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Socrates II
Socrates
II
is a
chess program
that, in
1993
, won
the 23rd
North American Computer Chess Championship
. It ran on an
IBM PC
. This was the first and only time that a
stock
microcomputer
won this
event
,
finishing
ahead of past
winners
Cray Blitz
and
HiTech
. The
authors
,
Don Dailey
and
Larry Kaufman
, renewed their collaboration
twenty years
later to
create
the
Komodo
chess engine
.