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|| [[image:Raja_Ravi_Varma_-_Sankaracharya.jpg width="193" height="262" link="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Raja_Ravi_Varma_-_Sankaracharya.jpg"]] ||~   || **Chess Guru**,
a chess program designed and written by [[Joël Rivat]]. It was runner up at the [[FCCC 1995|1995 French Computer Chess Championship]] (behind [[Virtua Chess]]), and won the [[FCCC 1996|1996 French Computer Chess Championship]]. Chess Guru further competed at the [[WMCCC 1997]]. ||
|| [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Shankara|Adi Shankara]] with Disciples <ref>Srimad Guru Adi Shankaracharya, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Shankara|Adi Shankara]] with disciples, by [[Arts#Varma|Raja Ravi Varma]], 1904</ref> ||~   ||^   ||
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=Description= 
given in 1997 from the [[ICGA]] tournament page <ref>[[http://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=11|Chess Guru's ICGA Tournaments]]</ref> :
|| {{A first Chess program was written by C. Marche, G. Le Blanc, and J. Rivat in 1990. With this experience, J. Rivat rewrote everything using [[Bitboards|bitboards]]. After [[Robert Hyatt]] started using bitboards too, long discussions on ics and sharing new ideas permitted to improve considerably the technique.}}

{{Chess Guru is a 64 bits intensive program and performs poorly on 32 bits computers. The search algorithm is using [[Principal Variation Search|PVS]] with [[Null Move Pruning|nullmove]], [[Transposition Table|Extended Transposition Table]], [[Refutation Table]], [[Internal Iterative Deepening]], several classical [[Extensions|extensions]] schemes (like [[Check Extensions|incheck extension]], [[Recapture Extensions|recaptures]]). The [[Evaluation|evaluation]] includes development, [[Mobility|mobility]], [[Pawn Structure|pawn structure]] and [[King Safety|king safety]] .}} ||

=See also= 
* [[Various Classifications#Magic|Magic]]
* [[Various Classifications#Metaphysics|Metaphysics]]

=External Links= 
==Chess Engine==
* [[http://chessguru.free.fr/|Chess Guru]] (French)
* [[http://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=11|Chess Guru's ICGA Tournaments]]
==Guru==
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_%28disambiguation%29|Guru (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru|Guru from Wikipedia]]
*  [[Videos#GuruGuru|Guru Guru]] / [[Videos#KlausSchulze|Klaus Schulze]] - French TV 1973,  [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube|YouTube]] Video
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