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Minic, a Chess Engine Communication Protocol compliant open source chess engine by Vivien Clauzon, initially squashed inside a single C++ source file licensed under the GPL v3.0. As a weekend project, it started as 2000 lines of code mailbox approach using PVS with TT, NMP, LMP and eval based on psts, and evolved to a bitboard engine using HQ, lazy SMP, and Texel tuning to optimize its tapered eval.

=MinicNNUE= With the advent of NNUE in summer 2020, Vivien Clauzon released Minic 2.47 aka MinicNNUE with Stockfish's NNUE network architecture and weight files, yielding in a strength increase of about 200 Elo versus Minic with standard evaluation, but the demand that this NNUE version should not replace Minic in official rating lists. Minic 2.50 incorporates the training code from Nodchip's Stockfish repository, so MinicNNUE is now able to produce weight files by its own play.

=See also=
 * Weini

=Forum Posts=
 * A complete 2000 lines of code engine by Vivien Clauzon, CCC, October 20, 2018
 * Asus tuf z390 + core i7 9700k by Vivien Clauzon, CCC, February 28, 2019
 * Feature score use in search by Vivien Clauzon, CCC, July 20, 2019
 * Minic raw speed by Vivien Clauzon, CCC, November 09, 2019
 * Minic version 2 by Vivien Clauzon, CCC, March 31, 2020
 * Re: Minic version 2 by Vivien Clauzon, CCC, August 08, 2020 » NNUE


 * Black crushing white, weird ? by Vivien Clauzon, CCC, October 14, 2020 » NNUE

=External Links=
 * GitHub - tryingsomestuff/Minic: A simple chess engine to learn and play with
 * Minic in CCRL 40/40.

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