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'''The King''',<br/>
a chess program by [[Johan de Koning]] written in [[C]], which had its debut at the [[DOCCC 1987|7th Dutch Computer Chess Championship 1987]] and was further developed, participating at computer chess [[Tournamentsand Matches|tournaments]] until the present, in total winning four [[Dutch Open Computer Chess Championship|Dutch Computer Chess Championships]] and one [[International CSVN Tournament]], the [[DOCCC 1991]], [[DOCCC 1993]], [[DOCCC 1995]], [[DOCCC 1998]], and the [[ICT 2003]].
The King, famous for "his" interesting and entertaining playing style, was commercially market by [[TASC]] as [[ChessMachine]], in bundle with [[Gideon]], running on an [[ARM2]] RISC CPU. ChessMachine The King was shared winner of the [[4th Computer Olympiad|4th Computer Olympiad 1992]] and had good results at the [[WMCCC 1990]] and [[WMCCC 1991]], further ported for various [[Dedicated Chess Computers|dedicated chess computers]], most notably [[TASC R30]], [[TASC R40]], [[Saitek]] [[RISC 2500]] and [[Mephisto Montreux]], and was also incorporated as analysis engine of [[TascBase]]. However, Johan de Koning's greatest commercial success was entering the [[IBM PC|PC]] and [[Windows]] mass market, when in 1994 The King became the chess engine of [[Chessmaster|Chessmaster 4000]] <ref>[[Mads Brevik]] ('''1994'''). ''[http://www.ibiblio.org/GameBytes/issue18/greviews/chess/chess.html Chessmaster 4000 Turbo for Windows from Mindscape]''. [http://www.ibiblio.org/GameBytes/issue18/editor/pub.html Game Bytes Magazine]</ref> , which remains the best-selling chess franchise in history <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chessmaster Chessmaster from Wikipedia]</ref> <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=117882 Re: Why is Chessmaster so popular in CCC?] by [[John Merlino]], [[CCC]], July 05, 2000</ref> .
