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'''Kholin''',<br/>
an [[UCI]] compliant [[:Category:Open Source|open source chess engine]] by [[Emil Fredrik Østensen]], written in [[C]] as part of his 2016 Master's thesis
<ref>[[Emil Fredrik Østensen]] ('''2016'''). ''A Complete Chess Engine Parallelized Using Lazy SMP''. M.Sc. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oslo University of Oslo], [https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/53769/master.pdf?sequence=1 pdf]</ref>.
Kholin is licensed under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GPL 3]] <ref>[https://github.com/emilfo/master GitHub - emilfo/master - Kholin Chess Engine]</ref>,
and focuses on [[Parallel Search|parallel search]], in particular [[Lazy SMP]].
=Features=
==[[Board Representation]]==
* [[Bitboards]]
* [[8x8 Board]]
* [[Magic Bitboards]]
==[[Search]]==
* [[Lazy SMP]]
* [[Iterative Deepening]]
* [[Aspiration Windows]]
* [[Alpha-Beta]]
* [[Shared Hash Table]]
** [[Shared Hash Table#Lockless|Lockless Hashing]]
** [[Zobrist Hashing]]
* [[Move Ordering]]
** [[History Heuristic]]
** [[Killer Heuristic]]
* [[Selectivity]]
** [[Null Move Pruning]]
** [[Check Extensions]]
==[[Evaluation]]==
* [[Tapered Eval]]
* [[Material]]
* [[Piece-Square Tables]]
* [[Rook on Open File|Rooks on (Semi) Open Files]]
* [[Pawn Structure]]
==Misc==
* [[Perft]]
=Publications=
* [[Emil Fredrik Østensen]] ('''2016'''). ''A Complete Chess Engine Parallelized Using Lazy SMP''. M.Sc. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oslo University of Oslo], [https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/53769/master.pdf?sequence=1 pdf]
=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [https://github.com/emilfo/master GitHub - emilfo/master - Kholin Chess Engine]
==Misc==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kholin Igor Kholin from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stormlight_Archive The Stormlight Archive from Wikipedia]
* [https://coppermind.net/wiki/House_Kholin House Kholin - The Coppermind - 17th Shard]
=References=
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'''Kholin''',<br/>
an [[UCI]] compliant [[:Category:Open Source|open source chess engine]] by [[Emil Fredrik Østensen]], written in [[C]] as part of his 2016 Master's thesis
<ref>[[Emil Fredrik Østensen]] ('''2016'''). ''A Complete Chess Engine Parallelized Using Lazy SMP''. M.Sc. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oslo University of Oslo], [https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/53769/master.pdf?sequence=1 pdf]</ref>.
Kholin is licensed under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GPL 3]] <ref>[https://github.com/emilfo/master GitHub - emilfo/master - Kholin Chess Engine]</ref>,
and focuses on [[Parallel Search|parallel search]], in particular [[Lazy SMP]].
=Features=
==[[Board Representation]]==
* [[Bitboards]]
* [[8x8 Board]]
* [[Magic Bitboards]]
==[[Search]]==
* [[Lazy SMP]]
* [[Iterative Deepening]]
* [[Aspiration Windows]]
* [[Alpha-Beta]]
* [[Shared Hash Table]]
** [[Shared Hash Table#Lockless|Lockless Hashing]]
** [[Zobrist Hashing]]
* [[Move Ordering]]
** [[History Heuristic]]
** [[Killer Heuristic]]
* [[Selectivity]]
** [[Null Move Pruning]]
** [[Check Extensions]]
==[[Evaluation]]==
* [[Tapered Eval]]
* [[Material]]
* [[Piece-Square Tables]]
* [[Rook on Open File|Rooks on (Semi) Open Files]]
* [[Pawn Structure]]
==Misc==
* [[Perft]]
=Publications=
* [[Emil Fredrik Østensen]] ('''2016'''). ''A Complete Chess Engine Parallelized Using Lazy SMP''. M.Sc. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oslo University of Oslo], [https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/53769/master.pdf?sequence=1 pdf]
=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [https://github.com/emilfo/master GitHub - emilfo/master - Kholin Chess Engine]
==Misc==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kholin Igor Kholin from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stormlight_Archive The Stormlight Archive from Wikipedia]
* [https://coppermind.net/wiki/House_Kholin House Kholin - The Coppermind - 17th Shard]
=References=
<references />
'''[[Engines|Up one Level]]'''
[[Category:Open Source]]
[[Category:GPL]]
[[Category:UCI]]
[[Category:X86]]
[[Category:X64]]
[[Category:PC]]
[[Category:Windows]]
[[Category:Linux]]
[[Category:Thesis]]
[[Category:Fiction]]
