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'''Amoeba''',<br/>
an [[UCI]] compliant [[:Category:Open Source|open source chess engine]] by [[Richard Delorme]], written in the [[D-Proglanguage(Programming Language)|D programming language]], first released in May 2016 <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60228 amoeba a new UCI engine] by [[Richard Delorme]], [[CCC]], May 20, 2016</ref>, licensed under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GPL v3.0]]. Amoeba uses the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelder%E2%80%93Mead_method Nelder–Mead method] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nelder John Nelder], [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Mead Roger Mead] ('''1965'''). ''A Simplex Method for Function Minimization''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Computer_Journal The Computer Journal], Vol. 7, No. 4, doi:[http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/7/4/308 10.1093/comjnl/7.4.308]</ref> or downhill simplex method <ref>[[Mathematician#MHWright|Margaret H. Wright]] ('''2012'''). ''Nelder, Mead, and the Other Simplex Method''. [https://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de/documenta/Welcome-eng.html Documenta Mathematica], [https://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de/documenta/vol-ismp/vol-ismp.html Extra Volume Optimization Stories], [http://www.math.uiuc.edu/documenta/vol-ismp/42_wright-margaret.pdf pdf]</ref> to [[Automated Tuning|tune]] its [[Evaluation|evaluation]] parameters, also called '''amoeba''' method and eponym of the program <ref>[https://github.com/abulmo/amoeba/blob/master/README.md amoeba/README.md at master · abulmo/amoeba · GitHub]</ref>.
=Features=
* [[Automated Tuning]] using [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelder%E2%80%93Mead_method Nelder–Mead method] aka Amoeba method
==<span id="TournamentManager"></span>[[Match Statistics#TournamentManager|Tournament Manager]]==
: With the release of Amoeba '''2.1''', the code of a tournament manager was published also written in [[D-Proglanguage(Programming Language)|D language]], used to validate or reject Amoeba changes <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=62922 sprt tourney manager] by [[Richard Delorme]], [[CCC]], January 24, 2017</ref>. So far only with fixed time per move, it
* can use various [[Opening Book|openings]] from [[Portable Game Notation|pgn file]]
* can play several games in parallel

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