MSCP

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MSCP, Marcel's Simple Chess Program by Marcel van Kervinck, a small, simple, yet complete open source chess engine released under the GNU GPL. It works with both, the Chess Engine Communication Protocol and icsdrone.

=Features=

Board Representation

 * 8x8 Board

Search

 * Iterative Deepening
 * Aspiration Windows
 * Alpha-Beta
 * Transposition Table
 * Quiescence Search
 * History Heuristic
 * Move Sorting

Evaluation

 * Material
 * Piece-Square Tables
 * Square Control

Misc

 * Opening Book

=MSCP-PAR= As subject of his Bachelor thesis, Parallelizing a Simple Chess Program,  Brian Greskamp implemented a parallel version of MSCP dubbed MSCP-PAR, using principal variation splitting.

=See also=
 * Floyd
 * Rookie
 * TSCP

=Derivatives=
 * Djenghis

=Publications=
 * Brian Greskamp (2003). Parallelizing a Simple Chess Program. pdf

=Forum Posts=
 * Other programs like TSCP, SCP, and MSCP? by Pete Galati, CCC, August 11, 1999

=External Links=
 * MSCP - Marcel's Simple Chess Program

=References=

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