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[[FILE:Beserker, Lewis Chessmen, British Museum.jpg|border|right|thumb|200px| Berserker <ref>"Berserker" warder (rook) of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_chessmen Lewis Chessmen] in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Museum British Museum], probably made in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway Norway] in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century 12th century], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons]</ref> ]]
'''Berserk''', <br/>
an [[UCI]] compliant [[:Category:Open Source|open source]] chess engine by [[Jay Honnold]], written in [[C]] and licensed under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GPL v3.0]], first released in February 2021 <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=76209&start=90 Re: New engine releases & news 2021] by [[Gabor Szots]], [[CCC]], February 20, 2021</ref>.
=Credit=
Berserk was influenced by other engines, engine authors and resources <ref name="readme">[https://github.com/jhonnold/berserk/blob/main/README.md berserk/README.md at main · jhonnold/berserk · GitHub]</ref>:
* [[Chess22k]] by [[Sander Maassen vd Brink]]
* [[BBC]] and its [[BBC#YouTube|Video Series]] by [[Maksim Korzh]]
* [[Martin Sedlak]]
* [[Vice]] by [[BlueFeverSoft]]
* [[Stockfish]] by [[Tord Romstad]], [[Marco Costalba]], [[Joona Kiiski]] and [[Gary Linscott]] et al.
* [[Ethereal]] and [[OpenBench]] by [[Andrew Grant]]
* [[Main Page|CPW]] (thank you)
=Features=
<ref name="readme" />
==[[Board Representation]]==
* [[Bitboards]]
* [[Magic Bitboards]]
==[[Search]]==
* [[Lazy SMP]]
* [[Iterative Deepening]]
* [[Aspiration Windows]]
* [[Negamax]]
* [[Principal Variation Search]]
* [[Transposition Table]]
* [[Move Ordering]]
** [[Internal Iterative Deepening]]
** [[Killer Heuristic]]
** [[History Heuristic]]
** [[Countermove Heuristic]]
** [[Butterfly Heuristic]]
** [[MVV-LVA|MVV/LVA]]
** [[Static Exchange Evaluation|SEE]]
* [[Selectivity]]
** [[Mate Distance Pruning]]
** [[Reverse Futility Pruning]]
** [[Null Move Pruning]]
** [[Futility Pruning#MoveCountBasedPruning|Late Move Pruning]]
** [[Static Exchange Evaluation|SEE Pruning]]
** [[Singular Extensions]]
** [[Late Move Reductions]]
** [[Delta Pruning]]
** [[Quiescence Search]]
==[[Evaluation]]==
* [[Tapered Eval]]
* [[Material]]
** [[Bishop Pair]]
* [[Piece-Square Tables]]
* [[Mobility]]
** [[Trapped Pieces]]
** [[Rook on Open File|Rooks on (Semi) Open Files]]
* [[Outposts]]
* [[Pawn Structure]]
** [[Pawn Hash Table]]
** [[Backward Pawn]]
** [[Doubled Pawn]]
** [[Isolated Pawn]]
** [[Connected Pawns]]
** [[Candidate Passed Pawn]]
** [[Passed Pawn]]
* [[King Safety]]
** [[King Safety#Attacking|Attacking King Zone]]
** [[King Safety#PawnShield|Pawn Shelter]]
** [[King Safety#PawnStorm|Pawn Storm]]
** [[King Safety#SquareControl|Square Control]]
* [[Tactics|Tactical Pattern]]
** [[Square Control|Threats]]
** [[Battery]]
** [[Hanging Piece|Hanging Pieces]]
* [[Tempo]]
==Misc==
* [[Texel's Tuning Method]]
* [[KPK]] [[Endgame Bitbases|Bitbase]] by [[Martin Sedlak]]
=See also=
* [[Zerker]]
=Forum Posts=
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=76209&start=90 Re: New engine releases & news 2021] by [[Gabor Szots]], [[CCC]], February 20, 2021
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=76209&start=117 Re: New engine releases & news 2021] (Berserk 2.0.0) by [[Gabor Szots]], [[CCC]], March 05, 2021
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=76209&start=163 Re: New engine releases & news 2021] (Berserk 3.0.0) by [[Gabor Szots]], [[CCC]], March 19, 2021
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=76209&start=291 Re: New engine releases & news 2021] (Berserk 4.0.0) by [[Jay Honnold]], [[CCC]], April 27, 2021
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=76209&start=307 Re: New engine releases & news 2021] (Berserk 4.1.0) by [[Jay Honnold]], [[CCC]], May 02, 2021
=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [https://github.com/jhonnold/berserk GitHub - jhonnold/berserk: UCI Chess Engine written in C]
* [https://ccrl.chessdom.com/ccrl/404/cgi/compare_engines.cgi?family=Berserk&print=Rating+list&print=Results+table&print=LOS+table&print=Ponder+hit+table&print=Eval+difference+table&print=Comopp+gamenum+table&print=Overlap+table&print=Score+with+common+opponents Berserk] in [[CCRL|CCRL Blitz]]
* [https://ccrl.chessdom.com/ccrl/4040/cgi/compare_engines.cgi?family=Berserk&print=Rating+list&print=Results+table&print=LOS+table&print=Ponder+hit+table&print=Eval+difference+table&print=Comopp+gamenum+table&print=Overlap+table&print=Score+with+common+opponents Berserk] in [[CCRL|CCRL 40/15]]
==Misc==
* [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/berserk berserk - Wiktionary]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserk Berserk from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker_(disambiguation) Berserker (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker Berserker from Wikipedia]
* [https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/2647540-The-Dave-Fox-Group The Dave Fox Group] - Berserker, [https://www.discogs.com/de/The-Dave-Fox-Group-Gatewalk/release/4174471 Gatewalk] (2004), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jVjT_Rxk6I|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
=References=
<references />
'''[[Engines|Up one Level]]'''
[[Category:UCI]]
[[Category:Open Source]]
[[Category:GPL]]
[[Category:OpenBench]]
[[Category:PC]]
[[Category:Windows]]
[[Category:Linux]]
[[Category:Mythology]]
[[Category:Music]]
[[FILE:Beserker, Lewis Chessmen, British Museum.jpg|border|right|thumb|200px| Berserker <ref>"Berserker" warder (rook) of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_chessmen Lewis Chessmen] in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Museum British Museum], probably made in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway Norway] in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century 12th century], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons]</ref> ]]
'''Berserk''', <br/>
an [[UCI]] compliant [[:Category:Open Source|open source]] chess engine by [[Jay Honnold]], written in [[C]] and licensed under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GPL v3.0]], first released in February 2021 <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=76209&start=90 Re: New engine releases & news 2021] by [[Gabor Szots]], [[CCC]], February 20, 2021</ref>.
=Credit=
Berserk was influenced by other engines, engine authors and resources <ref name="readme">[https://github.com/jhonnold/berserk/blob/main/README.md berserk/README.md at main · jhonnold/berserk · GitHub]</ref>:
* [[Chess22k]] by [[Sander Maassen vd Brink]]
* [[BBC]] and its [[BBC#YouTube|Video Series]] by [[Maksim Korzh]]
* [[Martin Sedlak]]
* [[Vice]] by [[BlueFeverSoft]]
* [[Stockfish]] by [[Tord Romstad]], [[Marco Costalba]], [[Joona Kiiski]] and [[Gary Linscott]] et al.
* [[Ethereal]] and [[OpenBench]] by [[Andrew Grant]]
* [[Main Page|CPW]] (thank you)
=Features=
<ref name="readme" />
==[[Board Representation]]==
* [[Bitboards]]
* [[Magic Bitboards]]
==[[Search]]==
* [[Lazy SMP]]
* [[Iterative Deepening]]
* [[Aspiration Windows]]
* [[Negamax]]
* [[Principal Variation Search]]
* [[Transposition Table]]
* [[Move Ordering]]
** [[Internal Iterative Deepening]]
** [[Killer Heuristic]]
** [[History Heuristic]]
** [[Countermove Heuristic]]
** [[Butterfly Heuristic]]
** [[MVV-LVA|MVV/LVA]]
** [[Static Exchange Evaluation|SEE]]
* [[Selectivity]]
** [[Mate Distance Pruning]]
** [[Reverse Futility Pruning]]
** [[Null Move Pruning]]
** [[Futility Pruning#MoveCountBasedPruning|Late Move Pruning]]
** [[Static Exchange Evaluation|SEE Pruning]]
** [[Singular Extensions]]
** [[Late Move Reductions]]
** [[Delta Pruning]]
** [[Quiescence Search]]
==[[Evaluation]]==
* [[Tapered Eval]]
* [[Material]]
** [[Bishop Pair]]
* [[Piece-Square Tables]]
* [[Mobility]]
** [[Trapped Pieces]]
** [[Rook on Open File|Rooks on (Semi) Open Files]]
* [[Outposts]]
* [[Pawn Structure]]
** [[Pawn Hash Table]]
** [[Backward Pawn]]
** [[Doubled Pawn]]
** [[Isolated Pawn]]
** [[Connected Pawns]]
** [[Candidate Passed Pawn]]
** [[Passed Pawn]]
* [[King Safety]]
** [[King Safety#Attacking|Attacking King Zone]]
** [[King Safety#PawnShield|Pawn Shelter]]
** [[King Safety#PawnStorm|Pawn Storm]]
** [[King Safety#SquareControl|Square Control]]
* [[Tactics|Tactical Pattern]]
** [[Square Control|Threats]]
** [[Battery]]
** [[Hanging Piece|Hanging Pieces]]
* [[Tempo]]
==Misc==
* [[Texel's Tuning Method]]
* [[KPK]] [[Endgame Bitbases|Bitbase]] by [[Martin Sedlak]]
=See also=
* [[Zerker]]
=Forum Posts=
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=76209&start=90 Re: New engine releases & news 2021] by [[Gabor Szots]], [[CCC]], February 20, 2021
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=76209&start=117 Re: New engine releases & news 2021] (Berserk 2.0.0) by [[Gabor Szots]], [[CCC]], March 05, 2021
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=76209&start=163 Re: New engine releases & news 2021] (Berserk 3.0.0) by [[Gabor Szots]], [[CCC]], March 19, 2021
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=76209&start=291 Re: New engine releases & news 2021] (Berserk 4.0.0) by [[Jay Honnold]], [[CCC]], April 27, 2021
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=76209&start=307 Re: New engine releases & news 2021] (Berserk 4.1.0) by [[Jay Honnold]], [[CCC]], May 02, 2021
=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [https://github.com/jhonnold/berserk GitHub - jhonnold/berserk: UCI Chess Engine written in C]
* [https://ccrl.chessdom.com/ccrl/404/cgi/compare_engines.cgi?family=Berserk&print=Rating+list&print=Results+table&print=LOS+table&print=Ponder+hit+table&print=Eval+difference+table&print=Comopp+gamenum+table&print=Overlap+table&print=Score+with+common+opponents Berserk] in [[CCRL|CCRL Blitz]]
* [https://ccrl.chessdom.com/ccrl/4040/cgi/compare_engines.cgi?family=Berserk&print=Rating+list&print=Results+table&print=LOS+table&print=Ponder+hit+table&print=Eval+difference+table&print=Comopp+gamenum+table&print=Overlap+table&print=Score+with+common+opponents Berserk] in [[CCRL|CCRL 40/15]]
==Misc==
* [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/berserk berserk - Wiktionary]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserk Berserk from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker_(disambiguation) Berserker (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker Berserker from Wikipedia]
* [https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/2647540-The-Dave-Fox-Group The Dave Fox Group] - Berserker, [https://www.discogs.com/de/The-Dave-Fox-Group-Gatewalk/release/4174471 Gatewalk] (2004), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jVjT_Rxk6I|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
=References=
<references />
'''[[Engines|Up one Level]]'''
[[Category:UCI]]
[[Category:Open Source]]
[[Category:GPL]]
[[Category:OpenBench]]
[[Category:PC]]
[[Category:Windows]]
[[Category:Linux]]
[[Category:Mythology]]
[[Category:Music]]
