Scaramanga

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**Scaramanga**,
a [[Clones|Clone]] of [[Mark Lefler|Mark Lefler's]] program [[Now]] and "successor" of [[Almond]], both by fake author "Richard Hall" <ref>[[http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=492%3Abedrog&catid=51%3Atoernooien&Itemid=28&lang=en|Bedrog (Fraud)]] [[CSVN|CSVN site]] (Dutch), [[http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.csvn.nl%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26view%3Darticle%26id%3D492%253Abedrog%26catid%3D51%253Atoernooien%26Itemid%3D28%26lang%3Den&lp=nl_en&btnTrUrl=Translate|translated]] by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Babel_Fish|Babel Fish]]</ref>, an alleged student from [[University of Michigan]]. He asked the [[CSVN]] via [[Jan Krabbenbos]] and [[Hans Secelle]] to play the [[ICT 2010]] with //Almond// as well the [[DOCCC 2010]] with //Scaramanga//, operated by [[Hans Secelle]] who regularly contacted "Richard Hall" <ref>[[Hans Secelle]] (**2011**). //Scaramanga: het verhaal van een ontmaskering of'Het pad van een operator is met doornen geplaveid'//, [[Computerschaak]] No. 1, Feb 2011</ref>. 

[[Harvey Williamson]] raised suspicions after //Scaramanga// was connected from an Indian server at [[Playchess]], and [[Hans Secelle]] sent the source code applied to [[Don Dailey]] forwarded for confirmation to Mark Lefler.  Mark admitted he had naively shared his source code with someone who said he was named "Chinmay" who offered to run Now in a tournament with faster hardware and better compiler, and said he had operated [[Rybka]] at [[ACCA 2008]] <ref>[[http://hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3906&sid=dd922e95c6d41bfd32d5242cd7d4f2d4|Scaramanga is a Clone]] by [[Harvey Williamson]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], Dec 31, 2010</ref>.

=External Links=
* [[http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=492%3Abedrog&catid=51%3Atoernooien&Itemid=28&lang=en|Bedrog (Fraud)]] [[CSVN|CSVN site]] (Dutch), [[http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.csvn.nl%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26view%3Darticle%26id%3D492%253Abedrog%26catid%3D51%253Atoernooien%26Itemid%3D28%26lang%3Den&lp=nl_en&btnTrUrl=Translate|translated]] by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Babel_Fish|Babel Fish]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Scaramanga|Francisco Scaramanga from Wikipedia]]

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