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The Sniper,
a chess program written by Ed Trice for the Macintosh SE with 68000 processor. The development started in 1985, and in 1987, after gradual improvements, The Sniper became a member of the United States Chess Federation (USCF), and played various USCF tournaments gaining an USCF rating of 2129 in January of 1990 ^[1]. The Sniper II has been rewritten to run on PowerPC Macintosh, and was announced with 3D and 2D chess boards, an opening book of over 8,000,000 moves, perfect endgame tactics in a pattern recognition database, and to search 120,000 positions/second on a 40 MHz Quadra 840 AV ^[2].

Forum Posts

• does anybody remember "the sniper"? by Martin Fierz, CCC, June 06, 2002

External Links

Chess Engine

• About Ed Trice: March 2009
• USCF MSA - 12528567: THE SNIPER COMPX Member Details
• Welcome To Circumflex Software Online, Wayback Machine
• Welcome to The Sniper games page, Wayback Machine
• Welcome to 'The Sniper II' Product Information Page, Wayback Machine

Misc

• Sniper (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
• Sniper from Wikipedia

References

1. ^ USCF MSA - 12528567: THE SNIPER COMPX Member Details
2. ^ Welcome to 'The Sniper II' Product Information Page, Wayback Machine

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