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'''Blikskottel''',<br/>
a [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]] compatible chess engine written (in an extremely part-time fashion) in [[C]] by [[Adam Oellermann]]. Blikskottel is an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans Afrikaans] slang term (meaning something like ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blighter blighter]'' or ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rascal rascal]'') <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=174758 Re: New winboard engine Blikskottel 0.4 ?] by [[Adam Oellermann]], [[CCC]], June 12, 2001</ref> <ref>[https://dsae.co.za/entry/blikskottel/e00853 Definition of Blikskottel in A Dictionary of South African English - DSAE]</ref>, but Blikskottel's development began in England, and Blikskottel is now resident in Scotland.
=Description=
Blikskottel is a simple [[Bitboards|bitboard-based]] [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta]] searcher.
The original version was written in [[Delphi]], intended to be an entry into a chess programming competition among a group of programmers.
After the other programmers failed to produce entries, Adam decided to continue anyway. The Delphi version was quickly replaced with C code (originally developed in [[Microsoft]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_C%2B%2B Visual C++],
but since being ported to [[Linux]] just about anything can compile Blikskottel now); much of this was written while on the train or watching TV, which perhaps accounts somewhat for the engine's lack of performance.
Blikskottel's strength tends to make sudden jumps forward during brief spurts of intense interest in chess programming by the author,
which then fade away as he realises just how awful the codebase is getting to be to work with; then, poor Blikskottel languishes - sometimes for years at a time.
=Forum Posts=
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=174754 New winboard engine Blikskottel 0.4 ?] by [[Andreas Herrmann]], [[CCC]], June 12, 2001
: [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=174758 Re: New winboard engine Blikskottel 0.4 ?] by [[Adam Oellermann]], [[CCC]], June 12, 2001
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=33961&p=128580 Blikskottel 0.4] by [[Andreas Herrmann]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], June 12, 2001
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=34208&p=129316 Blikskottel 0.5] by [[Andreas Herrmann]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], July 17, 2001
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=34672&p=131032 Blikskottel] by Darren, [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], October 02, 2001
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=194238 Blikskottel - New Version] by [[Adam Oellermann]], [[CCC]], October 25, 2001
=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150206222925/http://www.oellermann.com/Blikskottel Blikskottel | the website] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine Wayback Machine], 2015, 2006)
* [http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404/cgi/engine_details.cgi?print=Details&eng=Blikskottel%200.8 Blikskottel 0.8] in [[CCRL|CCRL Blitz]]
==Misc==
* [https://dsae.co.za/entry/blikskottel/e00853 Definition of Blikskottel in A Dictionary of South African English - DSAE]
=References=
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'''Blikskottel''',<br/>
a [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]] compatible chess engine written (in an extremely part-time fashion) in [[C]] by [[Adam Oellermann]]. Blikskottel is an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans Afrikaans] slang term (meaning something like ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blighter blighter]'' or ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rascal rascal]'') <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=174758 Re: New winboard engine Blikskottel 0.4 ?] by [[Adam Oellermann]], [[CCC]], June 12, 2001</ref> <ref>[https://dsae.co.za/entry/blikskottel/e00853 Definition of Blikskottel in A Dictionary of South African English - DSAE]</ref>, but Blikskottel's development began in England, and Blikskottel is now resident in Scotland.
=Description=
Blikskottel is a simple [[Bitboards|bitboard-based]] [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta]] searcher.
The original version was written in [[Delphi]], intended to be an entry into a chess programming competition among a group of programmers.
After the other programmers failed to produce entries, Adam decided to continue anyway. The Delphi version was quickly replaced with C code (originally developed in [[Microsoft]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_C%2B%2B Visual C++],
but since being ported to [[Linux]] just about anything can compile Blikskottel now); much of this was written while on the train or watching TV, which perhaps accounts somewhat for the engine's lack of performance.
Blikskottel's strength tends to make sudden jumps forward during brief spurts of intense interest in chess programming by the author,
which then fade away as he realises just how awful the codebase is getting to be to work with; then, poor Blikskottel languishes - sometimes for years at a time.
=Forum Posts=
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=174754 New winboard engine Blikskottel 0.4 ?] by [[Andreas Herrmann]], [[CCC]], June 12, 2001
: [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=174758 Re: New winboard engine Blikskottel 0.4 ?] by [[Adam Oellermann]], [[CCC]], June 12, 2001
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=33961&p=128580 Blikskottel 0.4] by [[Andreas Herrmann]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], June 12, 2001
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=34208&p=129316 Blikskottel 0.5] by [[Andreas Herrmann]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], July 17, 2001
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=34672&p=131032 Blikskottel] by Darren, [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], October 02, 2001
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=194238 Blikskottel - New Version] by [[Adam Oellermann]], [[CCC]], October 25, 2001
=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150206222925/http://www.oellermann.com/Blikskottel Blikskottel | the website] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine Wayback Machine], 2015, 2006)
* [http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404/cgi/engine_details.cgi?print=Details&eng=Blikskottel%200.8 Blikskottel 0.8] in [[CCRL|CCRL Blitz]]
==Misc==
* [https://dsae.co.za/entry/blikskottel/e00853 Definition of Blikskottel in A Dictionary of South African English - DSAE]
=References=
<references />
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