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  2. Piano Sonata No. 2 (Prokofiev) - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Prokofiev dedicated the work to his friend and fellow student at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Maximilian Schmidthof, who committed suicide in 1913. [3] Concert pianist Boris Berman has said of this sonata that it 'covers a huge emotional range: from Romantic lyricism to aggressive brutality'.

  3. Piano Concerto No. 2 (Prokofiev) - Wikipedia

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    4 but with a repeating pattern seven quavers long (accented as 4+3). After six bars it settles down in the vicinity of middle C. Running up to an acid semitonal acciaccatura in both hands, the piano goes over into a sprint of octave-chords and single notes, jumping manically up and down the keyboard twice a bar.

  4. Patrick Wyatt - Wikipedia

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    Patrick Wyatt is a game programmer and one of the three co-founders of ArenaNet. [1] He was the leader of the Network and Technology teams and a programmer for Guild Wars . Before the founding of ArenaNet, he was working in Blizzard Entertainment where he was the Vice President of Research and Development and a senior programmer.

  5. Piano Sonata No. 4 (Prokofiev) - Wikipedia

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    In his notes accompanying the full set of recordings of Prokofiev's sonatas by Boris Berman, David Fanning states the following: . Whether the restrained, even brooding quality of much of the Fourth Sonata relates in any direct way to Schmidthof's death is uncertain, but it is certainly striking that the first two movements both start gloomily in the piano's low register.

  6. ArenaNet - Wikipedia

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    The founders of ArenaNet were former employees of Blizzard Entertainment who played important roles in developing the video games Warcraft, Warcraft 2, StarCraft, Diablo, Diablo II, and the Battle.net gaming network. They left Blizzard in February 2000 to form their own company.

  7. Mike O'Brien (game developer) - Wikipedia

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    O'Brien also previously developed an Apple II emulator for Windows, AppleWin, and old DOS ASCII game, Pyro 2. In early October 2019, through the official Guild Wars 2 news page, O'Brien announced his departure from ArenaNet and his intention to start a new development studio. [3] He is currently working as a programmer at the studio "ManaWorks ...

  8. List of Net Yaroze games - Wikipedia

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    The Net Yaroze is a development kit for the PlayStation developed and manufactured by Sony Computer Entertainment as a promotion to computer programming hobbyists, first released in Japan in June 1996 and later across Europe and North America in 1997. [1] [2] [3] The following list contains games and demos developed and/or released for the Net ...

  9. List of chess software - Wikipedia

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    A chess playing program provides a graphical chessboard on which one can play a chess game against a computer. Such programs are available for personal computers, video game consoles, smartphones/tablet computers or mainframes/supercomputers. A chess engine generates moves, but is accessed via a command-line interface with no graphics. A ...