SnailChess
Helix pomatia [1]
SnailChess,
an experimental WinBoard compliant chess engine by Rasjid Chan with the fame of a slow searcher, written in C, first released in November 1999. SnailChess started as plain alpha-beta searcher, SnailChess 1.07 used NegaScout with transposition table and null move pruning [2], an intermediate SnailSCP was a partial clone of TSCP [3].
The last public SnailChess 4.013 was released in June 2002. Then SnailChess became a testbed for various board representations and move generation techniques, using incremental updated attack tables and various bitboard methods such as rotated and magic bitboards, and applied an iterative search with a stack of structs [4].
Contents
Forum Posts
1999
- New kid on the block : Snailchess by K1, Winboard Forum, November 04, 1999
- SOS 031199, Ant 4.16 und SnailChess 1.01 by Andreas Herrmann, CCC, November 22, 1999
2000 ...
- SnailChess-new release by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, June 03, 2000
- SnailChess ver 1.07 by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, September 28, 2000
- SnailChess Copper, a new re-write by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, May 12, 2001
- SnailChess Copper ver 2.1 by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, May 18, 2001
- SnailChess Ver 3.01 is now at homepage by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, November 19, 2001
- SnailChess by Andreas Herrmann, Winboard Forum, January 08, 2002
- SnailChess Copper Revived- Ver 4.0 by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, June 21, 2002
2005 ...
- Does simple futility prune work by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, March 27, 2005
- Re: NPS by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, September 01, 2005
- Help! SnailChess Debug problem by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, December 28, 2005
- Re: Fastest Magic Move Bitboard Generator ready to use by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, August 28, 2006
- Re: Help Finding X by Rasjid Chan, CCC, June 09, 2007 » KPK
External Links
Chess Engine
- Engine Download List from Ron Murawski's Computer-Chess Wiki
- SnailChess 4.013 in CCRL 40/4
- SnailChess 4.013 in KCEC
Misc
- Snail from Wikipedia
- Snail (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
- Helix (gastropod) from Wikipedia
- Snail slime from Wikipedia
- A snail can slide over a razor blade without being hurt. | Wikistupidia [5]
- SKNAIL - The Other Side, produced by Bastien Bron, YouTube Video
References
- ↑ Picture of Helix pomatia by Jürgen Schoner, May 23, 2005, Snail from Wikipedia
- ↑ SnailChess ver 1.07 by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, September 28, 2000
- ↑ SnailChess-new release by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, June 03, 2000
- ↑ Re: Fastest Magic Move Bitboard Generator ready to use by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, August 28, 2006
- ↑ Warum können Schnecken über Rasierklingen kriechen, ohne sich zu verletzen?, Kopfball DasErste (German)
