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[[FILE:Lydekker cat fawn.png|border|right|thumb| Wildcat killing a Deer fawn <ref>Sketch of a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_wildcat European wildcat] killing a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer deer fawn], source: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lydekker Richard Lydekker] ('''1916'''). ''Wild life of the world : a descriptive survey of the geographical distribution of animals''. Vol. I, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat Wildcat from Wikipedia]</ref> ]]
'''WildCat''',<br/>
a [[WinBoard]], and since version 8, [[UCI]] compliant chess engine by [[Igor Korshunov]], written in [[Cpp|C++]], first released in November 2000.
=Description=
WildCat's [[Search|search]] relies on [[Principal Variation Search|PVS]] and [[Null Move Pruning|null move pruning]] with [[Null Move Pruning#ZugzwangVerification|verification search]], [[Late Move Reductions|late move reductions]], and [[Futility Pruning|futility pruning]] and [[Razoring|razoring]] at [[Frontier Nodes|frontier nodes]]. [[Move Ordering|Move ordering]] is considered by [[Killer Heuristic|killer-]] and [[History Heuristic|history heuristic]] - the history table indexed by [[Pieces|piece-type]] and [[Target Square|target square]], [[Internal Iterative Deepening|IID]] and [[Static Exchange Evaluation|SEE]].
WildCat keeps two best moves in the [[Transposition Table|transposition table]], and considers [[Check|checks]] at the first [[Ply|ply]] of the [[Quiescence Search|quiescence search]] <ref>[http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/Norbert%27s%20collection/WildCat%20%28Compilation%29/v8/history.txt WildCat/v8/history.txt]</ref>.
=Tournament Play=
So far, WildCat played the [[CCT5]] and [[CCT6]] [[CCT Tournaments]], and was winner of the [[CCCCISC 2008]], the first [[Computer Chess Championship of CIS Countries]].
=Selected Games=
[[CCCCISC 2008]], round 5, [[WildCat]] - [[Booot]] <ref>[http://www.sdchess.ru/febr_march_08.htm Новости за февраль - март 2008 года, 29 февраля 2008 г.] from [http://www.sdchess.ru/ sdchess.ru]</ref>
<pre>
[Event "CCCCISC 2008"]
[Site "Moscow SDCHESS RGSU"]
[Date "2008.03.02"]
[Round "5"]
[White "WildCat 8 CIS"]
[Black "Booot 4.14 Moscow"]
[Result "1-0"]
1.d4 e6 2.e4 d5 3.Nd2 c5 4.Ngf3 cxd4 5.exd5 Qxd5 6.Bc4 Qd6 7.O-O Nf6 8.Nb3
Nc6 9.Nbxd4 Nxd4 10.Nxd4 Bd7 11.b3 Be7 12.a4 Qb8 13.Qf3 O-O 14.Bg5 Qe5
15.Bxf6 Bxf6 16.Qxb7 Qd6 17.c3 Bxd4 18.cxd4 Bc6 19.Qa6 Rfb8 20.Rac1 Rb6
21.Qa5 Qxd4 22.Rcd1 Qf4 23.Rd3 Rbb8 24.Rfd1 h6 25.Qc3 Rc8 26.Rg3 g5 27.Rd4
Qf5 28.h4 Bd5 29.hxg5 hxg5 30.Rh4 f6 31.f4 Bxc4 32.fxg5 Kf7 33.gxf6 Rg8
34.Rxc4 Qb1+ 35.Kh2 Rh8+ 36.Rh3 Rxh3+ 37.Qxh3 Qf5 38.Rc7+ Kxf6 39.Qh6+ Qg6
40.Qh4+ Qg5 1-0
</pre>
=See also=
* [[Bobcat]]
* [[CookieCat]]
* [[Murka]]
=Forum Posts=
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=167664 WildCat 2.55 Winboard Engine is Released!] by [[Arturo Ochoa]], [[CCC]], May 03, 2001
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=278919 WildCat 2.74 is available] by [[Igor Korshunov|Igor V. Korshunov]], [[CCC]], January 22, 2003
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=288832 WildCat 2.79 is available] by [[Igor Korshunov|Igor V. Korshunov]], [[CCC]], March 03, 2003
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5876 WildCat 7] by [[Igor Korshunov]], [[Computer Chess Forums|WinBoard Forum]], November 16, 2006
=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [http://www.igorkorshunov.narod.ru/WildCat/ WildCat download page]
* [http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/Norbert%27s%20collection/WildCat%20%28Compilation%29/ Index of /chess/engines/Norbert's collection/WildCat (Compilation)] by [[Norbert Raimund Leisner]], hosted by [[Kirill Kryukov]]
==Misc==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat Wildcat from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_%28disambiguation%29 Wildcat (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_banking Wildcat banking from Wikipedia]
: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_strike_action Wildcat strike action from Wikipedia]
: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17493_Wildcat 17493 Wildcat from Wikipedia]
* [[:Category:Gato Barbieri|Gato Barbieri]] - [https://www.discogs.com/Gato-Barbieri-El-Gato/release/4411522 El Gato], (1975) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: feat. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Nelson Oliver Nelson], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Spinozza David Spinozza], [https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/255113-Romeo-Penque Romeo Penque], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Bodner Phil Bodner], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Bank Danny Bank], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Jones Hank Jones], [[:Category:Ron Carter|Ron Carter]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Purdie Bernard Purdie], [[:Category:Airto Moreira|Airto]]
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEHmbyB52vw|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
=References=
<references />
'''[[Engines|Up one Level]]'''
[[Category:WinBoard]]
[[Category:UCI]]
[[Category:Mammal]]
[[Category:Gato Barbieri]]
[[Category:Ron Carter]]
[[Category:Airto Moreira]]
[[FILE:Lydekker cat fawn.png|border|right|thumb| Wildcat killing a Deer fawn <ref>Sketch of a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_wildcat European wildcat] killing a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer deer fawn], source: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lydekker Richard Lydekker] ('''1916'''). ''Wild life of the world : a descriptive survey of the geographical distribution of animals''. Vol. I, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat Wildcat from Wikipedia]</ref> ]]
'''WildCat''',<br/>
a [[WinBoard]], and since version 8, [[UCI]] compliant chess engine by [[Igor Korshunov]], written in [[Cpp|C++]], first released in November 2000.
=Description=
WildCat's [[Search|search]] relies on [[Principal Variation Search|PVS]] and [[Null Move Pruning|null move pruning]] with [[Null Move Pruning#ZugzwangVerification|verification search]], [[Late Move Reductions|late move reductions]], and [[Futility Pruning|futility pruning]] and [[Razoring|razoring]] at [[Frontier Nodes|frontier nodes]]. [[Move Ordering|Move ordering]] is considered by [[Killer Heuristic|killer-]] and [[History Heuristic|history heuristic]] - the history table indexed by [[Pieces|piece-type]] and [[Target Square|target square]], [[Internal Iterative Deepening|IID]] and [[Static Exchange Evaluation|SEE]].
WildCat keeps two best moves in the [[Transposition Table|transposition table]], and considers [[Check|checks]] at the first [[Ply|ply]] of the [[Quiescence Search|quiescence search]] <ref>[http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/Norbert%27s%20collection/WildCat%20%28Compilation%29/v8/history.txt WildCat/v8/history.txt]</ref>.
=Tournament Play=
So far, WildCat played the [[CCT5]] and [[CCT6]] [[CCT Tournaments]], and was winner of the [[CCCCISC 2008]], the first [[Computer Chess Championship of CIS Countries]].
=Selected Games=
[[CCCCISC 2008]], round 5, [[WildCat]] - [[Booot]] <ref>[http://www.sdchess.ru/febr_march_08.htm Новости за февраль - март 2008 года, 29 февраля 2008 г.] from [http://www.sdchess.ru/ sdchess.ru]</ref>
<pre>
[Event "CCCCISC 2008"]
[Site "Moscow SDCHESS RGSU"]
[Date "2008.03.02"]
[Round "5"]
[White "WildCat 8 CIS"]
[Black "Booot 4.14 Moscow"]
[Result "1-0"]
1.d4 e6 2.e4 d5 3.Nd2 c5 4.Ngf3 cxd4 5.exd5 Qxd5 6.Bc4 Qd6 7.O-O Nf6 8.Nb3
Nc6 9.Nbxd4 Nxd4 10.Nxd4 Bd7 11.b3 Be7 12.a4 Qb8 13.Qf3 O-O 14.Bg5 Qe5
15.Bxf6 Bxf6 16.Qxb7 Qd6 17.c3 Bxd4 18.cxd4 Bc6 19.Qa6 Rfb8 20.Rac1 Rb6
21.Qa5 Qxd4 22.Rcd1 Qf4 23.Rd3 Rbb8 24.Rfd1 h6 25.Qc3 Rc8 26.Rg3 g5 27.Rd4
Qf5 28.h4 Bd5 29.hxg5 hxg5 30.Rh4 f6 31.f4 Bxc4 32.fxg5 Kf7 33.gxf6 Rg8
34.Rxc4 Qb1+ 35.Kh2 Rh8+ 36.Rh3 Rxh3+ 37.Qxh3 Qf5 38.Rc7+ Kxf6 39.Qh6+ Qg6
40.Qh4+ Qg5 1-0
</pre>
=See also=
* [[Bobcat]]
* [[CookieCat]]
* [[Murka]]
=Forum Posts=
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=167664 WildCat 2.55 Winboard Engine is Released!] by [[Arturo Ochoa]], [[CCC]], May 03, 2001
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=278919 WildCat 2.74 is available] by [[Igor Korshunov|Igor V. Korshunov]], [[CCC]], January 22, 2003
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=288832 WildCat 2.79 is available] by [[Igor Korshunov|Igor V. Korshunov]], [[CCC]], March 03, 2003
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5876 WildCat 7] by [[Igor Korshunov]], [[Computer Chess Forums|WinBoard Forum]], November 16, 2006
=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [http://www.igorkorshunov.narod.ru/WildCat/ WildCat download page]
* [http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/Norbert%27s%20collection/WildCat%20%28Compilation%29/ Index of /chess/engines/Norbert's collection/WildCat (Compilation)] by [[Norbert Raimund Leisner]], hosted by [[Kirill Kryukov]]
==Misc==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat Wildcat from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_%28disambiguation%29 Wildcat (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_banking Wildcat banking from Wikipedia]
: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_strike_action Wildcat strike action from Wikipedia]
: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17493_Wildcat 17493 Wildcat from Wikipedia]
* [[:Category:Gato Barbieri|Gato Barbieri]] - [https://www.discogs.com/Gato-Barbieri-El-Gato/release/4411522 El Gato], (1975) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: feat. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Nelson Oliver Nelson], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Spinozza David Spinozza], [https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/255113-Romeo-Penque Romeo Penque], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Bodner Phil Bodner], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Bank Danny Bank], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Jones Hank Jones], [[:Category:Ron Carter|Ron Carter]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Purdie Bernard Purdie], [[:Category:Airto Moreira|Airto]]
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEHmbyB52vw|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
=References=
<references />
'''[[Engines|Up one Level]]'''
[[Category:WinBoard]]
[[Category:UCI]]
[[Category:Mammal]]
[[Category:Gato Barbieri]]
[[Category:Ron Carter]]
[[Category:Airto Moreira]]
