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'''Gazebo''', (Gazebo Chess)<br/>
a commercial [[Windows]] chess program by [[Stuart Cracraft]], written in [[Microsoft]] [[Cpp|Visual C++]], released in 1994, bundled with a [[MS-DOS|DOS]] program likely based on an early [[Crafty]] version by [[Robert Hyatt]] <ref>[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=30779&start=2 Re: Comet B.13 is available !] by Pete Galati, [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], January 27, 2000</ref>.
Gazebo uses the [[Null Move Pruning|null move]] and [[History Heuristic|history heuristics]] in implementing an [[Iterative Deepening|iterative]] [[Depth-First|depth-first]] [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta search]] with [[Quiescence Search|quiescence]] and [[Oracle|combined]] [[Horizon Node|horizon]] and [[Frontier Nodes|frontier node]] [[Evaluation|evaluation]] [[Piece-Square Tables|tables]] <ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess/x79Ys8WSc-I/UdoCc_7AYNUJ Re: An Open Letter to Computer Chess Programmers] by [[Stuart Cracraft]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgc]], January 02, 1994</ref>.
Gazebo was later incorporated into [[GNU Chess]] 5, along with [[Chua Kong Sian|Chua Kong Sian's]] program [[Cobalt]] <ref>[https://github.com/heisencoder/gnuchess/blob/master/src/common.h gnuchess/common.h at master · heisencoder/gnuchess · GitHub]</ref>.
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