Surprise

a WinBoard chess engine by Sven Schüle. The first version of Surprise was already created in about 1991 on an Atari ST. The private versions 3.x, developed in 2000/2001 were the first versions playing at least acceptable chess. After a three years break, the work on Surprise was continued in 2004, with versions 4.1 as first public release in June 2004, and the final version 4.3 in October 2007. || toc =See also=
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=Forum Posts=

2004

 * [|New engine released: "Surprise 4.1"!] by Sven Schüle, Winboard Forum, June 13, 2004
 * [|Surprise-4.1.1 update released] by Sven Schüle, Winboard Forum, June 20, 2004
 * [|Surprise updated again, new version 4.1.2] by Sven Schüle, Winboard Forum, June 22, 2004
 * [|Surprise-4.1.3 released] by Sven Schüle, Winboard Forum, July 09, 2004
 * [|Surprise 4.1.4 released] by Sven Schüle, Winboard Forum, July 26, 2004
 * [|How to handle the first repetition correctly? (long)] by Sven Schüle, Winboard Forum, August 10, 2004 » Repetitions
 * [|Surprise 4.1.5 released] by Sven Schüle, Winboard Forum, August 15, 2004
 * [|Surprise 4.1.6 released] by Sven Schüle, Winboard Forum, September 19, 2004

2010 ...

 * [|Time losses with Surprise] by Luca Hemmerich, CCC, January 25, 2010
 * [|Re: New engine release: Jumbo] by Sven Schüle, CCC, September 19, 2016

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * [|Surprise - A WinBoard Chess Engine]
 * [|Index of /chess/engines/Jim Ablett/SURPRISE] by Jim Ablett, hosted by Kirill Kryukov
 * [|Surprise 4.3b13] in CCRL 40/4

Misc
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 * [|Surprise from Wikipedia]
 * [|surprise - Wiktionary]
 * Mezzoforte - [|Surprise, Garden Party], Live In Reykjavik, March 27, 2007, [|YouTube] Video

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