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'''Wasp''',<br/>
[[John Stanback|John Stanback's]] new [[UCI]] compliant chess engine and complete rewrite of [[Zarkov]], first released short after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_solstice June solstice] 2016, announced <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60550 Wasp 1.01 x64 by John Stanback released ...] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], [[CCC]], June 22, 2016</ref> and hosted by [[Frank Quisinsky]] <ref>[http://www.amateurschach.de/main/_wasp.htm Frank's Chess Page, Wasp by John Stanback], June 22, 2016</ref>. As a [[Bitboards|bitboard]] engine, Wasp is compiled for modern [[x86-64|64 bit CPU's]] with [[Population Count|popcnt]] and [[BitScan|bitscan]] instructions. Wasp '''2.00''', released in April 2017, is able to use multiple [[Thread|threads]] performing a [[Lazy SMP]] search <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=63783 Wasp 2.00 by John Stanback ... with Lazy SMP!] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], [[CCC]], April 21, 2017</ref>.
In 2020, John Stanback played with tiny [[Neural Networks|neural networks]] to learn how to [[Neural Networks#Backpropagation|backpropagate]] errors using Wasp's [[Evaluation|evaluation]] as the target, and then rewrote Wasp's evaluation function with fast [[Automated Tuning|tuning]] in mind, quite similar to the tiny NN approach <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=75794&start=4 Re: Wasp NN] by [[John Stanback]], [[CCC]], November 14, 2020</ref>.
=Features=
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=70444 Wasp 3.60 available (for DGT Pi too, for chess computer lovers)] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], [[CCC]], April 07, 2019 » [[DGT Pi]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=71744 Wasp 3.75 by John Stanback released ...] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], [[CCC]], September 06, 2019
==2020==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=74174 Wasp 4.00 by John Stanback available!] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], [[CCC]], June 14, 2020
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=75794 Wasp NN] by [[Ted Summers]], [[CCC]], November 14, 2020
: [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=75794&start=4 Re: Wasp NN] by [[John Stanback]], [[CCC]], November 14, 2020
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=75896 Wasp 4.08 dev] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], [[CCC]], November 22, 2020
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