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==Alybadix==

First developed in 1980 by Ilkka Blom, ''Alybadix'' is a suite of chess problem solving programs for [[DOS]] and [[Commodore 64]].<ref name=british>{{cite journal|journal=The British Chess Magazine|volume=106|publisher=Trubner & co.|year=1986}}</ref> Alybadix supports solving classical problems: selfmates, reflex mates, series mates, Circe, maximummers,<ref name=oxford>{{cite book|book=The Oxford Companion to Chess|authors=David Hooper, Kenneth Whyld|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1996}}</ref> and many Fairy types.<ref name=british/> It comes with a large problem collection and supports quality [[printing]].<ref name="ALY">[http://alybadix.wippiespace.com/ Alybadix official website]</ref> In 1993, [[Schach und Spiele]] magazine considered Alybadix to be six times faster than other playing machines including the [[RISC 2500]].<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Chess Life|volume=48|publisher=United States Chess Federation|year=1993}}</ref><!--This cites one of Alybadix's sellers so may not qualify as independent sourcing-->

==LaTeX Diagram Style== <!-- any references!? --->

Diagram is a style file for [[LaTeX]] for typesetting chess diagrams. The style was originally created by Thomas Brand and further developed by Stefan Hoening, both based on ideas of a [[TeX]] package from Elmar Bartel. The style is used to produce the German problem chess magazine [[Die Schwalbe]].

==Popeye==

[[Popeye (chess)|Popeye]] is chess problem-solving software. Popeye runs from a [[command-line interface]], but it can be used with several operating systems and can be connected to several existing graphical interfaces since it comes with freely available source code in the [[C (programming language)|C programming language]]. Popeye is one of the most exhaustive solving programs. It can solve problems with many fairy pieces and conditions, and can output to [[LaTeX]]. The original author of Popeye was Philippe Schnoebelen who wrote it in [[Pascal (programming language)|Pascal]] under [[MS-DOS]] around 1983-84. The code was later donated in the spirit of the [[free software]] movement. Elmar Bartel, Norbert Geissler, Thomas Maeder, Torsten Linss, Stefan Hoening, Stefan Brunzen, Harald Denker, Thomas Bark and Stephen Emmerson, converted Popeye to C, and now maintain the program.

[[Popeye (chess)|Popeye]] is chess problem-solving software. Popeye runs from a [[command-line interface]], but it can be used with several operating systems and can be connected to several existing graphical interfaces since it comes with freely available source code in the [[C (programming language)|C programming language]]. Popeye is one of the most exhaustive solving programs. It can solve problems with many fairy pieces and conditions, and can output to [[LaTeX]]. The original author of Popeye was Philippe Schnoebelen who wrote it in [[Pascal (programming language)|Pascal]] under [[MS-DOS]] around 1983-84. The code was later donated in the spirit of the [[free software]] movement. Elmar Bartel, Norbert Geissler, Thomas Maeder, Torsten Linss, Stefan Hoening, Stefan Brunzen, Harald Denker, Thomas Bark and Stephen Emmerson, converted Popeye to C, and now maintain the program.

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