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Waxman,
also known as Pocket Chess for Windows, is a shareware chess program by Ivan Bacigal from the 90s, made in 2008 Chess Engine Communication Protocol compatible to run under the WinBoard GUI ^[1]. Waxmax uses 10x12 board representation, incremental attack updates, alpha-beta search with iterative deepening, aspiration window, killer and refutation moves, history heuristic - all pretty cutting-edge back in 1990. Later on, Ivan added null move pruning and tried several types of futility pruning before settling on razoring. Waxman's name resembles the Russian word for chess Шахмат, while its original name was VaxMan, an attempt to camouflage the program as a DEC VAX management utility ^[2].

Screenshot

Waxman GUI [3]

Forum Posts

• Waxman Pocket Chess v1.3w by Fred, rgcc, May 11, 2002
• A blast from the past: WAXMAN by Mike Scheidl, CCC, December 11, 2008

External Links

Chess Program

• WAXMAN | WinBoard Chess Engine by Ivan Bacigal
• Waxman : Check-Tech Software : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
• Waxman chess engine with WinBoard | View from the Potting Shed

Misc

• Franz Waxman from Wikipedia
• Henry Waxman from Wikipedia
• Samuel Waxman from Wikipedia
• Seth P. Waxman from Wikipedia

References

1. ^ WAXMAN | WinBoard Chess Engine by Ivan Bacigal
2. ^ WAXMAN | WinBoard Chess Engine by Ivan Bacigal - F A Q
3. ^ Septober - Computerschach by Herbert Marquardt

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