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'''Matant''',<br/>
a [[WinBoard]] compatible chess engine written by [[Antoni Szczepański]] , written in [[C]], and first released in July 2005. Matant played six [[Polish Computer Chess Championship|Polish Computer Chess Championships]], from [[PCCC 2002|2002]] until [[IOPCCC 2007|2007]].
In its [[Logging|logged]] [[Search Statistics|search statistics]], Matant reports [[Null Move Pruning|nullmove pruning]], [[Mate Threat Extensions|mate threats]], [[Check Extensions|check extensions]], [[One Reply Extensions|single reply extensions]], [[Transposition Table|transposition table]] information, number of [[Node|nodes]] of [[Search|main search]] and [[Quiescence Search|quiescence search]], maximum positional [[Score|score]] for both sides, and [[Game Phases|game phases]] in a 0-13 range from [[Opening|opening]] to [[Endgame|endgame]] <ref>[http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/Norbert%27s%20collection/Matant%20%28Compilation%29/v5.04/Matant_5_04/wac.txt Matant_5_04/wac.txt]</ref>.
Based on that information, Matant apparently applies [[Lazy Evaluation|lazy evaluation]] as well as [[Tapered Eval|tapered evaluation]]. Further, Matant uses [[Scorpio Bitbases]].
