Amazon.com, headquartered in Seattle, Washington, is America's largest online retailer in the world. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994 and launched it online in 1995. Today Amazon.com offers a wide variety of products ranging including books, audio video CDs/DVDs, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and so on.

Amazon.com directly manages and operates retail web sites for organisations such as Target, Sears , bebe Stores, Timex Corporation, Marks & Spencer, Mothercare, and Lacoste. Amazon is harnessing the power of the technology and today offers a unified multichannel platform to various enterprise clients such as Marks and Spencer, Mothercare, etc where a customer can seamlessly interact with the retail website, standalone in-store terminals, or phone-based customer service agents.

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Website: www.amazon.com

The House of Staunton manufacturers the world's finest Chess equipment. Products include Chess sets, Chess boards and Chess boxes of all types and for all budgets. Products are crafted from a wide range of materials, including such luxurious materials as Ebony, Blood Rosewood, Amboyna Burl and 40,000 year-old Wooly Mammoth Ivory.

Since its inception more than one hundred and fifty years ago, the Staunton pattern for chess pieces has become the standardized hallmark of modern chess. The House of Staunton is proud to carry on this tradition by producing the world's finest Staunton Chessmen. Crafted from the finest timbers and 40,000 year old Wooly Mammoth Ivory, these miniature masterpieces are heavily weighted, felted, and have been meticulously handcrafted to replicate the design and proportions of the original Staunton pattern chess set that was first made by the firm John Jaques and Son in 1849.

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MonRoi is a world leader in live chess technology. The Company uses proprietary software to enable people worldwide to view live chess tournaments on their computers. The Company has developed and commercialized the MonRoi system, which enables chess players to electronically record, store and view their games in Personal Chess Managers (PCMs).

MonRoi Inc. executed the world's first International Women's Chess Grand Prix, recognizing women in chess. The Company collaborated with the European Chess Union, the Quebec Chess Federation, the Chess'n Math Association, the Susan Polgar Foundation, the Continental Chess Association and the Association of Chess Professionals.

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Rybka is the strongest chess engine in the world. Rybka supports both single processor and symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) systems.

Rybka has been developed by Vasik Rajlich (IM) and a graduate of MIT, Larry Kaufman (GM) . Noomen, who was also the designer for Rebel, deserves a mention as he along with Dagh Nielsen, one of the famous freestyle chess players, are authors of Rybka’s opening book. The testing for Rybka software has been done by Iweta Rajlich who besides being Vasik Rajlich's wife is also a Grandmaster.

Rybka is a standalone UCI chess engine which is used to play chess games or to analyze chess positions. A chess engine like this recommends the moves and provides up with the evaluation scores for chess positions. It is used together with a chess graphical user interface (GUI), such as Aquarium GUI or Fritz 11 GUI which provides intuitive graphical interaction with the engine.

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Email: FelixKling@yahoo.de
Website: http://www.rybkachess.com/

The Shredder chess programs by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen provide a game playing and analysis tool for everybody and is accepted as one of the best chess programs of the world. Since 1996 Shredder has won twelve titles as World Computer Chess Champion which makes Shredder one of the most successful chess program ever.

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Email: support@shredderchess.com
Website: http://www.shredderchess.com/