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[[FILE:Yin and Yang.svg|border|right|thumb| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism Taoist] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taijitu Taijitu] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang Yin and yang from Wikipedia]</ref> ]]
'''Tao''',<br/>
a [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]] and later [[UCI]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=242621 About Tao 5.2] by [[Bas Hamstra]], [[CCC]], July 25, 2002</ref> compliant chess engine by [[Bas Hamstra]], famous for its attacking playing style encouraged by an [[Opening Book|opening book]] cooked by [[Cock de Gorter]] <ref>[http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1599 Shredder and Ruffian lead in Leiden] by [[Eric van Reem]] and [[Theo van der Storm]], [[ChessBase]], April 24, 2004 » [[ICT 2004]]</ref>. Tao played the [[WMCCC 2001]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maastricht Maastricht], six [[Dutch Open Computer Chess Championship|Dutch Open Computer Chess Championships]] and four [[International CSVN Tournament|International CSVN Tournaments]] from [[DOCCC 2000|2000]] until [[DOCCC 2005|2005]], and three [[CCT Tournaments]].
=Description=
Tao is a [[Bitboards|bitboard]] engine that uses [[Principal Variation Search|PVS]] without root [[Aspiration Windows|aspiration windows]]. Tao applies [[Incremental Updates|incremental updated]] [[Attack and Defend Maps|attacks]], incremental [[Move Generation|move generation]], uses [[Static Exchange Evaluation|SEE]] to prune losing [[Captures|captures]], and [[Extensions|extends]] [[Check Extensions|checks]], [[One Reply Extensions|one reply]], [[Recapture Extensions|recaptures]] and [[Mate Threat Extensions|mate threats]] along with [[Null Move Pruning|null move pruning]] of [[Depth Reduction R|R=2]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=72400 Tao] by [[Bas Hamstra]], [[CCC]], October 08, 1999</ref>.
It further considers [[Check|check]] giving moves in [[Quiescence Search|quiescence search]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=208110 Re: Tao at ICC] by [[Bas Hamstra]], [[CCC]], January 17, 2002</ref>. Version 5.5 uses [[Evaluation|evaluation]] [[Automated Tuning|tuning]] based on [[Temporal Difference Learning|temporal differences]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=149645 Tao update] by [[Bas Hamstra]], [[CCC]], January 12, 2001</ref>.
=Photos & Games=
[[FILE:Hamstra32.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|560px|link=http://old.csvn.nl/gallery21.html]]
[[DOCCC 2004]]: [[Elke van Vlierberghe]] and [[Bas Hamstra]], [[Tao]] - [[Deep Sjeng]] <ref>[http://old.csvn.nl/gallery21.html 24th Open Dutch Computer-Chess Championship 2004 Photo Gallery]</ref> <ref>[http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=37&Itemid=26&lang=en&limitstart=5 Downloads | Open Dutch Computer Chess Championships | Games]</ref>
<pre>
[Event "DOCCC 2004"]
[Site "Leiden Ned"]
[Date "2004.10.17"]
[Round "06"]
[White "Tao"]
[Black "Deep Sjeng"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
1.c3 e5 2.e4 d5 3.Qa4+ Nd7 4.exd5 Ngf6 5.c4 Bc5 6.Nc3 O-O 7.d3 Nb6 8.Qd1 Qe7 9.Bg5 h6
10.Bxf6 Qxf6 11.Nf3 Bd4 12.Be2 Qg6 13.O-O Bh3 14.Ne1 Bd7 15.Nc2 Bh3 16.Bf3 Bxc3 17.bxc3
Bf5 18.Bh5 Qh7 19.Ne1 e4 20.dxe4 Bxe4 21.Qd4 Rfe8 22.f3 Bf5 23.Rd1 Rad8 24.Rd2 c5 25.Qxc5
Rc8 26.Qb5 Nxc4 27.Rd4 Ne3 28.Rf2 g6 29.d6 Nd5 30.Rxd5 Rxe1+ 31.Rf1 Rxf1+ 32.Kxf1 Be6
33.d7 Rd8 34.Qa5 b6 35.Qxa7 Qg7 36.Qxb6 Qf8 37.Rd4 gxh5 38.a4 Qe7 39.Qc7 Rxd7 40.Rxd7 Bxd7
41.c4 Qe6 42.a5 Bc8 43.Qd8+ Kg7 44.Qd4+ Kg6 45.Kf2 Ba6 46.c5 h4 47.Qxh4 Qe2+ 48.Kg3 Qe5+
49.Qf4 Qxc5 50.Qe4+ Kg7 51.Qg4+ Kf8 52.Qf4 Qxa5 53.Qxh6+ Kg8 54.h3 Qe5+ 55.f4 Qe1+ 56.Kh2
Bd3 57.Qg5+ Bg6 58.Qd8+ Kg7 59.Qd4+ Kh7 60.Qc5 Qd2 61.Qe5 Qc2 62.Qf6 Qf2 63.Qe5 Kg8 64.Qg5
Kg7 65.Qe5+ f6 66.Qe7+ Bf7 67.Qe4 Kh6 68.Qf5 Qb2 69.Qd3 Bg6 70.Qd8 Kg7 71.Qd7+ Bf7 72.Qg4+
Kh6 73.Qf5 Bc4 74.Qe4 Ba2 75.Qf5 Bb3 76.Kg3 Qd4 77.Kh4 Bf7 78.g3 Bg6 79.Qc8 Kg7 80.Qc1 Bf5
81.Qe1 Kf7 82.Qe2 Be6 83.Qh5+ Kf8 84.Qh8+ 1/2-1/2
</pre>
=Publications=
* [[Raymond Smullyan]] ('''1977'''). ''The Tao Is Silent''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarperCollins HarperOne]
* [[Raymond Smullyan]] ('''1977'''). ''[http://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/godTaoist.html Is God a Taoist?]'' [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology |MIT]]
=Forum Posts=
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=72400 Tao] by [[Bas Hamstra]], [[CCC]], October 08, 1999
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=134675 Tao 4.3 (won against Quest, Dutch-ch 2000) is available !] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], [[CCC]], October 23, 2000
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=147907 Some questions on Tao] by [[Peter Berger]], [[CCC]], January 03, 2001
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=149645 Tao update] by [[Bas Hamstra]], [[CCC]], January 12, 2001
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=208102 Tao at ICC] by [[Bas Hamstra]], [[CCC]], January 17, 2002
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=210007 CCT4 Tao/Quark] by [[Bas Hamstra]], [[CCC]], January 26, 2002 » [[CCT4]], [[Quark]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=242621 About Tao 5.2] by [[Bas Hamstra]], [[CCC]], July 25, 2002
=External Links=
==Chess==
* [http://www.computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:download:engine_download_list Engine Download List] from [[Ron Murawski|Ron Murawski's]] [http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=home Computer-Chess Wiki]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=125 Tao's ICGA Tournaments]
* [http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/cgi/engine_details.cgi?print=Details&each_game=1&eng=Tao%205.6#Tao_5_6 Tao 5.6] in [[CCRL|CCRL 40/40]]
* [http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/kcec/cgi/engine_details.cgi?print=Details&each_game=1&eng=Tao%205.6 Tao 5.6] in [[KCEC]]
==Taoism==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism Taoism from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao Tao from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_%28disambiguation%29 Tao (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
=References=
<references />
'''[[Engines|Up one Level]]'''
[[Category:WinBoard]]
[[Category:UCI]]
[[Category:Metaphysics]]
[[FILE:Yin and Yang.svg|border|right|thumb| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism Taoist] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taijitu Taijitu] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang Yin and yang from Wikipedia]</ref> ]]
'''Tao''',<br/>
a [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]] and later [[UCI]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=242621 About Tao 5.2] by [[Bas Hamstra]], [[CCC]], July 25, 2002</ref> compliant chess engine by [[Bas Hamstra]], famous for its attacking playing style encouraged by an [[Opening Book|opening book]] cooked by [[Cock de Gorter]] <ref>[http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1599 Shredder and Ruffian lead in Leiden] by [[Eric van Reem]] and [[Theo van der Storm]], [[ChessBase]], April 24, 2004 » [[ICT 2004]]</ref>. Tao played the [[WMCCC 2001]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maastricht Maastricht], six [[Dutch Open Computer Chess Championship|Dutch Open Computer Chess Championships]] and four [[International CSVN Tournament|International CSVN Tournaments]] from [[DOCCC 2000|2000]] until [[DOCCC 2005|2005]], and three [[CCT Tournaments]].
=Description=
Tao is a [[Bitboards|bitboard]] engine that uses [[Principal Variation Search|PVS]] without root [[Aspiration Windows|aspiration windows]]. Tao applies [[Incremental Updates|incremental updated]] [[Attack and Defend Maps|attacks]], incremental [[Move Generation|move generation]], uses [[Static Exchange Evaluation|SEE]] to prune losing [[Captures|captures]], and [[Extensions|extends]] [[Check Extensions|checks]], [[One Reply Extensions|one reply]], [[Recapture Extensions|recaptures]] and [[Mate Threat Extensions|mate threats]] along with [[Null Move Pruning|null move pruning]] of [[Depth Reduction R|R=2]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=72400 Tao] by [[Bas Hamstra]], [[CCC]], October 08, 1999</ref>.
It further considers [[Check|check]] giving moves in [[Quiescence Search|quiescence search]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=208110 Re: Tao at ICC] by [[Bas Hamstra]], [[CCC]], January 17, 2002</ref>. Version 5.5 uses [[Evaluation|evaluation]] [[Automated Tuning|tuning]] based on [[Temporal Difference Learning|temporal differences]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=149645 Tao update] by [[Bas Hamstra]], [[CCC]], January 12, 2001</ref>.
=Photos & Games=
[[FILE:Hamstra32.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|560px|link=http://old.csvn.nl/gallery21.html]]
[[DOCCC 2004]]: [[Elke van Vlierberghe]] and [[Bas Hamstra]], [[Tao]] - [[Deep Sjeng]] <ref>[http://old.csvn.nl/gallery21.html 24th Open Dutch Computer-Chess Championship 2004 Photo Gallery]</ref> <ref>[http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=37&Itemid=26&lang=en&limitstart=5 Downloads | Open Dutch Computer Chess Championships | Games]</ref>
<pre>
[Event "DOCCC 2004"]
[Site "Leiden Ned"]
[Date "2004.10.17"]
[Round "06"]
[White "Tao"]
[Black "Deep Sjeng"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
1.c3 e5 2.e4 d5 3.Qa4+ Nd7 4.exd5 Ngf6 5.c4 Bc5 6.Nc3 O-O 7.d3 Nb6 8.Qd1 Qe7 9.Bg5 h6
10.Bxf6 Qxf6 11.Nf3 Bd4 12.Be2 Qg6 13.O-O Bh3 14.Ne1 Bd7 15.Nc2 Bh3 16.Bf3 Bxc3 17.bxc3
Bf5 18.Bh5 Qh7 19.Ne1 e4 20.dxe4 Bxe4 21.Qd4 Rfe8 22.f3 Bf5 23.Rd1 Rad8 24.Rd2 c5 25.Qxc5
Rc8 26.Qb5 Nxc4 27.Rd4 Ne3 28.Rf2 g6 29.d6 Nd5 30.Rxd5 Rxe1+ 31.Rf1 Rxf1+ 32.Kxf1 Be6
33.d7 Rd8 34.Qa5 b6 35.Qxa7 Qg7 36.Qxb6 Qf8 37.Rd4 gxh5 38.a4 Qe7 39.Qc7 Rxd7 40.Rxd7 Bxd7
41.c4 Qe6 42.a5 Bc8 43.Qd8+ Kg7 44.Qd4+ Kg6 45.Kf2 Ba6 46.c5 h4 47.Qxh4 Qe2+ 48.Kg3 Qe5+
49.Qf4 Qxc5 50.Qe4+ Kg7 51.Qg4+ Kf8 52.Qf4 Qxa5 53.Qxh6+ Kg8 54.h3 Qe5+ 55.f4 Qe1+ 56.Kh2
Bd3 57.Qg5+ Bg6 58.Qd8+ Kg7 59.Qd4+ Kh7 60.Qc5 Qd2 61.Qe5 Qc2 62.Qf6 Qf2 63.Qe5 Kg8 64.Qg5
Kg7 65.Qe5+ f6 66.Qe7+ Bf7 67.Qe4 Kh6 68.Qf5 Qb2 69.Qd3 Bg6 70.Qd8 Kg7 71.Qd7+ Bf7 72.Qg4+
Kh6 73.Qf5 Bc4 74.Qe4 Ba2 75.Qf5 Bb3 76.Kg3 Qd4 77.Kh4 Bf7 78.g3 Bg6 79.Qc8 Kg7 80.Qc1 Bf5
81.Qe1 Kf7 82.Qe2 Be6 83.Qh5+ Kf8 84.Qh8+ 1/2-1/2
</pre>
=Publications=
* [[Raymond Smullyan]] ('''1977'''). ''The Tao Is Silent''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarperCollins HarperOne]
* [[Raymond Smullyan]] ('''1977'''). ''[http://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/godTaoist.html Is God a Taoist?]'' [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology |MIT]]
=Forum Posts=
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=72400 Tao] by [[Bas Hamstra]], [[CCC]], October 08, 1999
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=134675 Tao 4.3 (won against Quest, Dutch-ch 2000) is available !] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], [[CCC]], October 23, 2000
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=147907 Some questions on Tao] by [[Peter Berger]], [[CCC]], January 03, 2001
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=149645 Tao update] by [[Bas Hamstra]], [[CCC]], January 12, 2001
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=208102 Tao at ICC] by [[Bas Hamstra]], [[CCC]], January 17, 2002
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=210007 CCT4 Tao/Quark] by [[Bas Hamstra]], [[CCC]], January 26, 2002 » [[CCT4]], [[Quark]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=242621 About Tao 5.2] by [[Bas Hamstra]], [[CCC]], July 25, 2002
=External Links=
==Chess==
* [http://www.computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:download:engine_download_list Engine Download List] from [[Ron Murawski|Ron Murawski's]] [http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=home Computer-Chess Wiki]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=125 Tao's ICGA Tournaments]
* [http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/cgi/engine_details.cgi?print=Details&each_game=1&eng=Tao%205.6#Tao_5_6 Tao 5.6] in [[CCRL|CCRL 40/40]]
* [http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/kcec/cgi/engine_details.cgi?print=Details&each_game=1&eng=Tao%205.6 Tao 5.6] in [[KCEC]]
==Taoism==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism Taoism from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao Tao from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_%28disambiguation%29 Tao (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
=References=
<references />
'''[[Engines|Up one Level]]'''
[[Category:WinBoard]]
[[Category:UCI]]
[[Category:Metaphysics]]
