TSCP

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Simplicius Simplicissimus [1]

TSCP,
Tom's Simple Chess Program has been written by Tom Kerrigan in 1997 as a device to show the basics of the chess programming. On its home page [2] one can find not only the program itself, but also a couple of derivatives, like a version with null move pruning or with a bitboard move generator. TSCP 1.81 was the test engne in Mannen's and Wiering's computer chess learning experiments, where they trained several different chess evaluation functions (neural networks) by using TD(λ) learning on a set of database games, published in 2004/05 [3] [4].

Features

Licensing

TSCP is open source, but does not fall under GPL or similar licenses, which means that any derivative work must be approved by the author and most likely should not become open source, as it would open the path for violating author's copyright.

Legal derivatives

Clones

(as listed by author) [12]

  • KasparovX
  • Squash
  • Replicant
  • Tuxedo

See also

Forum Posts

1997 ...

2000 ...

Re: Detecting three-fold repetition? by John Stanback, CCC, July 17, 2000 » SCP Repetition detection
TSCP with bitboards by Russell Reagan, CCC, June 01, 2003

2010 ...

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