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Naraku is a [[Bitboards|bitboard]] engine, applying standard [[Search|search]] techniques such as [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta]] with [[Transposition Table|transposition table]] inside an [[Iterative Deepening|iterative deepening]] framework, enhanced by
[[Null Move Pruning|null move pruning]], [[Futility Pruning|futility pruning]], [[Late Move Reductions|late move reductions]] and [[Quiescence Search|quiescence search]] <ref>[http://www.miroku79.info/blog/?page_id=88 Miro's blog » Naraku Chess Engine] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine Wayback Machine], November 27, 2013)</ref>.
Naraku had a strong tournament debut, winning [[TCEC Season 2#Division F|TCEC Season 2, Division F]]. After clone suspicions, and admitting taking ideas from [[Fruit]], [[Crafty]], [[Ippolit]] (bitboard infrastrucreinfrastructure) and [[Stockfish]],
the author stopped working on Naraku <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131104032731/http://www.miroku79.info/blog/?p=218 Miro's blog » Stopped working on Naraku] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine Wayback Machine], November 04, 2013)</ref>.
