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[[FILE:58-Amy seal.png|border|right|thumb| The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_%28emblem%29 Seal] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_%28demon%29 Amy] <ref>''The Fifty-eighth Spirit is Amy, or Avnas. He is a Great President, and appeareth at first in the form of a Flaming Fire; bur after a while he putteth on the Shape of a Man. His Office is to make one Wonderful Knowing in Astrology and all the Liberal Sciences. He giveth Good Familiars and can bewray Treasure that is kept by Spirits. He governeth 36 Legions of Spirits, and his Seal is this, etc.'' in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley Aleister Crowley] ('''1904'''). ''[https://archive.org/details/ac_goetia/page/n3 The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King]''. pp. 30, [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:58-Amy_seal.png Amy seal] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons]</ref> ]]
'''Amy''',<br/>
a [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]] aka [[XBoard]] compliant [[:Category:Open Source|open source chess program]] under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GNU General Public License]] by [[Thorsten Greiner]], written in [[C]]. Its development started in 1993 on the [[Amiga]] <ref>[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=31344#p118550 Re: Amy play very strong in my FQ-2 tournament !] by [[Thorsten Greiner]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], April 25, 2000</ref>, and continued on [[Unix]] platforms, in particular [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD FreeBSD] <ref>[http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/pc98/5.3-RELEASE/packages/games/ Index of /pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/pc98/5.3-RELEASE/packages/games/]</ref>. Amy 0,6 was ported to [[Windows]] for [[WinBoard]] by [[Dann Corbit]] in early 2000 <ref>[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=30827 Amy 0,6 für Winboard] by [[Dann Corbit]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], February 05, 2000</ref>. Amy played the [[WMCCC 1995]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paderborn Paderborn] and multiple [[IPCCC|International Paderborn Computer Chess Championships]].
=Features=
==[[Board Representation]]==
* [[Bitboards]]
* [[Incremental Updates|Incremental Updated]] [[Attack and Defend Maps|Attack Tables]] à la [[Chess (Program)#Chess 4.0 - 4.9|Chess 4.x]] (atkTo[64], atkFr[64]) <ref>[[David Slate]], [[Larry Atkin]] ('''1977'''). ''Chess 4.5 - The Northwestern University Chess Program.'' [[Chess Skill in Man and Machine]], reprinted (1988) in [[Computer Chess Compendium]]</ref>7
==[[Search]]==
* [[ABDADA]]
* [[Iterative Deepening]]
* [[Aspiration Windows]]
* [[NegaScout]]
* [[Transposition Table]]
* [[Move Ordering]]
** [[Internal Iterative Deepening]]
** [[Killer Heuristic]]
** [[Countermove Heuristic]]
** [[History Heuristic]]
** [[SEE - The Swap Algorithm|SEE - Swap Algorithm]]
* [[SEX Algorithm]]
** [[Null Move Pruning]]
** [[Futility Pruning]]
** [[Futility Pruning#Extendedfutilitypruning|Extended Futility Pruning]]
** [[Razoring]]
** [[Check Extensions]]
** [[Recapture Extensions]]
** [[One Reply Extensions]]
** [[Passed Pawn Extensions]]
** [[Mate Threat Extensions#Deep-Search Extensions|Zugzwang Extensions]]
* [[Interior Node Recognizer]]
* [[Quiescence Search]]
==[[Evaluation]]==
* [[Millipawns|Millipawn]] Resolution
* [[Evaluation Hash Table]]
* [[Material]]
* [[Bishop Pair]]
* [[Piece-Square Tables]]
* [[Development]]
* [[Mobility]]
** [[Trapped Pieces]]
** [[Rook on Open File|Rook on (Semi) Open Files]]
** [[Rook on Seventh]]
** [[Battery|Rook Battery]]
* [[Outposts|Knight Outpost]]
* [[Pawn Hash Table]]
* [[Pawn Structure]]
** [[Backward Pawn]]
** [[Doubled Pawn]]
** [[Backward Pawns (Bitboards)#Straggler|Straggler]]
** [[Isolated Pawn]]
** [[Duo Trio Quart (Bitboards)|Pawn Duo]]
** [[Pawn Majority]]
** [[Passed Pawn]]
*** [[Connected Passed Pawns]]
*** [[Blockade of Stop]]
*** [[Control of Stop and Telestop]]
*** [[Tarrasch Rule]]
*** [[Outside Passed Pawn]]
*** [[Unstoppable Passer]]
* [[King Safety]]
** [[King Safety#PawnShield|Pawn Shield]]
** [[Fianchetto]]
** [[King Safety#PawnStorm|Pawn Storm]]
** [[King Safety#KingTropism|King Tropism]]
==Misc==
* [[Opening Book]]
* [[Book Learning]]
=See also=
* [[Amyan]]
=Forum Posts=
==2000==
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=94606 Amy-0.6 released] by [[Thorsten Greiner]], [[CCC]], February 04, 2000
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=94791 Something interesting about Amy] by [[Dann Corbit]], [[CCC]], February 05, 2000
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=30827 Amy 0,6 für Winboard] by [[Dann Corbit]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], February 05, 2000
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=95905 New version of Amy should now multithread properly] by [[Dann Corbit]], [[CCC]], February 08, 2000
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=97165 Re: Amy and Isi at Paderborn? =(] by [[Thorsten Greiner]], [[CCC]], February 14, 2000
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=102850 Amy-0.7 released] by [[Thorsten Greiner]], [[CCC]], March 22, 2000
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=103124 New Amy Update (0.7)] by [[Dann Corbit]], [[CCC]], March 23, 2000
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=31344 Amy play very strong in my FQ-2 tournament !] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], April 20, 2000
: [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=31344#p118550 Re: Amy play very strong in my FQ-2 tournament !] by [[Thorsten Greiner]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], April 25, 2000
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=140286 Amy Source Code Is Outstanding Re: Quality source code] by [[Brian Richardson]], [[CCC]], November 21, 2000
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=142991 Usage of egtb.cpp in GPL software (Amy, ExChess, ...)] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], December 05, 2000
: [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=143013 Re: Usage of egtb.cpp in GPL software (Amy, ExChess, ...)] by [[Eugene Nalimov]], [[CCC]], December 05, 2000 » [[Nalimov Tablebases]]
==2002 ...==
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=225207 Amy question...] by Jonas Cohonas, [[CCC]], April 21, 2002
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=38285 Great news from Thorsten Greiner: New Amy v0.8!!] by [[Leo Dijksman]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], July 24, 2002
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=242914 Amy 0.8] by Jonas Cohonas, [[CCC]], July 28, 2002
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=38354 Amy 0.8.1] by [[Thorsten Greiner]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], July 29, 2002
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=43119 Amy 0.8.4] by [[Thorsten Greiner]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], June 23, 2003
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=450670 for Dann Corbit about Amy 0.87] by Wilhelm Hudetz, [[CCC]], September 20, 2005
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18663 Amy 0.8 mp x64 Windows build available] by [[Jim Ablett]], [[CCC]], December 31, 2007
==2010 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32361 Comet B15, Amy 0.6 Green Light Chess 2.07a available ...] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], [[CCC]], February 04, 2010 » [[Comet]], [[Green Light Chess]]
=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=201 Amy's ICGA Tournaments]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20050206093204/www.tgreiner.net/ tgreiner.net - Thorsten's Nifty Geeklog Site] hosted by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive archive.org]
: [http://web.archive.org/web/20050307080145/http://www.tgreiner.net/article.php?story=2004050623271311 Download Amy 0.8.7]
* [http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/Jim%20Ablett/AMY/ Amy] compiled by [[Jim Ablett]], hosted by [[Kirill Kryukov]]
* [http://computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/cgi/engine_details.cgi?print=Details&each_game=1&eng=Amy%200.87b#Amy_0_87b Amy 0.87b] in [[CCRL|CCRL 40/40]]
==Misc==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy Amy (given name) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_%28disambiguation%29 Amy (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
==Demonology==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_%28demon%29 Amy (demon) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudomonarchia_Daemonum Pseudomonarchia Daemonum from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demons_in_the_Ars_Goetia List of demons in the Ars Goetia from Wikipedia]
=References=
<references />
'''[[Engines|Up one level]]'''
[[Category:Open Source]]
[[Category:GPL]]
[[Category:WinBoard]]
[[Category:XBoard]]
[[Category:Demonology]]
[[Category:Given Name]]
[[FILE:58-Amy seal.png|border|right|thumb| The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_%28emblem%29 Seal] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_%28demon%29 Amy] <ref>''The Fifty-eighth Spirit is Amy, or Avnas. He is a Great President, and appeareth at first in the form of a Flaming Fire; bur after a while he putteth on the Shape of a Man. His Office is to make one Wonderful Knowing in Astrology and all the Liberal Sciences. He giveth Good Familiars and can bewray Treasure that is kept by Spirits. He governeth 36 Legions of Spirits, and his Seal is this, etc.'' in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley Aleister Crowley] ('''1904'''). ''[https://archive.org/details/ac_goetia/page/n3 The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King]''. pp. 30, [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:58-Amy_seal.png Amy seal] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons]</ref> ]]
'''Amy''',<br/>
a [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]] aka [[XBoard]] compliant [[:Category:Open Source|open source chess program]] under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GNU General Public License]] by [[Thorsten Greiner]], written in [[C]]. Its development started in 1993 on the [[Amiga]] <ref>[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=31344#p118550 Re: Amy play very strong in my FQ-2 tournament !] by [[Thorsten Greiner]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], April 25, 2000</ref>, and continued on [[Unix]] platforms, in particular [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD FreeBSD] <ref>[http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/pc98/5.3-RELEASE/packages/games/ Index of /pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/pc98/5.3-RELEASE/packages/games/]</ref>. Amy 0,6 was ported to [[Windows]] for [[WinBoard]] by [[Dann Corbit]] in early 2000 <ref>[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=30827 Amy 0,6 für Winboard] by [[Dann Corbit]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], February 05, 2000</ref>. Amy played the [[WMCCC 1995]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paderborn Paderborn] and multiple [[IPCCC|International Paderborn Computer Chess Championships]].
=Features=
==[[Board Representation]]==
* [[Bitboards]]
* [[Incremental Updates|Incremental Updated]] [[Attack and Defend Maps|Attack Tables]] à la [[Chess (Program)#Chess 4.0 - 4.9|Chess 4.x]] (atkTo[64], atkFr[64]) <ref>[[David Slate]], [[Larry Atkin]] ('''1977'''). ''Chess 4.5 - The Northwestern University Chess Program.'' [[Chess Skill in Man and Machine]], reprinted (1988) in [[Computer Chess Compendium]]</ref>7
==[[Search]]==
* [[ABDADA]]
* [[Iterative Deepening]]
* [[Aspiration Windows]]
* [[NegaScout]]
* [[Transposition Table]]
* [[Move Ordering]]
** [[Internal Iterative Deepening]]
** [[Killer Heuristic]]
** [[Countermove Heuristic]]
** [[History Heuristic]]
** [[SEE - The Swap Algorithm|SEE - Swap Algorithm]]
* [[SEX Algorithm]]
** [[Null Move Pruning]]
** [[Futility Pruning]]
** [[Futility Pruning#Extendedfutilitypruning|Extended Futility Pruning]]
** [[Razoring]]
** [[Check Extensions]]
** [[Recapture Extensions]]
** [[One Reply Extensions]]
** [[Passed Pawn Extensions]]
** [[Mate Threat Extensions#Deep-Search Extensions|Zugzwang Extensions]]
* [[Interior Node Recognizer]]
* [[Quiescence Search]]
==[[Evaluation]]==
* [[Millipawns|Millipawn]] Resolution
* [[Evaluation Hash Table]]
* [[Material]]
* [[Bishop Pair]]
* [[Piece-Square Tables]]
* [[Development]]
* [[Mobility]]
** [[Trapped Pieces]]
** [[Rook on Open File|Rook on (Semi) Open Files]]
** [[Rook on Seventh]]
** [[Battery|Rook Battery]]
* [[Outposts|Knight Outpost]]
* [[Pawn Hash Table]]
* [[Pawn Structure]]
** [[Backward Pawn]]
** [[Doubled Pawn]]
** [[Backward Pawns (Bitboards)#Straggler|Straggler]]
** [[Isolated Pawn]]
** [[Duo Trio Quart (Bitboards)|Pawn Duo]]
** [[Pawn Majority]]
** [[Passed Pawn]]
*** [[Connected Passed Pawns]]
*** [[Blockade of Stop]]
*** [[Control of Stop and Telestop]]
*** [[Tarrasch Rule]]
*** [[Outside Passed Pawn]]
*** [[Unstoppable Passer]]
* [[King Safety]]
** [[King Safety#PawnShield|Pawn Shield]]
** [[Fianchetto]]
** [[King Safety#PawnStorm|Pawn Storm]]
** [[King Safety#KingTropism|King Tropism]]
==Misc==
* [[Opening Book]]
* [[Book Learning]]
=See also=
* [[Amyan]]
=Forum Posts=
==2000==
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=94606 Amy-0.6 released] by [[Thorsten Greiner]], [[CCC]], February 04, 2000
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=94791 Something interesting about Amy] by [[Dann Corbit]], [[CCC]], February 05, 2000
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=30827 Amy 0,6 für Winboard] by [[Dann Corbit]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], February 05, 2000
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=95905 New version of Amy should now multithread properly] by [[Dann Corbit]], [[CCC]], February 08, 2000
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=97165 Re: Amy and Isi at Paderborn? =(] by [[Thorsten Greiner]], [[CCC]], February 14, 2000
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=102850 Amy-0.7 released] by [[Thorsten Greiner]], [[CCC]], March 22, 2000
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=103124 New Amy Update (0.7)] by [[Dann Corbit]], [[CCC]], March 23, 2000
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=31344 Amy play very strong in my FQ-2 tournament !] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], April 20, 2000
: [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=31344#p118550 Re: Amy play very strong in my FQ-2 tournament !] by [[Thorsten Greiner]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], April 25, 2000
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=140286 Amy Source Code Is Outstanding Re: Quality source code] by [[Brian Richardson]], [[CCC]], November 21, 2000
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=142991 Usage of egtb.cpp in GPL software (Amy, ExChess, ...)] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], December 05, 2000
: [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=143013 Re: Usage of egtb.cpp in GPL software (Amy, ExChess, ...)] by [[Eugene Nalimov]], [[CCC]], December 05, 2000 » [[Nalimov Tablebases]]
==2002 ...==
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=225207 Amy question...] by Jonas Cohonas, [[CCC]], April 21, 2002
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=38285 Great news from Thorsten Greiner: New Amy v0.8!!] by [[Leo Dijksman]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], July 24, 2002
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=242914 Amy 0.8] by Jonas Cohonas, [[CCC]], July 28, 2002
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=38354 Amy 0.8.1] by [[Thorsten Greiner]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], July 29, 2002
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=43119 Amy 0.8.4] by [[Thorsten Greiner]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], June 23, 2003
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=450670 for Dann Corbit about Amy 0.87] by Wilhelm Hudetz, [[CCC]], September 20, 2005
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18663 Amy 0.8 mp x64 Windows build available] by [[Jim Ablett]], [[CCC]], December 31, 2007
==2010 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32361 Comet B15, Amy 0.6 Green Light Chess 2.07a available ...] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], [[CCC]], February 04, 2010 » [[Comet]], [[Green Light Chess]]
=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=201 Amy's ICGA Tournaments]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20050206093204/www.tgreiner.net/ tgreiner.net - Thorsten's Nifty Geeklog Site] hosted by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive archive.org]
: [http://web.archive.org/web/20050307080145/http://www.tgreiner.net/article.php?story=2004050623271311 Download Amy 0.8.7]
* [http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/Jim%20Ablett/AMY/ Amy] compiled by [[Jim Ablett]], hosted by [[Kirill Kryukov]]
* [http://computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/cgi/engine_details.cgi?print=Details&each_game=1&eng=Amy%200.87b#Amy_0_87b Amy 0.87b] in [[CCRL|CCRL 40/40]]
==Misc==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy Amy (given name) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_%28disambiguation%29 Amy (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
==Demonology==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_%28demon%29 Amy (demon) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudomonarchia_Daemonum Pseudomonarchia Daemonum from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demons_in_the_Ars_Goetia List of demons in the Ars Goetia from Wikipedia]
=References=
<references />
'''[[Engines|Up one level]]'''
[[Category:Open Source]]
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