Amy, a Chess Engine Communication Protocol aka XBoard compliant open source chess program under the GNU General Public License by Thorsten Greiner, written in C. Its development already started in 1993 on the Amiga [1], and continued on UNIX platforms, in particular FreeBSD [2]. Amy 0,6 was ported to Windows for Winboard by Dann Corbit in early 2000 [3]. Amy applies ABDADA [4] inside a NegaScout framework [5] as parallel search algorithm, further using fractional ply extensions aka the SEX Algorithm , Null Move Pruning, and Extended Futility Pruning . Amy played the WMCCC 1995 in Paderborn and various International Paderborn Computer Chess Championships.
The Seal of Amy [6]

See also

• Amyan
• Demonology
• Given Name

Forum Posts

2000

• Amy-0.6 released by Thorsten Greiner, CCC, February 04, 2000
• Amy 0,6 für Winboard by Dann Corbit, Winboard Forum, February 05, 2000
• Re: Amy and Isi at Paderborn? =( by Thorsten Greiner, CCC, February 14, 2000
• Amy-0.7 released by Thorsten Greiner, CCC, March 22, 2000
• Amy play very strong in my FQ-2 tournament ! by Frank Quisinsky, Winboard Forum, April 20, 2000
  Re: Amy play very strong in my FQ-2 tournament ! by Thorsten Greiner, Winboard Forum, April 25, 2000
• Amy Source Code Is Outstanding Re: Quality source code by Brian Richardson, CCC, November 21, 2000

2002 ...

• Great news from Thorsten Greiner: New Amy v0.8!! by Leo Dijksman, Winboard Forum, July 24, 2002
• Amy 0.8 by Jonas Cohonas, CCC, July 28, 2002
• Amy 0.8.1 by Thorsten Greiner, Winboard Forum, July 29, 2002
• Amy 0.8.4 by Thorsten Greiner, Winboard Forum, June 23, 2003
• Amy 0.8 mp x64 Windows build available by Jim Ablett, CCC, December 31, 2007

2010 ...

• Comet B15, Amy 0.6 Green Light Chess 2.07a available ... by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, February 04, 2010 » Comet, Green Light Chess

External Links

Chess Engine

• Amy's ICGA Tournaments
• tgreiner.net - Thorsten's Nifty Geeklog Site, archive.org
  Download Amy 0.8.7, archive.org
• Amy compiled by Jim Ablett, hosted by Kirill Kryukov
• Amy - a chess program for playing and analyzing games from The FreeBSD Ports Archive
• Amy 0.87b in CCRL 40/40

Misc

• Amy (given name) from Wikipedia
• Amy (disambiguation) from Wikipedia

Demonology

• Amy (demon) from Wikipedia
• Baal (demon) from Wikipedia ^[7]
  
• Pseudomonarchia Daemonum from Wikipedia
• List of demons in the Ars Goetia from Wikipedia
• Demonology from Wikipedia
• Demon from Wikipedia
• Maxwell's demon from Wikipedia
• Daemon (computing) from Wikipedia

References

1. ^ Re: Amy play very strong in my FQ-2 tournament ! by Thorsten Greiner, Winboard Forum, April 25, 2000
2. ^ Amy - a chess program for playing and analyzing games from The FreeBSD Ports Archive
3. ^ Amy 0,6 für Winboard by Dann Corbit, Winboard Forum, February 05, 2000
4. ^ Re: Deep Sjeng testers wanted by Gian-Carlo Pascutto, CCC, August 29, 2002
5. ^ Something interesting about Amy by Dann Corbit, CCC, February 05, 2000
6. ^ Amy from Demonology by Joan De La Haye
7. ^ The demon Bael from Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal, 1862

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