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BlackBishop, a free Chess Engine Communication Protocol and UCI compliant chess engine by Andreas Herrmann, written in Delphi and first released in April 2004. BlackBishop evolved from his former engine Holmes, and applies NegaScout with null move and futility pruning along with lazy evaluation, maintains attack tables for king safety and other evaluation features, and generates moves with the help of piece lists. BlackBishop was most active in 2004, playing the IPCCC 2004 and CCT6.

=Selected Games= CCT6, round 2, Tao - BlackBishop [Event "CCT6 45 10"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2004.01.31"] [Round "2"] [White "Tao"] [Black "BlackBishop"] [Result "0-1"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 Ne7 5.Bd2 b6 6.Qh5 c5 7.Nf3 g6 8.Qg4 Nbc6 9.a3 Bxc3 10.bxc3 Qc7 11.Bd3 c4 12.Be2 h5 13.Qh3 Ba6 14.Bg5 O-O-O 15.Bf6 Rhf8 16.Ng5 Kb8 17.O-O Rd7 18.Nh7 Rc8 19.Bg5 Rh8 20.Nf6 Rdd8 21.a4 Nf5 22.Rab1 Rc8 23.f4 Bb7 24.Qf3 Nce7 25.a5 bxa5 26.Rb5 a6 27.Rc5 Bc6 28.Ra1 a4 29.Rxa4 Bxa4 30.Rxc7 Rxc7 31.Qf1 Bxc2 32.Qa1 Ka7 33.Qa5 Rhc8 34.h3 Bd3 35.Bf3 Rb7 36.Kh2 Ne3 37.Qa4 N7f5 38.h4 Nf1+ 39.Kg1 N1g3 40.Kh2 Rb1 41.Bd1 Nf1+ 42.Kg1 N1e3 43.Kh2 0-1

=See also=
 * Holmes

=Forum Posts=
 * perpetual check recognition by Andreas Herrmann, CCC, January 30, 2004 » Repetitions
 * BlackBishop 0.35 by Andreas Herrmann, Winboard Forum, November 04, 2006
 * BlackBishop 0.470 by Andreas Herrmann, Winboard Forum, November 13, 2006
 * BlackBishop 1.0 by Andreas Herrmann, Winboard Forum, June 07, 2009

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * Engine Download List from Ron Murawski's Computer-Chess Wiki
 * BlackBishop 1.0 in CCRL 40/40

Misc

 * Black Bishop from Wikipedia
 * Black Bishop (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
 * Harry Leland from Wikipedia
 * Walter Bishop, Jr.'s 4th Cycle, Keeper of My Soul - Summertime, Black Jazz Version, YouTube Video

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