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'''Treefrog''',<br/>
a computer chess program written at the [[University of Waterloo]] by a team of the undergraduate students [[Ron Hansen]], [[Russell Crook]] and [[Gary Calnek]], and successor of [[Ribbit]]. Treefrog became runner up at the [[ACM 1975]], losing from [[Chess (Program)|Chess 4.4]] in the last round. It was written in [[Fortran]] and ran on a [[Honeywell 6000|Honeywell 6080]] <ref>[[Monroe Newborn|M. M. Newborn]] ('''1977'''). ''[http://www.atariarchives.org/bcc2/showpage.php?page=22 Summary of the ACM Sixth U.S. Computer Chess Championship]'', from [http://www.atariarchives.org/bcc2/index.php The Best of Creative Computing Volume 2], edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H._Ahl David Ahl], hosted by [http://www.atariarchives.org/ AtariArchives.org]</ref> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36-bit 36-bit] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainframe_computer mainframe computer].

=Authors=
* [[Gary Calnek]]
* [[Russell Crook]]
* [[Ron Hansen]]

=See also=
* [[Various Classifications#Amphibian|Amphibian]]
* [[Ribbit]]
* [[ACM 1975]]

=Publications=
* [[Ron Hansen]] ('''1977'''). ''TREEFROG: a chess program''. Master of Mathematics essay, Computer Science, [[University of Waterloo]] <ref>[[Tony Marsland]] ('''1979'''). ''A bibliography of computer chess''. [http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/%7Eshm/MI/mi9.html Machine Intelligence 9], [http://aitopics.org/sites/default/files/classic/Machine_Intelligence_9/MI9-Ch19-Marsland.pdf pdf]</ref>

=Forum Posts=
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/browse_frm/thread/a72e548b90803b83 KRBKB and ACM USCCC #6] by [[Steven Edwards|Steven J. Edwards]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], September 29, 1996

=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_frog Tree frog from Wikipedia]

=References=
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