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a chess program by [[Valavan Manohararajah]]. Its development started from scratch in early 1996. Rajah played the [[DOCCC 1996]] and the [[Aegon 1997]], and its design, like many programs influenced by [[Chess (Program)|Chess 4.5]] <ref>[[David Slate]], [[Larry Atkin]] ('''1977'''). ''Chess 4.5 - The Northwestern University Chess Program.'' [[Chess Skill in Man and Machine]], reprinted (1988) in [[Computer Chess Compendium]]</ref>, was described in [[ICGA Journal#20_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 2]] <ref>[[Valavan Manohararajah]] ('''1997'''). ''Rajah: The Design of a Chess Program.'' [[ICGA Journal#20_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 2]], pp. 87-91</ref>. Rajah is a [[Evaluation|leaf-evaluator]] and performs no [[Piece-Square Tables#Preprocessing|pre-processing]] at the [[Root|root]] or interiour of the [[Search Tree|tree]]. Rajah was further subject of research in the author's 2001 M.Sc. thesis on [[Parallel Search|parallel alpha-beta search]] from [[University of Toronto]] <ref>[[Valavan Manohararajah]] ('''2001'''). ''Parallel Alpha-Beta Search on Shared Memory Multiprocessors''. M.Sc. thesis</ref>.

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