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a chess program written by Ed Trice for the Macintosh SE with 68000 processor. The development started in 1985, and in 1987, after gradual improvements, The Sniper became a member of the [|United States Chess Federation] (USCF), and played various USCF tournaments gaining an [|USCF rating] of 2129 in January of 1990. **The Sniper II** has been rewritten to run on PowerPC [|Macintosh], and was announced with 3D and 2D chess boards, an opening book of over 8,000,000 moves, perfect endgame tactics in a pattern recognition database, and to search 120,000 positions/second on a 40 MHz [|Quadra 840 AV].
 * The Sniper**,

=Forum Posts=
 * [|does anybody remember "the sniper"?] by Martin Fierz, CCC, June 06, 2002

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * [|About Ed Trice: March 2009]
 * [|USCF MSA - 12528567: THE SNIPER COMPX Member Details]
 * [|Welcome To Circumflex Software Online], [|Wayback Machine]
 * [|Welcome to The Sniper games page], [|Wayback Machine]
 * [|Welcome to 'The Sniper II' Product Information Page], [|Wayback Machine]

Misc

 * [|Sniper (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Sniper from Wikipedia]

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