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a free chess engine by Will Singleton written in C. Amateur's primary platform was the Macintosh, it was early used as engine for the Fixation internet chess interface. In July 2002 Version 2.0 was released compatible with the Chess Engine Communication Protocol. Amateur's version history indicates the use of null move pruning in conjunction with multi-cut. Amateur played multiple online tournaments such as the CCT Tournaments at FICS and ICC.
 * Amateur**,

=History= Amateur is a development of a program already written in 1977 in 6502 assembly, then expanded in 1986 on the 68000 :

In 2002 Will released a WinBoard version, also mentioning starting from scratch again :

=Forum Posts=
 * [|Has this name been used before?] by Willie Wood, CCC, December 12, 1997
 * [|Winboard for the Mac] by Willie Wood, CCC, January 22, 1998
 * [|Under 2600 Club] by Will Singleton, CCC, December 07, 1998
 * [|amateur experiment] by Will Singleton, CCC, March 26, 2000
 * [|New versions of Fixation and Amateur released] by Will Singleton, CCC, August 29, 2000
 * [|Re: Amateur new winboard engine] by Will Singleton, CCC, July 12, 2002

=External Links=
 * [|Amateur] from WBEC Ridderkerk
 * [|Fixation: Amateur Chess Engine]
 * [|Amateur from Wikipedia]
 * [|amateur - Wiktionary]
 * [|Amateur Chess Organization]

=References= =What links here?= include page="Amateur" component="backlinks" limit="60"
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