Jester

a chess engine written by Stéphane Nguyen in Java, distributed as [|helpware]. As [|Java applet], Jesper is launched from a [|web page] and executed within a [|Java Virtual Machine (JVM)] in a process separate from the [|web browser] itself. Jester uses the ICS protocol allowing it playing on free chess servers. It played various French Computer Chess Championships and French Programmers Tournaments from 1998 until 2003. || toc =Selected Games= FCCC 2002, round 6, Jester 2.0 - Chess Tiger 15 code [Event "FCCC 2002"] [Site "Massy, FR"] [Date "2002-10-05"] [Round "6"] [White "Jester 2.0"] [Black "Chess Tiger 15"] [Result "1/2-1/2"]
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 * [[image:Laughing_Fool.jpg link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Laughing_Fool.jpg"]] ||~ || **Jester**,
 * Laughing jester ||~ ||^ ||

1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Bxc4 c5 6.O-O a6 7.Bb3 Nc6 8.Nc3 cxd4 9.Nxd4 Bd7 10.e4 Qc7 11.Be3 Bd6 12.f4 Bc5 13.e5 Ng4 14.Qxg4 Nxd4 15.Ba4 b5 16.Bd1 O-O 17.Ne4 Ba7 18.Nf6+ Kh8 19.Qh4 gxf6 20.Qxf6+ Kg8 21.Qg5+ Kh8 22.Qf6+ Kg8 23.Qg5+ Kh8 24.Qf6+ 1/2-1/2 code

=Namesake=
 * Jester based on TSCP by Marty Franz

=See also=
 * Comics
 * Dorpsgek
 * Joker by Marc-François Baudot and Jean-Christophe Weill
 * Joker by Manlio Morini
 * Joker by Harm Geert Muller

=Forum Posts=
 * [|Jester for Download] by Đorđe Vidanović, Winboard Forum, September 17, 1999
 * [|To Stephane N B Nguyen (Jester)] by ludicrous, CCC, October 07, 2002
 * [|I Assume Jester Is Not Compiled...] by Graham Laight, CCC, January 07, 2003
 * [|Jester Program by S Nguyen] by Swaminathan Natarajan, Winboard Forum, December 27, 2003

=External Links=

Chess engine

 * [|LudoChess - Jester, 1.10e by Stephane N.B. Nguyen]
 * [|LudoChess - Jester, the strongest pure java chess program]
 * [|LudoChess - Les jeux d'Echecs 100% pur Java - Downloads]
 * [|The chess games of Jester] from [|chessgames.com]

Misc
> Tigran Hamasyan, [|Areni Agbabian], [|Ben Wendel], [|Chris Tordini], [|Nate Wood], Video art by [|Ruben van Leer] > media type="custom" key="25502774"
 * [|Jester from Wikipedia]
 * [|Jester (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Jester (Marvel Comics) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Jester (Quality Comics) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Tigran Shadow Theater] - [|The Court Jester], [|Jazz à la Villette, 2013], [|YouTube] Video

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