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Chinito (El Chinito),
a chess program by primary author Eugenio Castillo Jiménez and Pascal Tang competing the WCCC 2002 in Maastricht and the WCCC 2003 in Graz. Chinito further played various French Computer Chess Championships and Massy Tournaments, it won Massy 2002. In 2004, soon after it was found and proved Chinito contained parts of Crafty source ^[1], Eugenio admitted using Crafty, apologized and informed the ICGA and French Computer Chess Association about the issue to accept their decision and disqualification of Chinito from the played events ^[2].

Photos

Massy 2002: El Chinito vainqueur! Bernard Brioit, Pascal Tang, Eugenio Castillo, Bruno Lucas [3]

Forum Posts

• Re: Odyssey2001-Tournament: final round, first games by Thorsten Czub, CCC, January 10, 2002
• El Chinito by Swaminathan Natarajan, CCC, October 22, 2003
• ElChinito: A Crafty Clone by Paul Hunter, Winboard Forum, August 20, 2004
• Re: Correction: List and ElChinito as Crafty clones, ... etc by Paul Hunter, CCC, August 21, 2004 » List
• Re: List is NOT a Crafty clone, ... etc by Álvaro Begué, CCC, August 21, 2004
• ElChinito private, amateur or well on top tourneys? by Rolf Tüschen, CCC, August 25, 2004
• Open letter by Eugenio Castillo (ELChinito team) ... by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, August 28, 2004

External Links

• Chinito's ICGA Tournaments
• Chino from Wikipedia

References

1. ^ List is NOT a Crafty clone, ... etc by Matthias Gemuh, CCC, August 21, 2004
2. ^ Open letter by Eugenio Castillo (ELChinito team) ... by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, August 28, 2004
3. ^ Massy 2002's chess programs tournament by Stéphane Nguyen

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