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Crafty is a chess program written by UAB professor Robert Hyatt, with development and assistance from Michael Byrne, Tracy Riegle, and Peter Skinner. It is derived from Cray Blitz, winner of the 1983 and 1986 World Computer Chess Championships. Tord Romstad, co-author of Stockfish, described Crafty as "arguably the most important and influential chess program ever". Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: CraftyA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Getting crafty: Examining social resource crafting's relationship with work engagement and social supportInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: To the booksellers of Al-Mutanabbi StreetThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Catecholamines—Crafty Weapons in the Inflammatory Arsenal of Immune/Inflammatory Cells or Opening Pandora’s Box?Cited 176 times
- Go sideways: Chess engineA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Fritz (chess)A closely related topic
đź“– Definitions
Adjective Skillful at deceiving others.
Adjective Sneaky; surreptitious.
Adjective Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous, clever.
Adjective Magical or occult, or allegedly so.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Catecholamines—Crafty Weapons in the Inflammatory Arsenal of Immune/Inflammatory Cells or Opening Pandora’s Box?
Spinel ZnMn2O4 nanoplate assemblies fabricated via “escape-by-crafty-scheme” strategy
Gettin’ a little crafty: Teachers Pay Teachers©, Pinterest©and neo-liberalism in new materialist feminist research
“Crafty Advertisers”: Literary versus Literal Deceptiveness
Crafty Marketing: An Evaluation of Distinctive Criteria for “Craft” Beer
Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) – a crafty subversive little bug
Crafty design of chemical bonding to construct MoO2/CdS nanorod photocatalysts for boosting hydrogen evolution
Natural selection and human adiposity: crafty genotype, thrifty phenotype
🆕 Influential since 2022
Getting crafty: Examining social resource crafting's relationship with work engagement and social support
Safe and enabling: composing ethically sustainable crafty-activist research on gender and power in young peer cultures
The crafty opponent: the defense systems of Staphylococcus aureus and response measures
Getting crafty when you're bored: The interaction between personality and boredom
Crafty mimicry grants nuclear pore entry to HIV
đź“š Books worth reading
- 📕To the booksellers of Al-Mutanabbi StreetCrafty Crafts Group · 2011
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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