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Waxman 1.1 ^[1]

Waxman,
also known as Pocket Chess for Windows, is a shareware chess program by Ivan Bacigal from the 90s, Waxman 1.1 in 1991 as MS-DOS engine, Waxman 1.2w in 1992 running under Windows. In 2008, Waxman became Chess Engine Communication Protocol compatible ^[2]. The program uses 10x12 board representation, incremental attack updates, alpha-beta search with iterative deepening, aspiration window, killer moves and refutation moves, history heuristic - all pretty cutting-edge back in 1990. Later on, Ivan Bacigal added null move pruning and tried several types of futility pruning. The newer WinBoard versions also use internal iterative deepening and late move reductions. Waxman's name resembles the Russian word for chess Шахмат, while its original name was VaxMan, an attempt to camouflage the program as a DEC VAX management utility ^[3].

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Waxman 1.2 Windows Screen

Waxman from Wikipedia
Franz Waxman - Theme, Variations and Fugato, Original Soundtrack from Crime in the Streets, 1956, YouTube Video

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 ==Misc==
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waxman Waxman from Wikipedia]
-* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Waxman Franz Waxman] - Theme, Variations and Fugato : Variations I, II, III, IV & Fugato ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_Streets Crime in the Streets], 1956), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Waxman Franz Waxman] - Theme, Variations and Fugato, Original Soundtrack from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_Streets Crime in the Streets], 1956, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
-: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy-brVhwLE4|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
+: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2iJzo6zJNg|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
 =References=