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[ Titan behind Epimetheus and the rings [1] Titan, (Socrates II)

a chess engine by Don Dailey and Larry Kaufman affiliated with Julio Kaplan’s Heuristic Software, and like its predecessor Heuristic Alpha also written in C and never commercially released under its original name. Titan, intern also dubbed Mini, was a kind of experimental development version and testbed of new ideas for the optimized x86 assembly Socrates versions.

Titan won the ACM 1993 on a 486 PC, leaving Cray Blitz, *Tech and B*Hitech behind, but was “traded” for Socrates II [2] , soon sold to Electronic Arts for their game AI of the mass-market entry Kasparov’s Gambit. Titan influenced the commercial Socrates 3.0, which was released in 1993 not by Heuristic Software, but through a company called MDI [3] , and further started a academic career thanks to MIT connections yielding to *Socrates.

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  1. ↑ Cassini delivers this stunning vista showing small, battered Epimetheus and smog-enshrouded Titan, with Saturn’s A and F rings stretching across the scene, April 28, 2006. Source: NASA/ JPL/ Space Science Institute PIA08391: Titan Beyond the Rings, Titan (moon) from Wikipedia
  2. ↑ Larry Kaufman (1993). PC Software. Computer Chess Reports 1993, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 8-9
  3. ↑ Larry Kaufman (1993). PC Software. Computer Chess Reports 1993, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 9

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