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a Chess Engine Communication Protocol compatible chess engine by Roland Pfister, later versions were UCI compliant, featuring a parallel search and own endgame bitbases, and were able to play Chess960. Patzer is famous for solving the Behting Study and a special draw heuristic for checking sequences. Patzer was available as Young Talent by ChessBase running under the Fritz6 GUI.
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=Tournament Play= Patzer played the WMCCC 1996 in [|Jakarta], the WMCCC 1997 in [|Paris], the WCCC 1999 in [|Paderborn], and the Chess960CWC 2005 and Chess960CWC 2006 in [|Mainz]. Further, Patzer was active over the board at IPCCCs, the 5th Spanish Open Computer Chess Championship, Dutch Open Computer Chess Championships, International CSVN Tournaments, and the BELCT 2001.

=Descriptions=

1997


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1999


=Photos=
 * [[image:FrankRoland.jpg width="570" link="http://www.quarkchess.de/csvn2001/body_index.html"]] ||
 * Patzer team Frank Quisinsky and Roland Pfister at ICT 2001 ||

=Namesake=
 * Patzer by Werner Koch and Thomas Schäfer

=Forum Posts=

1998 ...

 * [|Yes, Patzer really seem to be quite something...] by Fernando Villegas, CCC, June 07, 1998
 * [|Diepeveen Attack !] by Frank Quisinsky, Winboard Forum, November 11, 1999

2000 ...

 * [|Patzer] by Ingo Bauer, CCC, April 23, 2001
 * [|Re: 1 Hour CCR Test by IM Larry Kaufmann / Patzer 3.51] by Roland Pfister, CCC, May 11, 2001 » CCR One Hour Test
 * [|Goliath Light, Gromit, Patzer, SOS, etc. commercially sold] by Theo van der Storm, CCC, August 28, 2001
 * [|Is there a Tournament book for Patzer?] by Günther Simonr, Winboard Forum, December 05, 2001
 * [|Patzer 3.61 UCI vs 3.11 CB = 23 - 15] by Brice Boissel, Winboard Forum, April 08, 2003
 * [|Patzer_299zt] by Telmo Escobar, Winboard Forum, October 18, 2003
 * [|Any programs besides Yace and Patzer that can use bitbase files] by Dann Corbit, CCC, June 17, 2004 » Endgame Bitbases, Yace

2010 ...

 * [|STS [1-10 Patzer 3.80]] by Swaminathan, CCC, July 06, 2010 » Strategic Test Suite

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * [|Patzer's ICGA Tournaments]
 * [|Patzer 3.80], [|Wayback Machine]
 * [|Meet the Authors - PATZER,  Roland Pfister] hosted by Ed Schröder
 * [|Patzer 3.80] in CCRL 40/40

Misc
> [|patzer - Wiktionary]
 * [|Patzer - Wiktionary]
 * [|Patzer - derogatory description] from [|Chess.com]
 * [|Patzer Opening - Chess Opening Database]

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