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|| [[image:240px-Face-surprise.svg.png link="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Face-surprise.svg?uselang=en"]] ||~ || **Surprise**,
a [[WinBoard]] chess engine by [[Sven Schüle]]. The first version of Surprise was already created in about 1991 on an [[Atari ST]]. The private versions 3.x, developed in 2000/2001 were the first versions playing at least acceptable chess. After a three years break, the work on Surprise was continued in 2004, with versions 4.1 as first public release in June 2004, and the final version 4.3 in October 2007 <ref>[[http://www.schuelebln.de/chess/|Surprise - A WinBoard Chess Engine]]</ref>. ||
|| Surprise <ref>An [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon|emoticon]] showing a [[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Face-surprise.svg?uselang=en|surprised face]], Source: [[http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Desktop_Project|Tango Desktop Project]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons|Wikimedia Commons]]</ref> ||~ ||^ ||
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=See also=
* [[Jumbo]]
* [[KnockOut]]

=Forum Posts=
==2004==
* [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=47862|New engine released: "Surprise 4.1"!]] by [[Sven Schüle]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], June 13, 2004
* [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=47934|Surprise-4.1.1 update released]] by [[Sven Schüle]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], June 20, 2004
* [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=47952|Surprise updated again, new version 4.1.2]] by [[Sven Schüle]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], June 22, 2004
* [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=48138|Surprise-4.1.3 released]] by [[Sven Schüle]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], July 09, 2004
* [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=48320|Surprise 4.1.4 released]] by [[Sven Schüle]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], July 26, 2004
* [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=48537|How to handle the first repetition correctly? (long)]] by [[Sven Schüle]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], August 10, 2004 » [[Repetitions]]
* [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=48590|Surprise 4.1.5 released]] by [[Sven Schüle]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], August 15, 2004
* [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=48977|Surprise 4.1.6 released]] by [[Sven Schüle]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], September 19, 2004
==2010 ...==
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32044|Time losses with Surprise]] by [[Luca Hemmerich]], [[CCC]], January 25, 2010
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61473&start=5|Re: New engine release: Jumbo]] by [[Sven Schüle]], [[CCC]], September 19, 2016

=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [[http://www.schuelebln.de/chess/|Surprise - A WinBoard Chess Engine]]
* [[http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/Jim%20Ablett/SURPRISE/|Index of /chess/engines/Jim Ablett/SURPRISE]] by [[Jim Ablett]], hosted by [[Kirill Kryukov]]
* [[http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404/cgi/engine_details.cgi?print=Details&each_game=1&eng=Surprise%204.3b13|Surprise 4.3b13]] in [[CCRL|CCRL 40/4]]
==Misc==
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surprise|Surprise from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/surprise|surprise - Wiktionary]]
* [[Videos#Mezzoforte|Mezzoforte]] - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surprise_Surprise_(album)|Surprise, Garden Party]], Live In Reykjavik, March 27, 2007, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube|YouTube]] Video
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=References= 
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