''One Jump Ahead''. 11. I Feel Like a Teenager Again, pp. 174</ref>. Martin Bryant later accepted the offer to trade Colossus' huge opening book for Chinook's six-piece databases and therefore helped Chinook to become ''The World Man-Machine Checkers Champion'', and subsequently the offer to join the Chinook development team <ref>[[Jonathan Schaeffer]], [[Rob Lake]], [[Paul Lu]], [[Martin Bryant]] ('''1996'''). ''[https://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/1208 Chinook: The World Man-Machine Checkers Champion]''. [[AAAI#AIMAG|AI Magazine]], Vol. 17, No. 1</ref> <ref>[http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~chinook/authors/ Authors - Chinook - World Man-Machine Checkers Champion]</ref>.
=Colossus Chess UCI=
