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**Patsoc**,
a computer chess program by [[Hans Berliner]] written in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLISS|BLISS 36]] <ref>[[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6c8af8|The Fourth World Computer Chess Championship]] (labeled 22nd ACM), [[http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1983_WCCC/1983-%20WCCC.062303061.sm.pdf|pdf]] from [[The Computer History Museum]], [[http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/%7Ekopec/Publications/Publications/O_36_C.pdf|pdf]] from [[Danny Kopec]]</ref>, which played the [[WCCC 1983]] in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City|New York]], running on a [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] [[PDP-10]] with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36-bit|36 bit]] word length. Patsoc first implemented the evaluation feature of the [[Doubled Pawn#CrippledMajority|crippled majority]] with [[Doubled Pawn|doubled pawns]] involved <ref>[[Hans Berliner]] (**1987**). //Some Innovations Introduced by Hitech//. [[ICGA Journal|ICCA Journal]], Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 111-117</ref>. Nevertheless, Patsoc is the acronym of "Plays a terrible sort of Chess" <ref>[[Harold Bogner]] (**1984**). //[[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6cf749|The New Champion]]//. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_Life|Chess Life]], February 1984, [[http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3.Chess_Life.The_New_Champion.Bogner.Feb-1984/Chess_Life.The_New_Champion.Bogner.Feb-1984.062303068.sm.pdf|pdf]] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>.

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

=Selected Publications=
* [[Hans Berliner]] (**1985**). //Computer Chess at Carnegie Mellon University//. [[Advances in Computer Chess 4]]
* [[Hans Berliner]] (**1987**). //Some Innovations Introduced by Hitech//. [[ICGA Journal|ICCA Journal]], Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 111-117

=External Links=
* [[http://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=415|Patsoc's ICGA Tournaments]]

=References= 
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