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SnailChess, an experimental WinBoard compliant chess engine by Rasjid Chan with the fame of a slow searcher, written in C, first released in November 1999. SnailChess started as plain alpha-beta searcher, SnailChess 1.07 used NegaScout with transposition table and null move pruning, an intermediate SnailSCP was a partial clone of TSCP. The last public SnailChess 4.013 was released in June 2002. Then SnailChess became a testbed for various board representations and move generation techniques, using incremental updated attack tables and various bitboard methods such as rotated and magic bitboards, and applied an iterative search with a stack of structs.

=Forum Posts=

1999

 * New kid on the block : Snailchess by K1, Winboard Forum, November 04, 1999
 * SOS 031199, Ant 4.16 und SnailChess 1.01 by Andreas Herrmann, CCC, November 22, 1999

2000 ...

 * SnailChess-new release by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, June 03, 2000
 * SnailChess ver 1.07 by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, September 28, 2000
 * SnailChess Copper, a new re-write by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, May 12, 2001
 * SnailChess Copper ver 2.1 by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, May 18, 2001
 * SnailChess Ver 3.01 is now at homepage by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, November 19, 2001
 * SnailChess by Andreas Herrmann, Winboard Forum, January 08, 2002
 * SnailChess Copper Revived- Ver 4.0 by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, June 21, 2002

2005 ...

 * Does simple futility prune work by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, March 27, 2005
 * Re: NPS by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, September 01, 2005
 * Help! SnailChess Debug problem by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, December 28, 2005
 * Re: Fastest Magic Move Bitboard Generator ready to use by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, August 28, 2006
 * Re: Help Finding X by Rasjid Chan, CCC, June 09, 2007 » KPK

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * Engine Download List from Ron Murawski's Computer-Chess Wiki
 * SnailChess 4.013 in CCRL 40/4
 * SnailChess 4.013 in KCEC

Misc

 * Snail from Wikipedia
 * Snail (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
 * Helix (gastropod) from Wikipedia
 * Snail slime from Wikipedia
 * A snail can slide over a razor blade without being hurt. | Wikistupidia
 * SKNAIL - The Other Side, produced by Bastien Bron, YouTube Video

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