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[[FILE:ZCT.png|border|right|thumb|320px| ZCT logo <ref>[http://zct.sourceforge.net ZCT's home page]</ref> ]]

'''ZCT''', (Zach's Chess Test)<br/>
an [[:Category:Open Source|open source chess engine]] by [[Zach Wegner]], written in [[C]], in development since June 1, 2005 and first released April 29, 2008 under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GNU GPL]]. The latest version is 0.3.2500. ZCT is both [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]] and [[UCI]] compliant.

=Features=
Main features are the use of [[Bitboards|bitboards]], an efficient [[Process|process]] based [[Parallel Search|parallel search]] using [[Dynamic Tree Splitting|DTS]],
and a crappy [[Evaluation|evaluation]].

==[[Board Representation]]==
* [[Bitboards]]
* [[8x8 Board]]
* [[Kogge-Stone Algorithm|Kogge-Stone]] [[Sliding Piece Attacks]]
==[[Search]]==
* [[Dynamic Tree Splitting]]
* [[Iterative Deepening]]
* [[Iterative Search|Iterative]] [[Principal Variation Search]]
* [[Shared Hash Table]]
* [[Fail-Soft]]
* [[Selectivity]]
** [[Check Extensions]]
** [[Mate Threat Extensions]]
** [[One Reply Extensions]]
** [[Passed Pawn Extensions]] (7th Rank)
** [[Late Move Reductions]]
** [[Mate Distance Pruning]]
** [[Null Move Pruning]]
** [[Futility Pruning]]
** [[Quiescence Search]]
* [[Move Ordering]]
** [[Internal Iterative Deepening]]
** [[Static Exchange Evaluation]]
** [[Killer Heuristic]]
** [[Countermove Heuristic]]
** [[History Heuristic]]
==[[Evaluation]]==
* [[Evaluation Hash Table]]
* [[Tapered Eval]]
* [[Material]]
* [[Mobility]]
* [[King Safety]]
* [[Pawn Structure]]
** [[Pawn Hash Table]]
** [[Passed Pawn|Passed Pawns]]
* [[Tempo]]
==Misc==
* [[Automated Tuning]]
* [[Book Learning]]
* [[Perft]]

=Tournament Play=
ZCT played [[CCT10]] and [[CCT11]] tournaments, the [[ACCA 2008]] and [[ACCA 2009]] Annual ACCA Americas' Computer Chess Championships, and the [[WCRCC 2008]] and [[WCRCC 2009]] Annual ACCA World Computer Rapid Chess Championships. As of the release of ZCT 0.3.2500 on June 1, 2009 <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28212 ZCT 0.3.2500 released] by [[Zach Wegner]], [[CCC]], June 02, 2009</ref>, the ZCT project is inactive.

=Forum Posts=
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22100 ZCTACCAWCRCC] by [[Zach Wegner]], [[CCC]], July 02, 2008
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28212 ZCT 0.3.2500 released] by [[Zach Wegner]], [[CCC]], June 02, 2009

=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [http://zct.sourceforge.net ZCT's home page]
* [https://sourceforge.net/projects/zct/ ZCT download | SourceForge.net]
==Misc==
* [[:Category:Frank Zappa|Frank Zappa]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can%27t_Do_That_on_Stage_Anymore,_Vol._1 Zomby Woof] (1982), album [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheap_Thrills_(Frank_Zappa_album) Cheap Thrills] (1998), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoMQfLy1BWI|alignment=left|valignment=top}}

=References=
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