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LittleThought, a free UCI compatible chess engine by Nathan Thom, originally created in 2006. Since v1.05 in 2010, LittleThought is able to play Chess960.

=Descirption= LittleThought uses a rotated bitboard based, fully incremental move generator, and applies a PVS based alpha-beta search with several tree shaping and pruning routines, such as singular extensions, late move reductions, and null move pruning, and 4-way probe transposition table with other smaller hash tables for caching calculations of pawns, materials, and evaluation. The killer heuristic and history heuristic as well just in case IID improve move ordering. Up to 8 threads are supported for a YBWC based parallel search.

=Tournament Play= LittleThought played the NC3 2006 Australasian National Computer Chess Championship.

=Selected Games= NC3 2006, round 4, LittleThought - Fencer [Event "NC3 2006"] [Site "RedHill, Canberra, Australia"] [Date "2006.08.20"] [Round "4"] [White "LittleThought"] [Black "Fencer"] [Result "1-0"]

1.e4 Nc6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 Qxd5 4.Nf3 e6 5.a3 Bd7 6.Nc3 Qa5 7.Bd2 Qf5 8.Nb5 Rc8 9.Bd3 Qg4 10.h3 Qh5 11.g4 Qd5 12.c4 Ne5 13.Nxc7+ Rxc7 14.cxd5 Nxd3+ 15.Kf1 Nxb2 16.Qb3 Nc4 17.Bf4 Na5 18.Qb1 Rc4 19.Ne5 b6 20.Nxd7 Kxd7 21.Qb5+ Kd8 22.Bb8 Rc3 23.Bxa7 Nc4 24.Bxb6+ Nxb6 25.Qxb6+ Kd7 26.Re1 Bd6 27.Qb5+ Ke7 28.dxe6 fxe6 29.Qf5 e5 30.dxe5 Bxa3 31.Qg5+ 1-0

=See also=
 * LittleBlitzer

=Forum Posts=

2006 ...

 * Threading issue under Polyglot by Nathan Thom, Winboard Forum, September 18, 2006 » Thread, Polyglot
 * LittleThought v1.01 released by Nathan Thom, CCC, Jul 28, 2007
 * LittleThought 1.01 : 2157 by Patrick Buchmann, CCC, July 31, 2007
 * LittleThought 1.02 : 2240 by Patrick Buchmann, CCC, November 08, 2007
 * LittleThought 1.03 : 2229 by Patrick Buchmann, CCC, January 05, 2008
 * LittleThought 1.04 : 2344 by Patrick Buchmann, CCC, November 08, 2009
 * Little Thought 1.04 64-bit 2-CPU by Gabor Szots, CCC, December 18, 2009
 * YBWC details by Nathan Thom, CCC, December 31, 2009 » YBWC

2010 ...

 * LittleThought v1.05 released by Nathan Thom, CCC, April 20, 2010
 * LittleThought 1.05 : 2403 by Patrick Buchmann, CCC, April 21, 2010
 * LittleThought 1.052 64-bit Gauntlets (CCRL 40/40) by Aser Huerga, CCC, May 07, 2010
 * Nice attack from LittleThought 1.052 by Graham Banks, CCC, July 17, 2013

=External Links=
 * LittleThought Chess Software
 * LittleThought Chess Software - Change History
 * LittleBlitzer Chess Software


 * LittleThought 1.052 64-bit in CCRL 40/40

=References= Up one Level