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Alarm, (Deamon) a WinBoard compliant chess engine by Benny Antonsson and Erik Robertsson, written in C++. Alarm, the Diabolic Chess Engine, was first released in July 2003 , and was first mentioned in 2001 formerly called Deamon. Alarm played four CCT Tournaments from 2003 to 2006, the CCT5, CCT6, CCT7 and the CCT8.

=Features=

Board Representation

 * 8x8 Board
 * Bitboards
 * Rotated Bitboards

Search

 * Iterative Deepening
 * Aspiration Windows
 * NegaScout
 * Alpha-Beta
 * Transposition Table
 * Selectivity
 * Quiescence Search
 * Adaptive Null Move Pruning
 * Check Extensions
 * Move Ordering
 * MVV/LVA
 * History Heuristic
 * Killer Heuristic

Evaluation

 * Material
 * Bishop Pair
 * Piece-Square Tables
 * Pawn Structure
 * Pawn Hash Table
 * Weak Pawns
 * Backward Pawn
 * Doubled Pawn
 * Isolated Pawn
 * Passed Pawn
 * Pawn Center
 * King Safety
 * Outposts
 * Bishop Fianchetto
 * Trapped Pieces
 * Rook on Seventh
 * Connectivity
 * and more ...

Misc

 * Opening Book from PGN-file

=See also=
 * Embracer
 * StAndersen

=Forum Posts=
 * Loggo for Deamon by Benny Antonsson, CCC, November 28, 2001
 * St.Andersen vs. Deamon 0.87A by Benny Antonsson, CCC, November 30, 2001 » StAndersen
 * Another Nordic seems to grow (especially to Odd Gunnar) by Günther Simon, Winboard Forum, December 01, 2001
 * Swedish programs by Benny Antonsson, CCC, December 04, 2001
 * Winboard engine Alarm is released by Benny Antonsson, CCC, July 16, 2003
 * Winboard engine Alarm is released by Benny Antonsson, Winboard Forum, July 16, 2003
 * Updated engine: Alarm 0.92.4 by Benny Antonsson, Winboard Forum, August 05, 2003
 * Testposition of Matador-Alarm CCT6 by Stefan Knappe, CCC, February 03, 2004 » CCT6
 * New version of Alarm by Benny Antonsson, CCC, May 12, 2004

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * Alarm - WinBoard Engine (Internet Archive)
 * Alarm - Technical (Internet Archive)
 * Alarm/Deamon - Revision log (Internet Archive)


 * Computer-Chess Wiki - Engine Download List
 * Alarm 0.93.1 in CCRL 40/2
 * Alarm 0.93.1 in KCEC

Misc

 * alarm - Wiktionary
 * Alarm - Wiktionary
 * alarm - Wiktionary (Swedish)
 * Alarm - Wiktionary (Swedish)
 * Daemon (computing) from Wikipedia
 * Alarm (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
 * Alarm Pressure - Шелдон Купер, YouTube Video

=References= Up one Level