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a British computer chess and games programmer, publisher and entrepreneur, author of several commercial computer chess programs including Chess System Tal published through his own company Oxford Softworks. He is famous for his computer chess paradigms as an appeal for knowledge based programs. In May 2000, when Oxford Softworks was sold to a venture capitalist consortium, Chris retired from games programming.
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Chris Whittington was and is critic of the arguments that Rybka is a derivate of Fruit since Zach Wegner published his first conclusion on the Rybka/Fruit: evaluation in June 2010, and consequently critic of the ICGA decision in 2011. During the Investigation process, he was rejected to become member of the panel. || toc =Photos=
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 * Chris Whittington and Berthold Seifriz, WMCCC 1993 ||

=Chess Engines=
 * SuperChess (1982)
 * Chess Player 2150/2175 (1989)
 * Chess Simulator (1990)
 * Complete Chess System (1993)
 * Chess System Tal (Complete Chess System 2) (1995)
 * Chess System Tal II (1999)

=See also=
 * Computer Olympiad 1992 - Promotion Bug
 * WMCCC 1995 - System Tal vs XXXX

=Forum Posts=
 * [|CW and the ICCA] by Tony Marsland, rgcc, February 26, 1997 » ICCA
 * [|Formal Appeal to CCC Moderators] by Chris Whittington, rgcc, August 16, 1998
 * [|Re: La Máquina Preservadora. Programas de Ajedrez] by duct, Meca Foro, May 20, 2016 (Spanish)
 * [|AlphaZero reinvents mobility and romanticism] by Chris Whittington, Rybka Forum, December 08, 2017 » Alpha Zero's "Immortal Zugzwang Game"

Rybka Controversy

 * [|Re: What do you folks make of this ?] by Chris Whittington, OpenChess Forum, June 27, 2010
 * [|setjmp - another one] by Chris Whittington, CCC, August 27, 2008
 * [|Without the Clean Room] by Chris Whittington, Open Chess Forum, January 26, 2011

Minority Reports

 * [|Minority Report Plagiarism - Quantifying Evaluation Features] by Trotsky, Rybka Forum, July 09, 2011
 * [|Minority Report 2 - Unravelling the technical report] by Trotsky, Rybka Forum, July 22, 2011
 * [|Minority Report 3, PST + other lookup tables are they legal?] by Trotsky, Rybka Forum, July 25, 2011
 * [|Minority Report 4, How can something so trivial be copyright] by Trotsky, Rybka Forum, August 06, 2011
 * [|Minority Report 5, Not plagiarism unless feature is unique] by Trotsky, Rybka Forum, September 21, 2011

=External Links= > [|Airbase Invader - World of Spectrum]
 * [|Chris Whittington's ICGA Tournaments]
 * [|Meet the Authors] by Ed Schröder
 * [|Chris Whittington - Developer BIO] from [|MobyGames]
 * [|Chris Whittington - World of Spectrum]

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