MSCP
MSCP,
Marcel's Simple Chess Program by Marcel van Kervinck [1], a small, simple, yet complete open source chess engine released under the GNU GPL. It works with both, the Chess Engine Communication Protocol and icsdrone.
Features
Board Representation
Search
- Iterative Deepening
- Aspiration Windows
- Alpha-Beta
- Transposition Table
- Quiescence Search
- History Heuristic
- Move Sorting
Evaluation
Misc
MSCP-PAR
As subject of his Bachelor thesis, Parallelizing a Simple Chess Program, Brian Greskamp implemented a parallel version of MSCP dubbed MSCP-PAR, using principal variation splitting [2].
See also
Derivatives
Publications
- Brian Greskamp (2003). Parallelizing a Simple Chess Program. pdf
Forum Posts
- Other programs like TSCP, SCP, and MSCP? by Pete Galati, CCC, August 11, 1999
External Links
References
- ↑ MSCP - Marcel's Simple Chess Program
- ↑ Brian Greskamp (2003). Parallelizing a Simple Chess Program. pdf
- ↑ Participants 22nd Open Dutch Computer-Chess Championship 19, 20, 26, 27 Oct. 2002, Leiden, Netherlands Marcel van Kervinck is not involved in the current development of Djenghis. Theo, October 29, 2002
