The Crazy Bishop

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|| [[image:LeFou.jpg link="http://wwwmeanderingbrick-mjd.blogspot.com/p/batman-rise-of-senryu.html"]] ||~ || **The Crazy Bishop** (TCB),
a chess program by [[Rémi Coulom]] - one of the pioneers in supporting the [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]]. TCB played the [[WMCCC 1997]], the [[WCCC 2004]] and [[WCCC 2005]], as well as various [[French Computer Chess Championship|French Computer Chess Championships]], and the [[CPT 2009]]. The Ramat Gan version TCB0052 <ref>[[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=377027|Ramat-Gan version of The Crazy Bishop]] by [[Rémi Coulom]], [[CCC]], July 15, 2004</ref> is freely available from Rémi's site <ref>[[http://remi.coulom.free.fr/|Rémi Coulom's Home Page]]</ref>, it is further available for sale on the [[Apple]] App store <ref>[[http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id419524524?mt=8|App Store - The Chess Crazy Bishop]]</ref>, and as [[Android]] version <ref>[[https://market.android.com/details?id=jp.co.unbalance.android.chess|ザ・チェス レベル100 - Android Market]]</ref>. ||
|| The [[Bishop]] in French, is [[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fou_%28%C3%A9checs%29|Le Fou]] (Foo),
which refers to the crazy person <ref>Art by [[http://kanthara.deviantart.com/|Kanthara]]. The Bishop piece in French, is Le Fou (Foo), which refers to the crazy person - from [[http://wwwmeanderingbrick-mjd.blogspot.com/p/batman-rise-of-senryu.html|The Meandering Brick: Batman: The Rise of Senryu]]</ref> <ref>[[http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3092.html|RFC 3092 - Etymology of "Foo"]]</ref> <ref>[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman|Batman from Wikipedia]]</ref> ||~ ||^ ||
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|| [[image:FCCC2000-02.jpg link="http://www.ludochess.com/fccc2002/tournoi.php3"]] ||
|| [[The Crazy Bishop]] vs [[Chess Tiger]], [[Rémi Coulom]], [[Ernest Bonnem]], background: [[Bruno Lucas]], [[Franck Zibi]] <ref>[[http://www.ludochess.com/fccc2002/tournoi.php3|Massy, France - 5 & 6 Oct 2002 - 9ème Championnat Français de Programmes d'Echecs]], [[FCCC 2002]], by [[Stéphane Nguyen]]</ref> ||

=Description=
given in 1997 from the [[ICGA]] site <ref>[[http://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=12|The Crazy Bishop's ICGA Tournaments]]</ref>:
|| {{This program is called The Crazy Bishop because it is a crazy project and a pun in French. The first lines of code of The Crazy Bishop were written in October 1996. It played its first public games on the French Internet Chess Server in December and became popular there, getting a high rating in blitz. It was then released as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware|freeware]] in January 1997. The Crazy Bishop's algorithm is a very classical [[Principal Variation Search|PVS]]. Its strength is based on a solid tactical play combined with a simple but fast [[Evaluation|evaluation function]].}} ||

=See also=
* [[Various Classifications#ChessPieces|Chess Pieces]]

=Forum Posts=
* [[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/msg/1f37f1a88e61bd22|Chess C++ class library source code released]] by [[Rémi Coulom]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]] April 1, 1997
* [[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess.computer/Am0Bw0OWEpY/inAiGKohb28J|Re: CHESS 4.5 (1973)]] by [[Rémi Coulom]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], April 10, 1997 » [[Chess (Program)|Chess]]
* [[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=11890|Announce: Paris version of The Crazy Bishop released]] by [[Rémi Coulom]], [[CCC]], November 10, 1997
* [[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=65504|The Crazy Bishop]] by [[Sune Larsson]], [[CCC]], August 21, 1999
* [[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=186640|The Crazy Bishop 0046 and Gromit 3.8.2]] by [[Federico Andrés Corigliano|Federico Corigliano]], [[CCC]], August 31, 2001 » [[Gromit]]
* [[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=377027|Ramat-Gan version of The Crazy Bishop]] by [[Rémi Coulom]], [[CCC]], July 15, 2004

=External Links=
* [[http://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=12|The Crazy Bishop's ICGA Tournaments]]
* [[http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/kcec/cgi/engine_details.cgi?print=Details&each_game=1&eng=The%20Crazy%20Bishop%200052|The Crazy Bishop 0052 in KCEC]]
* [[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=86000|The chess games of Crazy Bishop]] from [[http://www.chessgames.com/index.html|chessgames.com]]

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