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**Turning Point**,
the so far youngest chess program by [[Eric van Riet Paap]] which participated at the [[Aegon 1996]] Man-Machine tournament. According to [[Ed Schroder|Ed Schröder]], Turning Point searches more than 200,000 [[Nodes per second|nodes a second]] in the [[Middlegame|middlegame]] on a [[x86]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_Pro|Pentium Pro]] 200 MHz, including [[Move Ordering|move ordering]], [[Transposition Table|transposition table]], and [[Null Move Pruning|null move pruning]] <ref>[[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/msg/50d158b6b30eb6a8|Re: Unsubstantiated claim in the Diep homepage]] by [[Ed Schroder|Ed Schröder]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], January 20, 1997</ref>.

=Quotes=
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer|Bobby Fischer]] <ref>[[http://www.chessquotes.com/topic-success|Chess Quotes - Success]]</ref>: //The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality//.   

=External Links=
* [[http://www.365chess.com/players/Comp_Turning_Point|Comp Turning Point chess games - 365Chess.com]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point|Turning Point (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]]
> [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turning_Point_%28book%29|The Turning Point (book)]]
> [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climax_%28narrative%29|Climax (narrative)]]

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