Octochess
Octochess,
a Chess Engine Communication Protocol and UCI compliant open source chess engine by Tim Kosse, written in C++ and licensed under the GPL.
Octochess is cross-platform with binaries available to run under Windows and Linux. It was first released in February 2012 [2] .
Contents
Features
- Multi-threaded Search
- Tweakable Evaluation
- Magic Bitboards [4]
- Principal Variation Search
- Aspiration Windows
- Lockless Transposition Hash Table
- Null Move Pruning
- Killer Heuristic
- Internal Iterative Deepening
- Static Exchange Evaluation
- Late Move Reductions
- Futility Pruning
- Razoring
Forum Posts
2012 ...
- Introducing Octochess by Tim Kosse, CCC, February 28, 2012
- Octochess r4529 by Tim Kosse, CCC, March 25, 2012
- Octochess r4632 by Tim Kosse, CCC, May 21, 2012
- Octochess r4690 released by Tim Kosse, CCC, July 17, 2012
- Octochess r4741 released by Tim Kosse, CCC, August 21, 2012
- Octochess r4984 released by Tim Kosse, CCC, February 24, 2013
- Octochess r5132 released by Tim Kosse, CCC, June 19, 2013
- Octochess r5178 released by Tim Kosse, CCC, August 25, 2013
- Octochess r5190 released by Tim Kosse, CCC, August 31, 2013
2015 ...
- OctoChess source code rev 7482 by Norbert Raimund Leisner, CCC, May 11, 2016
- Octochess r7533 sources! by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, May 26, 2016
- OctoChess rev8520 by Tim Kosse by Norbert Raimund Leisner, CCC, August 13, 2017
2020 ...
- Obtaining (or compiling) Octochess 5190 or r5506HK by Chris Lott, CCC, October 28, 2020
External Links
Chess Engine
- Octochess - An open source chess engine
- svn - Revision 10052: /chess SVN source code repository
- Octochess in CCRL 40/15
Misc
- Octopus from Wikipedia
- Common octopus from Wikipedia
- octo - Wiktionary
- Cuttlefish from Wikipedia
- Van der Graaf Generator - Octopus, The Aerosol Grey Machine (1969), YouTube Video
References
- ↑ Octopus vulgaris, Common octopus from Wikipedia, Author: Comingio Merculiano, in Giuseppe Jatta (1896). I Cefalopodi viventi nel Golfo di Napoli (sistematica) : monografia.
- ↑ Introducing Octochess by Tim Kosse, CCC, February 28, 2012
- ↑ Octochess - An open source chess engine
- ↑ Re: Magic bitboards: Cache issues and state of the art? by Tim Kosse, CCC, March 24, 2013