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'''[[Main Page|Home]] * [[Engines]] * XiniX'''
[[FILE:Paderborn_2002_06.jpg|border|right|thumb| XiniX with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley Smiley] [[Score]] indicator <ref>Image from no longer available Paderborn 2002 site by [http://www.harald-faber.de/ Harald Faber]</ref> ]]
'''XiniX''',<br/>
a [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]] compatible chess program written by [[Tony van Roon-Werten]]. Its first version including an own [[GUI|graphical user interface]] was written in [[Delphi]], a subsequent version from about 2004 re-written in [[Cpp|C++]]. The name XiniX was derived from the Dutch phrase for "Seeing Nothing", which appeared to be an issue during the [[DOCCC 2000]], when XiniX was not able to mate [[Ant]] with three queens due to a [[Engine Testing#bugs|bug]] with overlapping [[Score#ValueRange|score range]] of [[Score#MateScores|mate scores]] versus huge [[Material|material]] advantage, and finally lost on time <ref>[http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/honor.htm Defending Humanity's Honor] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Krabb%C3%A9 Tim Krabbé]</ref> . XiniX uses [[Bitboards|bitboards]], [[Principal Variation Search|PVS]], [[Null Move Pruning|Null move pruning]] and a quite sophisticated [[Evaluation|evaluation]] with [[Mate at a Glance]].
=Tournament Play=
Xinix played the [[WMCCC 2000]], the [[WMCCC 2001]] and the [[WCCC 2002]], various [[Dutch Open Computer Chess Championship|Dutch Open Computer Chess Championships]], [[International CSVN Tournament|International CSVN Tournaments]], the [[IPCCC 2002]], [[CCT Tournaments]] and two [[Livingston Chess960 Computer World Championship|Livingston Chess960 Computer World Championships]] in [[Chess960CWC 2005|2005]] and [[Chess960CWC 2006|2006]], operated by [[Elke van Roon]] and [[Tony van Roon-Werten]].
=Photos & Games=
[[FILE:femaleopWCCC2002.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px|link=http://old.csvn.nl/wk2002.html]]
[[WCCC 2002]]: [[Martin Giepmans]], Joke Wiegersma, [[Elke van Roon]] and [[Tony van Roon-Werten|Tony]] in [[SpiderChess]] - [[Xinix]] <ref>[http://old.csvn.nl/wk2002.html 10e WK Computerschaak, 6-11 juli 2002, Maastricht], old [[CSVN]] site in Dutch</ref> <ref>[https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/round.php?tournament=20&round=7&id=4 Maastricht 2002 - Chess - Round 7 - Game 4 (ICGA Tournaments)]</ref>
<pre>
[Event "WCCC 2002"]
[Site "Maastricht, The Netherlands"]
[Date "2002.07.10"]
[Round "7"]
[White "SpiderChess"]
[Black "XiniX"]
[Result "0-1"]
1.Nf3 d5 2.b3 f5 3.g3 e6 4.Bb2 Nf6 5.Bg2 Bd6 6.c4 Qe7 7.O-O c6 8.d4 Na6 9.Nbd2 O-O
10.a3 c5 11.dxc5 Nxc5 12.b4 Nce4 13.Qb3 a5 14.cxd5 axb4 15.Nxe4 fxe4 16.Nd2 bxa3
17.Bxf6 gxf6 18.Nxe4 Be5 19.Ra2 exd5 20.Nc3 Bxc3 21.Bxd5+ Kg7 22.Qxc3 Rd8 23.Qb3 Bf5
24.Qf3 Ra5 25.Bxb7 Rb8 26.Bd5 Bb1 27.Ra1 a2 28.Rc1 Rb4 29.Bc4 Qd6 30.Qg4+ Rg5
31.Qe6 Qxe6 32.Bxe6 Ra5 33.f3 Rb2 34.e4 Ra3 35.Rf1 Ra6 36.Bd5 Bd3 37.Rfe1 Be2
38.f4 Bf3 39.h3 f5 40.Rec1 Bxe4 41.Bxe4 fxe4 42.Kh1 Ra3 43.Rg1 Rd3 44.Rge1 e3 0-1
</pre>
=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=73 XiniX' ICGA Tournaments]
* [http://www.chessgames.com/player/xinix_%28computer%29.html The chess games of XINIX (Computer)] from [http://www.chessgames.com/index.html chessgames.com]
==Misc==
* [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinix Xinix - Wikipedia.nl] (Dutch)
* [[:Category:Leïla Martial|Leïla Martial]] - Avant de sourire, album Dance Floor, feat. [https://www.facebook.com/eric.perez.9022662 Eric Perez], [http://leilamartial.com/index.php/le-groupe/8-jean-christophe-jacques Jean-Christophe Jacques], and [http://www.actionjazz.fr/biographies/c/laurent-chavoit---contrebasse/index.html Laurent Chavoit], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOPXnWiggkM|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
=References=
<references />
'''[[Engines|Up one Level]]'''
[[Category:Leïla Martial]]
[[FILE:Paderborn_2002_06.jpg|border|right|thumb| XiniX with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley Smiley] [[Score]] indicator <ref>Image from no longer available Paderborn 2002 site by [http://www.harald-faber.de/ Harald Faber]</ref> ]]
'''XiniX''',<br/>
a [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]] compatible chess program written by [[Tony van Roon-Werten]]. Its first version including an own [[GUI|graphical user interface]] was written in [[Delphi]], a subsequent version from about 2004 re-written in [[Cpp|C++]]. The name XiniX was derived from the Dutch phrase for "Seeing Nothing", which appeared to be an issue during the [[DOCCC 2000]], when XiniX was not able to mate [[Ant]] with three queens due to a [[Engine Testing#bugs|bug]] with overlapping [[Score#ValueRange|score range]] of [[Score#MateScores|mate scores]] versus huge [[Material|material]] advantage, and finally lost on time <ref>[http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/honor.htm Defending Humanity's Honor] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Krabb%C3%A9 Tim Krabbé]</ref> . XiniX uses [[Bitboards|bitboards]], [[Principal Variation Search|PVS]], [[Null Move Pruning|Null move pruning]] and a quite sophisticated [[Evaluation|evaluation]] with [[Mate at a Glance]].
=Tournament Play=
Xinix played the [[WMCCC 2000]], the [[WMCCC 2001]] and the [[WCCC 2002]], various [[Dutch Open Computer Chess Championship|Dutch Open Computer Chess Championships]], [[International CSVN Tournament|International CSVN Tournaments]], the [[IPCCC 2002]], [[CCT Tournaments]] and two [[Livingston Chess960 Computer World Championship|Livingston Chess960 Computer World Championships]] in [[Chess960CWC 2005|2005]] and [[Chess960CWC 2006|2006]], operated by [[Elke van Roon]] and [[Tony van Roon-Werten]].
=Photos & Games=
[[FILE:femaleopWCCC2002.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px|link=http://old.csvn.nl/wk2002.html]]
[[WCCC 2002]]: [[Martin Giepmans]], Joke Wiegersma, [[Elke van Roon]] and [[Tony van Roon-Werten|Tony]] in [[SpiderChess]] - [[Xinix]] <ref>[http://old.csvn.nl/wk2002.html 10e WK Computerschaak, 6-11 juli 2002, Maastricht], old [[CSVN]] site in Dutch</ref> <ref>[https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/round.php?tournament=20&round=7&id=4 Maastricht 2002 - Chess - Round 7 - Game 4 (ICGA Tournaments)]</ref>
<pre>
[Event "WCCC 2002"]
[Site "Maastricht, The Netherlands"]
[Date "2002.07.10"]
[Round "7"]
[White "SpiderChess"]
[Black "XiniX"]
[Result "0-1"]
1.Nf3 d5 2.b3 f5 3.g3 e6 4.Bb2 Nf6 5.Bg2 Bd6 6.c4 Qe7 7.O-O c6 8.d4 Na6 9.Nbd2 O-O
10.a3 c5 11.dxc5 Nxc5 12.b4 Nce4 13.Qb3 a5 14.cxd5 axb4 15.Nxe4 fxe4 16.Nd2 bxa3
17.Bxf6 gxf6 18.Nxe4 Be5 19.Ra2 exd5 20.Nc3 Bxc3 21.Bxd5+ Kg7 22.Qxc3 Rd8 23.Qb3 Bf5
24.Qf3 Ra5 25.Bxb7 Rb8 26.Bd5 Bb1 27.Ra1 a2 28.Rc1 Rb4 29.Bc4 Qd6 30.Qg4+ Rg5
31.Qe6 Qxe6 32.Bxe6 Ra5 33.f3 Rb2 34.e4 Ra3 35.Rf1 Ra6 36.Bd5 Bd3 37.Rfe1 Be2
38.f4 Bf3 39.h3 f5 40.Rec1 Bxe4 41.Bxe4 fxe4 42.Kh1 Ra3 43.Rg1 Rd3 44.Rge1 e3 0-1
</pre>
=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=73 XiniX' ICGA Tournaments]
* [http://www.chessgames.com/player/xinix_%28computer%29.html The chess games of XINIX (Computer)] from [http://www.chessgames.com/index.html chessgames.com]
==Misc==
* [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinix Xinix - Wikipedia.nl] (Dutch)
* [[:Category:Leïla Martial|Leïla Martial]] - Avant de sourire, album Dance Floor, feat. [https://www.facebook.com/eric.perez.9022662 Eric Perez], [http://leilamartial.com/index.php/le-groupe/8-jean-christophe-jacques Jean-Christophe Jacques], and [http://www.actionjazz.fr/biographies/c/laurent-chavoit---contrebasse/index.html Laurent Chavoit], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOPXnWiggkM|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
=References=
<references />
'''[[Engines|Up one Level]]'''
[[Category:Leïla Martial]]
![border|right|thumb| XiniX with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley Smiley] [[Score](/File:Paderborn_2002_06.jpg){kind=link}