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Diep,
a private chess engine by Vincent Diepeveen, written in C. The development started in 1994, and so far stopped in December 2012 [2]. Since 1999 Diep performed a parallel search on SMP, and later on NUMA multi core systems, and occasionally on Super Computers but unfortunately without too much support for testing. Diep's most successful year was 2004, when Diep won the Dutch Open Computer Chess Championship in 2004 [3], and won the Bronze Medal at the WCCC in Ramat Gan [4]. Diep spawns processes for its parallel search. Due to its enormous chess knowledge implemented in its evaluation, Diep was not a fast but knowledge based searcher.

Deep Trouble

In 1997, Vincent Diepeveen's early claim caused some trouble and antagonism [5] [6] [7] :

Diep is without doubt the strongest chess analysis program in the world at infinite level (few hours a move). The longer you allow it to analyse the better the move it will produce, something which is uncommon for most other chessprograms, caused by the enormeous chessknowledge in Diep, which is at the time still considerably growing every month (and decreasing the Diep searchspeed). 

Tournament Play

Diep was one of the most active programs in official tournaments. It played three World Microcomputer Chess Championships, the WMCCC 1997 [8] , WMCCC 2000 and WMCCC 2001, seven World Computer Chess Championships, WCCC 1999, WCCC 2002, WCCC 2003 [9] , WCCC 2004, WCCC 2005, WCCC 2006 and the WCCC 2007, various Dutch Open Computer Chess Championships, ICTs , IPCCCs, the IOPCCC 2007, CPTs and CCT Tournaments.

Book Authors

Diep, while playing tournaments, had various book authors over the time, Carlos Pesce at the WMCCC 2001, Eros Riccio at the WCCC 2006, and Arturo Ochoa at most other tournaments.

Descriptions

given from the ICGA tournament site [10]

1997

Diep is a classical chess playing program with this exception that I try to incorporate as much chess knowledge as possible. This is hard work, but in the end I hope it will give Diep a lot. 

1999

Started winter 1994 with DIEP. But now i'm busy with this experimental parallel program, it's called DIEP. Still using the same huge evaluation, from which as far as i know it's the most extensive chess evaluation that any chessprogram contains (although mainly middlegame/opening heuristics).
The search of DIEP is however very very selective currently. I plan to join Paderborn with a complete new search. Not only parallel, but it's closer to best first search than the depth limited alfabeta search, although it's still using the iteration to expand nodes. 

Features

Selected Games

WCCC 2004, round 10, Fritz - Diep [15] [16]

[Event "WCCC 2004"]
[Site "Ramat Gan, Israel"]
[Date "2004.07.12"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Fritz"]
[Black "Diep"]
[Result "0-1"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 
8.f3 Nbd7 9.g4 b5 10.g5 b4 11.Ne2 Nh5 12.Qd2 a5 13.Ng3 Nxg3 14.hxg3 
a4 15.Nc1 Qa5 16.f4 Nc5 17.Bg2 a3 18.b3 Rc8 19.f5 Bd7 20.Nd3 Nxd3+ 
21.cxd3 Qb5 22.d4 Be7 23.d5 Bd8 24.Bf1 Qb7 25.Bc4 Rb8 26.O-O-O Bb6 
27.Kb1 Qa7 28.Bxb6 Qxb6 29.Rc1 Kf8 30.Rc2 Qd4 31.Qe2 Rc8 32.g6 h5 
33.g4 h4 34.Qf3 f6 35.Rd1 Qb6 36.Rh2 Ke7 37.g5 fxg5 38.Re2 Rh6 
39.Qg4 Kf6 40.Qg2 Bb5 41.Rg1 Rh5 42.Bxb5 h3 43.Qg4 Qxb5 44.Rd2 Qc5 
45.Rgd1 Rh4 46.Qg3 Qc3 47.Qh2 Qe3 48.Re2 Qf3 0-1 

Publications

Forum Posts

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Re: Diep 2.0 by Vincent Diepeveen, CCC, January 26, 2018

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