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+KnightCap is a chess program written for the Fujitsu AP1000+ parallel
+computer (running AP/Linux). It will also run on most unixes, although
+you may need to tweak the includes.h file and Makefile.
+
+The principal differences between KnightCap and other chess programs
+are:
+
+ - KnightCap has an optional fully rendered 3D interface, giving a feel much
+   more like an "over the board" game.
+
+ - KnightCap was developed to run on a parallel distributed memory
+   machine, although it also runs on normal unix boxes.
+
+ - KnightCap does not have an opening book---instead it keeps a file
+   (brain.dat) of losing moves and inserts them in the hash table at the
+   start of each search. At present it has about 1500 entries, and
+   this makes it a pretty competitive opening player.
+
+ - KnightCap learns the parameters of its evaluation function as it
+   plays. The most dramatic example of how this helps is an experiment
+   we conducted on FICS in which KnightCap learnt from a 1650 player
+   to a 2100 player in just 300 games. See
+   http://keating.anu.edu.au/~jon/papers/knigtcap.ps.gz for more info on
+   its learning algorithm.
+
+KnightCap now beats gnuchess consistently and is within "coo-ee" of
+crafty, although I think it needs deeper search or some more dramatic
+selective search to be truly competitive with the best micro
+programs.