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Virtua Chess

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=Description=
given in 1995 from the [[ICGA]] site <ref>[https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=13 Virtua Chess' ICGA Tournaments] together with [[Virtual Chess]]</ref>:
VirtuaChess is the commercial version of the [[Écume]] and [[Cumulus|Cumulus 2]] chess programs (which finished second in the blitz tournament in Munich and which tied 2nd/3rd in the [[WCCC 1992|7th World Championships in Madrid]]). It runs on a [[IBM PC|PC]] with [[MS-DOS]] and can use all of the available memory for its [[Transposition Table|hash tables]]. It has a splendid graphical interface written by the French firm [[Titus]] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Software Titus Software]</ref>. Most of the chess engine is written in 32 bit assembler, and the program includes dynamic [[Evaluation|evaluation]] of [[King Safety|king safety]] and [[Pawn Structure|pawn structure]]. It is based on [[Principal Variation Search|PVS]] and uses [[Null Move Pruning|null-move pruning]]. The program has perfect knowledge of [[KPK]] endgames. The evaluation function attempts to build plans whenever it recognizes important features in a position. VirtuaChess runs at 20,000 [[Nodes per Second|nodes per second ]] on a Pentium 90.
=Selected Games=
Rc2 58.Kf3 a3 59.Rb6+ Kg5 60.Nhg7 Be1 61.Ne6+ Bxe6 62.Rb2 axb2 63.Nd4 Rf2# 0-1
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[https://lichess.org/LeMo6uv0 View this game on Lichess.org]
=See also=
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=13 Virtua Chess' ICGA Tournaments] with [[Virtual Chess]]
* [http://recherche.enac.fr/~weill/chess.html A Short Story of JCW's Computer Chess Program] by [[Jean-Christophe Weill]]
* Virtua Chess - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnxzCOxwjjs|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
=References=
'''[[Engines|Up one Level]]'''
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