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Hopeless, (Hopeless Chess) a Winboard compliant open source chess engine by Pawel Koziol, written in Pascal, early versions were incorporated inside the stand-alone chess program Clericus written in Delphi, featuring an own GUI. Hopeless played the PCCC 2006. In 2020 Hopeless and Clericus were revived by Roland Chastain, using Free Pascal and Lazarus

=Features=

Board Representation

 * Piece-Lists
 * 0x88 Board indexing the Piece-List

Search

 * Iterative Deepening
 * Aspiration Windows
 * Principal Variation Search
 * Transposition Table
 * Move Ordering
 * MVV/LVA
 * Internal Iterative Deepening
 * Killer Heuristic
 * History Heuristic
 * Selectivity
 * Null Move Pruning
 * Check Extensions
 * Passed Pawn Extensions
 * Quiescence Search

Evaluation

 * Material
 * Asymmetric Evaluation
 * Piece-Square Tables
 * Mobility
 * Trapped Pieces
 * Evaluation of Pieces
 * Knight Outposts
 * Rooks on (Semi) Open Files
 * Pawn Structure
 * Weak Pawns
 * Doubled Pawns
 * Pawn Center
 * Passed Pawns
 * King Safety
 * Pawn Shelter
 * Attacking King Zone
 * Patterns
 * Fianchetto
 * Tacticcal Patterns

=See also=
 * Brainless
 * Clericus

=Forum Posts=
 * hopeless chess / clericus release by Pawel Koziol, {{CCC]], July 05, 2007
 * Re: new hopeless/clericus release by Pawel Koziol, {{CCC]], August 15, 2007
 * new hopeless / clericus and new www by Pawel Koziol, {{CCC]], November 27, 2007
 * Clericus/Hopeless ported to Lazarus by Roland Chastain, {{CCC]], August 01, 2020

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * Clericus Chess
 * Clericus Chess - Evaluation Function
 * Hopeless Lazarus · GitLab hosted by Roland Chastain

Misc

 * hopeless - Wiktionary
 * Hopeless from Wikipedia
 * Hopeless (Lichtenstein) from Wikipedia
 * Susan Weinert, Martin Weinert, Hardy Fischötter - Hopeless Case, Kumanovo Jazz Festival, August 2004, YouTube Video

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