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Beaches, (BeachesChess) a WinBoard compliant chess engine by Robert Pope, written in C++, first mentioned and hosted by Benny Antonsson in 2002. The later published source code with version history from 2006 until 2010 refers a bitboard engine - despite processing many of them per node, using 8-bit occupied state rotated bitboard lookups for sliding pieces - the control structure of the legal move generator and evaluation reminds more on a mailbox approach without piece list. Search is plain alpha-beta with transposition table, null move pruning and fractional ply decrements with an conventional evaluation, taking material and piece-square tables along with some pawn structure and king safety terms into account, as well the population of ored aggregated attacks per side.

=See also=
 * Abbess

=Forum Posts=

2002 ...

 * New WinBoard compatible engine - Beaches 0.96 by Robert Pope by Benny Antonsson, Winboard Forum, July 16, 2002
 * New WinBoard compatible engine - Beaches 0.96 by Robert Pope by Benny Antonsson, CCC, July 16, 2002
 * New version of Beaches by Benny Antonsson, Winboard Forum, September 04, 2002
 * BeaChes 1.2 by Benny Antonsson, Winboard Forum, October 03, 2002
 * Beaches 1.5 download by Robert Pope, Winboard Forum, January 22, 2003

2005 ...

 * Beaches playing random moves by Olivier Deville, Winboard Forum, May 05, 2005
 * make/unmake by Robert Pope, Winboard Forum, April 08, 2006 » Unmake Move
 * WAC 109 by Robert Pope, Winboard Forum, June 17, 2008 » Win at Chess
 * 0x88 engines by Robert Pope, CCC, May 01, 2009

2010 ...

 * Missing checkmates by Robert Pope, Winboard Forum, October 28, 2010
 * Beaches 1.20 by Robert Pope, CCC, September 21, 2015

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * BeachesChess
 * Beaches compiled by Jim Ablett, hosted by Kirill Kryukov
 * Beaches 2.32 in CCRL 40/4

Misc

 * Beach from Wikipedia
 * Beach (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
 * beach - Wiktionary

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