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**Bionic**, (**B**elieve **i**t **o**r **n**ot **i**t's [[Checkmate|checkmate]])
a chess program written in [[Basic]] by [[Hans Secelle]] during the early 90s. Bionic participated at four [[Dutch Open Computer Chess Championship|Dutch Open Computer Chess Championships]], [[DOCCC 1994|1994]], [[DOCCC 1995|1995]], [[DOCCC 1996|1996]] and [[DOCCC 1997|1997]], and three [[Aegon Tournaments]], [[Aegon 1995|1995]], [[Aegon 1996|1996]] and [[Aegon 1997|1997]]. While Bionic was a slow searcher, it was an attempt of a knowledgeable program. 

=Bionic Impakt=
Bionic's [[C]]-successor [[Bionic Impakt]], which played the [[DOCCC 1998]], was based on [[Crafty]] <ref>[[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/msg/bb5b443496ea75fd|Re: Chess programming]] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], June 18, 2002</ref> with [[Evaluation function|evaluation functions]] such as [[Piece-Square Tables|piece squares]], [[Attacks|attack heuristics]], [[Oracle|root-evaluation]], as well as the [[Opening Book|opening book]] and [[Time Management|time controls]] incorporated from Bionic <ref>[[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=40574|Bionic vs Crafty, once again]] by [[Đorđe Vidanović]], [[CCC]], January 23, 1999</ref>. 

=See also=
* [[Various Classifications#Acronym|Acronym]]
* [[Bionic Impakt]]

=External Links= 
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionic_%28disambiguation%29|Bionic (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionics|Bionics from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionic_%28software%29|Bionic libc]] [[C]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_standard_library|standard library from Wikipedia]], [[Android]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionic_%28Christina_Aguilera_album%29|Bionic (Christina Aguilera album) from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionic_architecture|Bionic architecture from Wikipedia]]

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