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a chess program by [[Vladimir Rybinkin]] and [[Yuri Shpeer]] written in [[8086]] [[Assembly]] to run under [[MS-DOS]] on [[IBM PC|PCs]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=279436 Re: Mirage chess by Yuri Shpeer & Vladimir Rybinkin] by [[Sergei Markoff|Sergei S. Markoff]], [[CCC]], January 25, 2003</ref>, famous for its at times discontinuous, possibly [[Depth#FractionalPlies|fractional]] [[Depth|depth]] increments in [[Iterative Deepening|iterative deepening]] <ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess.computer/24sL-_prZzw/7vEW3Fe6v9sJ Re;Iterative Deepening] by [[Tom King]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], June 27, 1997</ref>.
During the mid 90s, Mirage was some years commercial, and later became freeware <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=88342 New Mirage] by [[Đorđe Vidanović]], [[CCC]], January 13, 2000</ref>.
In the late 90s some code units from Mirage were incorporated into [[Centaur]] <ref>[https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=57 Centaur's ICGA Tournaments]</ref> by [[Victor Vikhrev]] and [[Alexey Manjakhin]], which further evolved to the [[Dragon (Chess Assistant)|Dragon]] analysis engine of [[ChessOK|Convekta's]] [[Chess Assistant]] database <ref>[http://chessok.com/?page_id=19894 Chess Assistant] - [[ChessOK]]</ref> <ref>[http://forum.ixbt.com/topic.cgi?id=26:39751-20#308 Заставить работать машину клиента! Конференция] by [[20Vladimir Rybinkin]] - , [http://forum.ixbt.com/ Конференция iXBT.com], September 01, 2009</ref>. Mirage was further incorporated inside a Russian [[Dedicated Chess Computers|dedicated chess computer]] [[Debut-M]] with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K1810BM86 K1810BM86] processor <ref>[http://www.hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7967 DEBYUT-M] by IvenGO, [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], July 11, 2016</ref>.
=Tournament Play=
Mirage 2.07 under [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOSBox DOSBox] <ref>[http://lechiquier-orseen.pagesperso-orange.fr/DOS_Oldies/les_oldies.html les oldies] from [http://lechiquier-orseen.pagesperso-orange.fr/index.html Page d'acceuil du club echecs de bures sur yvette] by [[Nicolas Normand]]</ref>
=Photos & Selected Games=
==WMCCC 1993==
[[WMCCC 1993]], round 7, [[Mirage]] - [[Ulysses]] <ref>[https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/round.php?tournament=57&round=7&id=11 Munich 1993 - Chess - Round 7 - Game 11 (ICGA Tournaments)]</ref>
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... and Sofia Polgar smiling after Mirage "offered" the Queen with 45.Qc2 <ref>Image capture from the [[Aegon 1997#Video|Aegon 1997 Video]] @ 22:02 </ref>
=Dedicated Namesakes=
* [http://www.spacious-mind.com/html/mirage_modular_board.html Mephisto Mirage Modular Board Electronic Chess Computer] from [[The Spacious Mind]]
* [http://www.spacious-mind.com/html/module_mirage.html Mephisto Module Mirage] from [[The Spacious Mind]]
* [http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Excalibur_Mirage [Excalibur Mirage]] by [[Ron Nelson]], from [http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Hauptseite_En Schachcomputer.info Wiki] (German)* [http://www.ismenio.com/chess_excalibur_mirage.html Excalibur Mirage] from [http://www.ismenio.com/chess_computers.html ChessComputers.org]
=Forum Posts=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirage_%28aircraft%29 Mirage (aircraft) from Wikipedia]
* [http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/09/23/now-you-see-chess-now-you-dont/ Mirage Portable Chess Set by Pengtao Yu » Yanko Design]
* [[:Category:Billy Cobham|The Billy Cobham Band]] - Mirage, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/606_Club 606 Club], ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Two BBC2Focused_(album) Focused], early 90s1999), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: feat.: [[:Category:Randy Brecker|Randy Brecker]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Husband Gary Husband], [https://www.linkedin.com/pub/carl-orr/19/262/8a2 Carl Orr], [http://www.summerjazz-hilden.de/musiker/stefan_rademacher/stefan_rademacher.html Stefan Rademacher]
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N2xxrVJ55A0Rwiqa_kvck|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
=References=
