Stobor

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|| [[image:256px-Brooklyn_Museum_-_Here_Comes_the_Bogey-Man_(Que_viene_el_Coco)_-_Francisco_de_Goya_y_Lucientes.jpg link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brooklyn_Museum_-_Here_Comes_the_Bogey-Man_%28Que_viene_el_Coco%29_-_Francisco_de_Goya_y_Lucientes_crop.jpg"]] ||~   || **Stobor**,
a private chess engine by [[Tom Kerrigan]], reportedly commercially available under a different name(s) <ref>[[http://www.tckerrigan.com/Chess/Stobor|Stobor from Tom Kerrigan's Home Page]] - Commercial use</ref> . It's named after the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogeyman|bogeyman]] character in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein|Robert Heinlein's]] book, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_in_the_Sky|Tunnel in the Sky]] <ref>[[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/11/beware-of-stobor-robert-a-heinleins-tunnel-in-the-sky|Beware of stobor!: Robert A. Heinlein’s Tunnel in the Sky]] review by [[http://www.tor.com/Jo%20Walton#filter|Jo Walton]], November 14, 2011</ref> . Stobor is also "Robots" spelled backwards. 

Stobor played two [[World Microcomputer Chess Championship|World Microcomputer Chess Championship]], the [[WMCCC 1995]] in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paderborn|Paderborn]] and the [[WMCCC 1997]] in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris|Paris]], and further the [[IPCCC 1997]] <ref>[[http://www.tckerrigan.com/Chess/Stobor/Paderborn+1997|Paderborn 1997 - Tom Kerrigan's Home Page]]</ref>. ||
|| The Bogey-Man is coming <ref>[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brooklyn_Museum_-_Here_Comes_the_Bogey-Man_%28Que_viene_el_Coco%29_-_Francisco_de_Goya_y_Lucientes_crop.jpg|Here Comes the Bogey-Man]] by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goya|Francisco Goya]], ca. 1797, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Museum|Brooklyn Museum]]</ref> ||~   ||^   ||
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=History= 
from [[Tom Kerrigan|Tom Kerrigan's]] Home Page <ref>[[http://www.tckerrigan.com/Chess/Stobor|Stobor from Tom Kerrigan's Home Page]] - History</ref> :
|| {{The first version of Stobor was mainly influenced by a paper on [[Chess (Program)|CHESS 4.0]]. It used attack [[Bitboards|bitboards]]. It was slow and never very stable and I rewrote it at the beginning of 1995 to use precomputed move tables, like [[Ferret]] and [[GNU Chess|GNU Chess 3]]. I rewrote most of it again in 1999 to use [[0x88]] and implemented [[Parallel Search|parallel search]] in 2003. Stobor and I owe a lot to [[Bruce Moreland]].}} ||

=See also=
* [[Various Classifications#Demonology|Demonology]]
* [[Various Classifications#Fiction|Fiction]]

=External Links= 
* [[http://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=36|Stobor's ICGA Tournaments]]
* [[http://www.tckerrigan.com/Chess/Stobor|Stobor from Tom Kerrigan's Home Page]]

=References= 
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