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|| [[image:awesome-red01.JPG width="258" height="193" link="http://urukrama.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/first-steps-with-awesome-window-manager/"]] ||~   || **Awesome**,
a [[WinBoard]] compliant chess engine by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_titles#FIDE_Master_.28FM.29|Fide Master]] and former Australian Postal champion [[Bill Jordan]] <ref> [[http://www.chess-tuition.com/|Chess Tuition]] by [[Bill Jordan]]</ref> , first released in April 2001. Awesome played the [[NC3 2003]], [[NC3 2004]], [[NC3 2005]] and [[NC3 2006]] [[Australasian National Computer Chess Championship|Australasian National Computer Chess Championships]]. ||
|| Awesome <ref>[[http://urukrama.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/first-steps-with-awesome-window-manager/|First steps with Awesome window manager « urukrama’s weblog]], July 10, 2008</ref> ||~   ||^   ||
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=Description= 
from the Awesome site by [[Bill Jordan]] <ref>[[http://www.chess-tuition.com/awesome.html|Awesome Chess Program]]</ref>
|| {{On and off over the years I have experimented with my chess playing program (Awesome). It is written in [[Cpp|Borland C++]] and was written entirely from scratch with many original approaches.}}

{{Awesome examines only a few [[Moves|moves]] compared with most chess engines, but sees quite deeply, thanks to good [[Move Ordering|move ordering]] and other factors. In a one minute [[Chess Game|game]], it is sometimes able to store every position examined in a game, in the [[Transposition Table|hash table]]. It some ways it emulates the way a human player thinks. One of my aims is to make the [[Search Tree|search tree]] as small as possible (without losing any effectiveness).}} ||

=See also=
* [[Bills Bare Bones Chess]]

=Forum Posts= 
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24040|Awesome 1.72 by Bill Jordan with Arena-GUI (WB)]] by [[Norbert Raimund Leisner]], [[CCC]], September 28, 2008

=External Links= 
* [[http://www.chess-tuition.com/awesome.html|Awesome Chess Program]]
* [[http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~shaun/chess/NC32004_-_List_of_Entries.html|NC3 2004 - List of Entries]]
* [[http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~shaun/chess/NC32005_-_List_of_Entries.html|NC3 2005 - List of Entries]]
* [[http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~shaun/chess/NC32006_-_List_of_Entries.html|NC3 2006 - List of Entries]]
* [[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/awesome|awesome - Wiktionary]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awesome_%28window_manager%29|awesome (window manager) from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Axis_of_Awesome|The Axis of Awesome]] - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Axis_of_Awesome#Four_Chords_Song|4 Four Chord Song]], 2009 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_International_Comedy_Festival|Melbourne International Comedy Festival]]
> Footage courtesy of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Ten|Network Ten Australia]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube|YouTube]] Video
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=References= 
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