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Rick48-v4 is a Winboard chess engine employing a revolutionary Active Space Algorithm (ASA). Unique playing style is combined with deep understanding of positional and strategic(!) subtleties. A sophisticated time management is another strong point in longer games. Rick48 outplays his opponents in an invisible way gaining frequently huge time advantage. Looks like the era of 'brute force' searchers is coming to an end.

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The latest competition at WBEC-Ridderkerk (edition 18) has confirmed Rick48's
prowess at every phase of the chess game. The program defeated the current
World Champion - Rybka 4 and many others. 23/4 game matches (tempo 40/40)
gave the score +18-2=3. Before the main tournament there was a test 'blitz' with
tempo 40/3 and the final result: Stockfish-Rybka-Rick48. The three lost only
one game each and Rick48 outplayed Stockfish. I have to add here that the 'v4'
version gave a significant handicap to the opponents. Being 64-bit, multi-threaded
application it used only one CPU what on quad computers led to remarkable speed
advantage of 2CPU-engines. An additional factor - a poor debut library - completed
the picture.