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Octochess, a Chess Engine Communication Protocol and UCI compliant open source chess engine by Tim Kosse, written in C++ and licensed under the GPL. Octochess is cross-platform with binaries available to run under Windows and Linux. It was first released in February 2012.

=Features=
 * Multi-threaded Search
 * Tweakable Evaluation
 * Magic Bitboards
 * Principal Variation Search
 * Aspiration Windows
 * Lockless Transposition Hash Table
 * Null Move Pruning
 * Killer Heuristic
 * Internal Iterative Deepening
 * Static Exchange Evaluation
 * Late Move Reductions
 * Futility Pruning
 * Razoring

=Forum Posts=

2012 ...

 * Introducing Octochess by Tim Kosse, CCC, February 28, 2012
 * Octochess r4529 by Tim Kosse, CCC, March 25, 2012
 * Octochess r4632 by Tim Kosse, CCC, May 21, 2012
 * Octochess r4690 released by Tim Kosse, CCC, July 17, 2012
 * Octochess r4741 released by Tim Kosse, CCC, August 21, 2012
 * Octochess r4984 released by Tim Kosse, CCC, February 24, 2013
 * Octochess r5132 released by Tim Kosse, CCC, June 19, 2013
 * Octochess r5178 released by Tim Kosse, CCC, August 25, 2013
 * Octochess r5190 released by Tim Kosse, CCC, August 31, 2013

2015 ...

 * OctoChess source code rev 7482 by Norbert Raimund Leisner, CCC, May 11, 2016
 * Octochess r7533 sources! by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, May 26, 2016
 * OctoChess rev8520 by Tim Kosse by Norbert Raimund Leisner, CCC, August 13, 2017

2020 ...

 * Obtaining (or compiling) Octochess 5190 or r5506HK by Chris Lott, CCC, October 28, 2020

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * Octochess - An open source chess engine
 * svn - Revision 10052: /chess SVN source code repository
 * Octochess in CCRL 40/15

Misc

 * Octopus from Wikipedia
 * Common octopus from Wikipedia
 * octo - Wiktionary
 * Cuttlefish from Wikipedia
 * Van der Graaf Generator - Octopus, The Aerosol Grey Machine (1969),  YouTube Video

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