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It performs [[Fail-Soft|fail-soft]] [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta]] with [[Null Move Pruning|null move pruning]] and [[Check Extensions|check extensions]].
[[Move Ordering|Move ordering]] considers [[Hash Move|hash move]], [[Mate Killers|mate killers]], [[Captures|winning captures]] and [[Promotions|promotions]].
Further, beside the [[Killer Heuristic|killer heuristic]] and [[Countermove Heuristic|countermove heuristic]], a so called '''Combo Move''' heuristics is used to possibly refute opponent moves along similar lines <ref>[http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/chess-search.html Chess (Jazz & Sjaak) search]</ref> . The implementation of a [[Thread|multithreaded]] [[Parallel Search|parallel search]] along the [[Young Brothers Wait Concept]] with [[Shared Hash Table#Lockless|lock-less hashing]] was elaborated by Evert Glebbeek in a April 2013 [[CCC]] posting <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47820 Implementation of multithreaded search in Jazz] by [[Evert Glebbeek]], [[CCC]], April 20, 2013</ref>. Jazz' [[Evaluation|evaluation]] takes [[Material|material]], [[Piece-Square Tables|piece-square tables]], [[Pawn Structure|pawn structure]], [[Mobility|mobility]], and [[King Safety|king safety]] into account.
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