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Homer, an UCI and Chess Engine Communication Protocol compliant chess engine by Daniel Mehrmann, written in C started in early 2003, first released in July 2005, available for multiple platforms and operating systems, such as Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris. Homer already had its tournament debut at the CCT7, and further played the CCT9 and the WCRCC 2007, The First Annual ACCA World Computer Rapid Chess Championship. Over the board, and able to play Chess960, Homer participated at the Chess960CWC 2005 and Chess960CWC 2006 Livingston Chess960 Computer World Championships, and the DOCCC 2005. Homer applies what Daniel calls Peak History Reduction to deal with saturation of the history scores for late move aka history reductions.

=Selected Games= CCT9, Homer - Buzz [Event "CCT9"] [Site "Internet Chess Club"] [Date "2007.02.17"] [Round "-"] [White "Homer"] [Black "Buzz"] [Result "1-0"]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nf3 c6 6.Bc4 Bg4 7.Bd2 Qc7 8.h3 Bxf3 9.Qxf3 e6 10.O-O-O Nbd7 11.g4 Nb6 12.Bb3 a5 13.Rhe1 a4 14.Bxe6 fxe6 15.Rxe6+ Kf7 16.Rde1 a3 17.b3 h6 18.Ne4 Nd7 19.Bf4 Qa5 20.Nxf6 Nxf6 21.Qd3 Qd5 22.R6e5 Qd7 23.Rf5 Kg8 24.c4 Bb4 25.Re2 Be7 26.Be5 b6 27.Rf3 Kf7 28.Rfe3 Ra7 29.f4 Qc8 30.g5 Ne8 31.g6+ Kf8 32.Kb1 Rg8 33.d5 c5 34.d6 Bh4 35.Bc3 Nf6 36.Re7 Rxe7 37.Rxe7 Qa8 38.Bxf6 Qh1+ 39.Kc2 Qh2+ 40.Re2 gxf6 41.Rxh2 Kg7 42.Qd5 Rf8 43.Rg2 Bg5 44.f5 Kh8 45.Qb7 Rf7 46.Qxf7 h5 47.Qh7# 1-0

=See also=
 * Ulysses

=Forum Posts=

2005 ...

 * Announcement: Homer 1.0 beta avaible for download by Daniel Mehrmann, CCC, July 12, 2005
 * Homer 1.0 beta4 with full Chess960 support are avaible for download by Daniel Mehrmann, CCC, August 08, 2005
 * Homer Mainz Linux version avaible by Daniel Mehrmann, CCC, August 18, 2005
 * Homer 1.0 released by Daniel Mehrmann, CCC, September 22, 2005
 * Homer 1.02 for Solaris 8/9 (SPARC) are avaible for download by Daniel Mehrmann, CCC, October 25, 2005
 * Homer Leiden version available by Daniel Mehrmann, CCC, November 16, 2005
 * Homer Leiden 64Bit available by Daniel Mehrmann, CCC, December 18, 2005
 * Updated: Homer Leiden 64Bit for MAC OSX by Daniel Mehrmann, CCC, December 21, 2005
 * Gauntlets Liste B 5' + 5" Homer Leiden new entry - games and lists by Karl-Heinz Söntges, CCC, February 20, 2006
 * PHR (Peak History Reduction) idea by Daniel Mehrmann, CCC, March 01, 2006 » Relative History Heuristic, Late Move Reductions

2010 ...

 * Re: Homer 3? by Daniel Mehrmann, CCC, December 23, 2013

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * The chess games of Homer from chessgames.com
 * Homer 2.01 in CCRL 40/40

Misc

 * Homer (poet) from Wikipedia
 * Life of Homer (Pseudo-Herodotus) from Wikipedia
 * Homeric Question from Wikipedia
 * Homeric scholarship from Wikipedia
 * Homer's Ithaca from Wikipedia
 * Homeric Nod from Wikipedia


 * Homerus of Byzantium from Wikipedia
 * 5700 Homerus from Wikipedia
 * Homer Simpson from Wikipedia

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