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a [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]] compliant [[:Category:Open Source|open source chess engine]] under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GNU General Public License]], written by [[James Swafford]] in [[Cpp|C++]] as a better [[C]]. As successor of [[Galahad]], Prophet is a traditional [[Bitboards|bitmap]] based program. Prophet was used in experiments with [[Temporal Difference Learning#TDLeaf|TD-Leaf]] <ref> [[James Swafford]] ('''2002'''). ''Optimizing Parameter Learning using Temporal Differences''. [http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai02.php AAAI-02], Student Abstracts, [http://www.jamesswafford.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/AAAI02-150.pdf pdf]</ref> when James Swafford was undergraduate at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Carolina_University East Carolina University] <ref>[http://www.jamesswafford.com/prophet/ prophet | James Swafford]</ref>, and testbed for [[Parallel Search|parallel search]] algorithms as topic of its author's Masters project <ref>[[James Swafford]] ('''2008'''). ''A Survey of Parallel Search Algorithms over Alpha-Beta Search Trees using Symmetric Multiprocessor Machines''. Masters Project, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Carolina_University East Carolina University], advisor [http://www.cs.ecu.edu/rws/ Ronnie Smith], [http://www.jamesswafford.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/jfs-masters.pdf pdf]</ref>. In September 2017, Prophet3 was released as open source under the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology#License|MIT License]], using [[Magic Bitboards|magic bitboards]] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=65345 prophet3 released with source code] by [[James Swafford]], [[CCC]], September 30, 2017</ref>. Prophet '''4.0''', released in October 2021, comes with an entirely new codebase <ref>* [https://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=78314 Prophet 4.0 and chess4j 4.0 are released] by [[James Swafford]], [[CCC]], October 02, 2021</ref>.

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