Jester, a chess engine written by Stéphane Nguyen in Java, distributed as helpware [1]. As Java applet, Jesper is launched from a web page and executed within a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) in a process separate from the web browser itself. Jester uses the ICS protocol [2] allowing it playing on free chess servers [3]. It played various French Computer Chess Championships and French Programmers Tournaments from 1998 until 2003.
Laughing jester [4]

Selected Games

[Event "FCCC 2002"]
[Site "Massy, FR"]
[Date "2002-10-05"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Jester 2.0"]
[Black "Chess Tiger 15"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
 
1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Bxc4 c5 6.O-O a6 7.Bb3 Nc6 8.Nc3 
cxd4 9.Nxd4 Bd7 10.e4 Qc7 11.Be3 Bd6 12.f4 Bc5 13.e5 Ng4 14.Qxg4 Nxd4 
15.Ba4 b5 16.Bd1 O-O 17.Ne4 Ba7 18.Nf6+ Kh8 19.Qh4 gxf6 20.Qxf6+ Kg8 
21.Qg5+ Kh8 22.Qf6+ Kg8 23.Qg5+ Kh8 24.Qf6+  1/2-1/2

Namesake

• Jester based on TSCP by Marty Franz ^{[6] [7]}

See also

• Comics
• Dorpsgek
• Joker by Marc-François Baudot and Jean-Christophe Weill
• Joker by Manlio Morini
• Joker by Harm Geert Muller

Forum Posts

• Jester for Download by Đorđe Vidanović, Winboard Forum, September 17, 1999
• To Stephane N B Nguyen (Jester) by ludicrous, CCC, October 07, 2002
• I Assume Jester Is Not Compiled... by Graham Laight, CCC, January 07, 2003
• Jester Program by S Nguyen by Swaminathan Natarajan, Winboard Forum, December 27, 2003

External Links

Chess engine

• LudoChess - Jester, 1.10e by Stephane N.B. Nguyen
• LudoChess - Jester, the strongest pure java chess program
• LudoChess - Les jeux d'Echecs 100% pur Java - Downloads
• The chess games of Jester from chessgames.com

Misc

• Jester from Wikipedia
• Jester (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
• Jester (Marvel Comics) from Wikipedia
• Jester (Quality Comics) from Wikipedia
• Tigran Shadow Theater - The Court Jester, Jazz à la Villette, 2013, YouTube Video
  Tigran Hamasyan, Areni Agbabian, Ben Wendel, Chris Tordini, Nate Wood, Video art by Ruben van Leer
  

References

1. ^ LudoChess - helpware
2. ^ Internet chess server - ICS protocol - Wikipedia
3. ^ Re: To Stephane N B Nguyen (Jester) by Stéphane Nguyen, CCC, October 07, 2002
4. ^ Netherlandish (possibly Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen) Laughing Fool ca. 1500 Oil on panel, Davis museum, Jester from Wikipedia
5. ^ Massy, France - 5 & 6 Oct 2002 - 9ème Championnat Français de Programmes d'Echecs
6. ^ Fixing Jester by Olivier Deville, Winboard Forum, September 19, 2010
7. ^ Jester Chess Pages

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