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Matant, a WinBoard compatible chess engine written by Antoni Szczepański in C, first released in July 2005. Matant played six Polish Computer Chess Championships, from 2002 until 2007. In its logged search statistics, Matant reports nullmove pruning, mate threats, check extensions, single reply extensions, transposition table information, number of nodes of main search and quiescence search, maximum positional score for both sides, and game phases in a 0-13 range from opening to endgame. Based on that information, Matant apparently applies lazy evaluation as well as tapered evaluation. Further, Matant uses Scorpio Bitbases.

=Selected Games= PCCC 2003, Matant - Armageddon [Event "PCCC 2003"] [Site "Łódź, Poland"] [Date "2003.08.?"] [Round "?"] [White "Matant"] [Black "Armageddon"] [Result "1-0"]

1.d4 e6 2.g3 c5 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Bg2 cxd4 5.O-O d5 6.Nxd4 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.Bg5 Nbd7 9.e4 dxe4 10.Bxe4 Qc7 11.Bf3 e4 12.Bf4 Qb6 13.Bg2 Rd8 14.N1d2 Nd5 15.Bg5 f6 16.c4 fxg5 17.cxd5 Bxd5 18.Qh5+ Qg6 19.Qxg6+ hxg6 20.Nxe4 Be7 21.Nd6+ Bxd6 22.Bxd5 b6 23.Nd4 Ne5 24.Ne6 Rd7 25.Nxg5 Be7 26.Rad1 Kf8 27.Ne6+ Kf7 28.Nf4+ Kf6 29.Rfe1 Rd6 30.h4 a5 31.Kg2 Rhd8 32.f3 Rh8 33.Bb3 Rxd1 34.Rxd1 b5 35.Nd5+ Kf7 36.Nc3+ Kf8 37.Rd5 Nc6 38.Rxb5 Rh5 39.Bd5 Nd8 40.Rxa5 Bb4 41.Rb5 Bxc3 42.bxc3 Re5 43.a4 Re3 44.c4 Ra3 45.a5 Ke7 46.Kh3 Ke8 47.Kg4 Ke7 48.c5 Kd7 49.Kg5 Ne6+ 50.Kxg6 Nc7 51.Rb7 Rxa5 52.c6+ Kd6 53.Be4 Ra8 54.h5 Rh8 55.Rxc7 Kxc7 56.g4 Re8 57.Kxg7 Re7+ 58.Kf6 Kd6 59.g5 Re6+ 60.Kf5 Re5+ 61.Kg4 1-0

=See also=
 * Mate
 * Mate at a Glance
 * Mate Distance Pruning
 * Mate Search
 * Ant

=Forum Posts=
 * Matant 5.03 wb2uci file question by Graham Banks, Winboard Forum, May 22, 2007
 * Matant 5.04 Gauntlet for CCRL 40/40 by Tirsa Poppins, CCC, December 24, 2018

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * Norbert's collection/Matant (Compilation) by Norbert Raimund Leisner, hosted by Kirill Kryukov
 * Matant 5.04 in KCEC
 * Matant 5.04 in CCRL 40/4

Misc

 * matant - Wiktionary
 * Mat from Wikipedia
 * Ant from Wikipedia
 * Langton's ant from Wikipedia
 * [[FILE:LangtonsAntAnimated.gif|none|border|text-bottom|link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langton%27s_ant]]


 * Rammstein - Links 2-3-4 (2001), YouTube Video

=References= Up one Level