Snitch
Snitch,
a WinBoard and UCI compliant chess engine by Klaus Friedel, written in C++,
first announced [1]
and released [2] in 2004.
While Klaus' former engine Hagrid applies Rotated Bitboards, Snitch uses a plain 8x8 board with piece-lists and attack tables [3],
as well as legal move generation.
Contents
Features
Search
Evaluation
- Material
- Piece-Square Tables
- Lazy Evaluation
- Square Control
- Pawn Structure
- Pawn Hash Table
- King Safety
- Outposts
- Bad Bishop [5]
Misc
See also
Forum Posts
- New engine by Klaus Friedel, Winboard Forum, January 03, 2004
- New engine Snitch 1.0.0 by Klaus Friedel, Winboard Forum, September 28, 2004
- Snitch 1.0.4 available by Klaus Friedel, Winboard Forum, October 07, 2004
- Snitch 1.0.8 released by Klaus Friedel, CCC, November 16, 2004
- Snitch new version by Klaus Friedel, Winboard Forum, November 17, 2004
- Snitch 1.6.1 by Sergio Martinez, Winboard Forum, May 06, 2006
External Links
Chess Engine
Misc
References
- ↑ New engine by Klaus Friedel, Winboard Forum, January 03, 2004
- ↑ New engine Snitch 1.0.0 by Klaus Friedel, Winboard Forum, September 28, 2004
- ↑ Re: Attack table by Klaus Friedel, Winboard Forum, September 28, 2004
- ↑ Snitch and Hagrid two free UCI / Winboard chess engines - Developer
- ↑ Re: Evaluating bad bishops by Klaus Friedel, Winboard Forum, May 15, 2006