Comet

a Chess Engine Communication Protocol compatible chess program by Ulrich Türke. Comet is written in C and therefor available for several platforms. Comet played various over the board tournaments, Aegon Tournaments, three World Microcomputer Chess Championships, 1995, 1996 and 1997, multiple International Paderborn Computer Chess Championships, CCT Tournaments, and the ICT 2002. || toc =Screenshot=
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=Description= given in 1997 from the ICGA site : > 1. > 2. > 3. > a) > b) > c)

=Selected Games= WMCCC 1997, round 11, Comet - The Crazy Bishop code [Event "WMCCC 1997"] [Site "Paris, France"] [Date "1997.11.02"] [Round "11"] [White "Comet"] [Black "The Crazy Bishop"] [Result "1-0"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5 a6 8.Na3 Be7 9.Bc4 O-O 10.Bxf6 Bxf6 11.Bd5 Rb8 12.O-O Nd4 13.Nc4 b5 14.Ne3 Bg5 15.Ne2 Bxe3 16.fxe3 Ne6 17.Ng3 Qb6 18.Qd2 Nc7 19.Bb3 Be6 20.Nf5 Bxf5 21.Rxf5 Ne8 22.Raf1 Nf6 23.Rxf6 gxf6 24.Rxf6 a5 25.Qf2 Kh8 26.Rh6 Rg8 27.Bxf7 Rg7 28.Bd5 Qd8 29.Rf6 Rc7 30.c3 b4 31.c4 a4 32.Qf5 Re7 33.Bf7 Qd7 34.Be6 Qd8 35.c5 Rg7 36.c6 a3 37.b3 Qe7 38.c7 Qxc7 39.Rf8+ Rg8 40.Bxg8 Rxf8 41.Qxf8 Qg7 42.Qxg7+ Kxg7 43.Bd5 1-0 code

=See also=
 * Astronomy

=Forum Posts=

1997 ...

 * [|Comet A.75 in test] by Jouni Uski, CCC, November 30, 1997
 * [|Comet A 82] by Fernando Villegas, CCC, January 25, 1998
 * [|Comet_against_Humans] by Ulrich Türke, CCC, May 05, 1998
 * [|Comet A90] by Thorsten Czub, CCC, May 16, 1998
 * [|Comet A.90 on Winboard] by Earl H. Castillo, CCC, August 15, 1998
 * [|New Comet B02 Version!] by Christian Goralski, CCC, May 30, 1999

2000 ...

 * [|Paderborn : A "human" pawn sac by Comet !] by Côme, CCC, February 11, 2000 » IPCCC 2000
 * [|Re: Comet B18 Whats new?] by Ulrich Türke, CCC, March 24, 2000 » Passed Pawn, Bad bishop
 * [|Comet B.31 by Dr. Ulrich Türke is available !] by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, March 10, 2001
 * [|Paderborn Comet] by Edward Seid, CCC, March 02, 2002 » IPCCC 2002
 * [|xboard/Linux version of Comet B.46 available!] by Leo Dijksman, CCC, June 10, 2002
 * [|Comet B48 under Chess Partner 5.2] by Shaun Brewer, CCC, September 13, 2002
 * [|Re: Comet 62b, where I look for it?] by Ulrich Türke, CCC, October 21, 2003
 * [|Testposition from Comet-The Baron] by Richard Pijl, CCC, February 15, 2004 » The Baron, IPCCC 2004
 * [|Re: Comet B68 a little question...] by Ulrich Türke, CCC, March 21, 2004

2005 ...

 * [|What happened to Comet?] by Fernando Villegas, CCC, December 16, 2005
 * [|OT - Comet 17P Holmes] by Charles Roberson, CCC, October 31, 2007 » Holmes
 * [|A Propos "Comet"] by Fernando Villegas, CCC, October 13, 2009

2010 ...

 * [|Comet B15, Amy 0.6 Green Light Chess 2.07a available ...] by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, February 04, 2010 » Amy, Green Light Chess
 * [|More about Comet B68] by Fernando Villegas, CCC, August 06, 2011

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * [|Comet's ICGA Tournaments]
 * [|Comet] from WBEC Ridderkerk
 * [|Index of /chess/engines/Norbert's collection/Comet (Compilation)] by Norbert Raimund Leisner, hosted by Kirill Kryukov
 * [|Comet B68] in CCRL 40/40

Comet
> [|Great Comet from Wikipedia] > [|Comet nucleus from Wikipedia] > [|Coma (cometary) from Wikipedia] > [|Comet tail from Wikipedia] > [|Comet Holmes from Wikipedia] > [|Halley's Comet from Wikipedia] > media type="custom" key="24264964"
 * [|Comet (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Comet from Wikipedia]
 * [|Lists of comets from Wikipedia]
 * [|Bill Haley & His Comets] - [|Hot Dog Buddy Buddy], from [|Don't Knock the Rock] (1956), [|YouTube] Video

=References= =What links here?= include page="Comet" component="backlinks" limit="40"
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