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Vanilla Chess

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'''Vanilla Chess''', (Vchess)<br/>
a [[WinBoard]] compliant [[:Category:Open Source Engines|open source chess engine]] by [[Shaun Press]], written in [[C]]. It features a [[0x88]] board and an offset [[Move Generation|move generator]] with its nested loops over [[Pieces|pieces]], [[Direction|directions]], and for [[Sliding Pieces|sliding pieces]], from the closest to the farthest [[Target Square|target square]] per direction. Its [[Search|search]] is vanilla plain [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta]] with [[Iterative Deepening|iterative deepening]], [[Aspiration Windows|aspiration windows]], [[History Heuristic|history heuristic]] and [[Transposition Table|transposition table]], according to its author, the [[Evaluation|evaluation]] is a bit messy. Vanilla Chess has been around since 1996, participating in all [[Australasian National Computer Chess Championship|NC3]] events.
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'''[[Engines|Up one Level]]'''
[[Category:Open Source]]
[[Category:WinBoard]]

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