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**Innovation**,
a chess program by [[Jeff Mallett]], written in [[C]]. Innovation played the [[WMCCC 1991]] in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver|Vancouver]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada|Canada]],  the [[ACM 1993]], and as Innovation II, running on an [[PowerPC]]  [[Macintosh|Mac]], the [[ACM 1994]] <ref>[[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6cceea|The 24th ACM International Computer Chess Championship]] from [[The Computer History Museum]], [[http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1994_24th_ICCC/1994%20ICCC.062303013.sm.pdf|pdf]]</ref>. Innovation was incorporated in commercial chess teaching products such as //Maurice Ashley Teaches Chess// <ref>[[http://www.thechessdrum.net/MAshleyCD.html|Maurice Ashley Teaches Chess - Review]] by [[http://www.thechessdrum.net/blog/author/admin/|Daaim Shabazz]]</ref>, and //[[Eric Schiller|Dr. Schiller's Chess Game & How to Play Chess]]// <ref>[[http://www.zillions-of-games.com/whoarewe.html|Zillions of Games - Who Are We?]]</ref>.

=Description= 
from [[Don Beal|Don Beal's]] [[WMCCC 1991]] report <ref>[[Don Beal]] (**1991**). //Report on the [[WMCCC 1991|11th World Microcomputer Chess Championship]]//. [[ICGA Journal#14_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2]]</ref> :
|| {{Written by Jeff Mallett, a newcomer to the computer-chess scene, it has been in full-time development for a year. It has some unusual features which include: not using [[Iterative Deepening|iterative deepening]], never [[Evaluation|evaluate]] statically - obtaining all evaluation scores by [[Incremental Updates|incremental changes]] as [[Make Move|moves are made]], only looking at newly available moves in the final stages of the [[Quiescence Search|quiescence search]], and estimating an "attack factor" distinct from the regular evaluation.}} ||

=Selected Games=
[[WMCCC 1991]], round 3, Innovation - [[Centaur]] <ref>[[http://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/round.php?tournament=59&round=3&id=4|Vancouver 1991 - Chess - Round 3 - Game 4 (ICGA Tournaments)]]</ref>
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[Event "WMCCC 1991"]
[Site "Vancouver, Canada"]
[Date "1991.01.01"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Innovation"]
[Black "Centaur"]
[Result "1-0"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.cxd5 exd5 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Bg5 Bb4 6.a3 Bxc3+ 7.bxc3 h6 8.Bf4 Ne4 9.e3 c6 
10.Ne2 g5 11.Bxb8 Rxb8 12.f3 Nd6 13.Qa4 a6 14.h4 gxh4 15.Qb3 Bd7 16.Nf4 b5 17.Bd3 Qe7 
18.Kd2 h5 19.Rae1 Rg8 20.e4 Nc4+ 21.Kd1 Be6 22.exd5 cxd5 23.Nxd5 Qd8 24.Nf4 Qd6 25.Nxe6 
fxe6 26.Bxc4 bxc4 27.Rxe6+ Kf7 28.Rxd6 cxb3 29.Rd7+ Kf8 30.Rd5 Rxg2 31.Rxh5 Rc8 32.Rh8+ 
Rg8 33.Rxg8+ Kxg8 34.Kd2 Rf8 35.Rxh4 Rxf3 36.Rh2 b2 37.Kc2 Rxc3+ 38.Kxb2 Rd3 39.Rg2+ Kf7 
40.Rg4 Kf6 41.a4 a5 42.Rf4+ Ke6 43.Ka2 Re3 44.Rf8 Rc3 45.Ra8 Rc4 46.Rxa5 Kd6 47.Ka3 
Rxd4 48.Rb5 Rc4 49.a5 Ke6 50.a6 Rc7 51.Rb7 Rc8 52.a7 Ra8 53.Kb4 Kd5 54.Ka5 Ke4 55.Kb6 
Rf8 56.Re7+ Kf4 57.Kb7 Kg3 58.a8=Q Rxa8 59.Kxa8 Kf4 60.Kb7 Kg5 61.Rf7 Kh5 62.Rg7 Kh6 
63.Rg8 Kh7 64.Rg1 1-0
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=External Links= 
==Chess Progam==
* [[http://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=311|Innovation's ICGA Tournaments]]
==Misc==
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation_%28disambiguation%29|Innovation (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation|Innovation from Wikipedia]]

=References= 
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