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Glass, an UCI compliant chess engine, written by the authors of the CPW-Engine, Pawel Koziol and Edmund Moshammer, first released in December 2008 - and not to confused with Chess for Glass. Glass comes with 21 documented personalities at varying levels of strength, and with its own opening book format. Version Glass 2.0 PERSONALITY, released on February 25, 2012, was announced as the last version of this developement line.

=Features=

Board Representation

 * Bitboards
 * Staged Move Generation

Search

 * Iterative Deepening
 * Alpha-Beta Principal Variation Search
 * Transposition Table
 * Null Move Pruning
 * Late Move Reductions
 * Razoring
 * Futility Pruning
 * Enhanced Transposition Cutoff
 * Principal Variation Hash Table
 * History Heuristic
 * Quiescence Search
 * SEE
 * Delta Pruning

Evaluation

 * Evaluation Hash Table
 * Material
 * Material Imbalance
 * Piece-Square Tables
 * Mobility
 * Asymmetric Evaluation
 * King Safety
 * Pawn Storm

Misc

 * Opening Book
 * Nalimov Tablebases
 * Learning (Persistent Hash Table)

=See also=
 * CPW-Engine
 * Rodent

=Forum Posts=

2008 ...

 * Introducing Glass chess engine by Pawel Koziol, CCC, December 13, 2008
 * Glass 1.0 update by Edmund Moshammer, CCC, March 31, 2009
 * Glass 1.1 by Pawel Koziol, CCC, April 06, 2009
 * Glass 1.2 released by Pawel Koziol, CCC, May 03, 2009
 * Glass Opening Book Manager 1.0 - Released! by Edmund Moshammer, CCC, May 03, 2009
 * Glass 1.3 release by Pawel Koziol, CCC, June 30, 2009

2010 ...

 * Glass 1.5 release by Pawel Koziol, CCC, March 28, 2010
 * Glass 1.6 - New with Personalities!! by Edmund Moshammer, CCC, July 13, 2010
 * Glass 1.7 release by Pawel Koziol, CCC, July 20, 2011
 * Glass 1.7 agressive = CSTal at his best and more by Fernando Villegas, CCC, July 23, 2011
 * Glass 1.8 released by Pawel Koziol, CCC, November 27, 2011
 * Glass 1.9 released by Edmund Moshammer, CCC, July 06, 2012
 * Glass news by Pawel Koziol, CCC, February 25, 2013

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * Glass Homepage
 * Glass at CCRL 40/40

Misc

 * Glass from Wikipedia
 * Glass (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
 * Agnes Obel - Citizen Of Glass (2016), YouTube Video

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