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[[FILE:Vespula germanica Richard Bartz.jpg|border|right|thumb|240px| Wasp <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespula Vespula] is a small genus of social wasps, widely distributed in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Hemisphere Northern Hemisphere]. Along with members of their sister genus [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolichovespula Dolichovespula], they are collectively known by the common name [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_jacket yellow jackets] (or yellow-jackets) in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America North America]. Vespula species have a shorter malar space and a more pronounced tendency to nest underground, but are otherwise nearly indistinguishable from Dolichovespula. As shown a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespula_germanica Vespula germanica], [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vespula_germanica_Richard_Bartz.jpg Image] by [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Richard_Bartz Richard Bartz], August 10, 2007, [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/deed.en CC BY-SA 2.5], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp Wasp from Wikipedia]</ref> ]]
'''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>.
=Features=
<ref>based on [http://www.amateurschach.de/main/wasp/release_notes_101.txt Wasp Release Notes] by [[John Stanback]]</ref>
==[[Search]]==
* [[Iterative Deepening]]
* [[Aspiration Windows]]
* [[Principal Variation Search]]
* [[Transposition Table]]
* [[Extensions]]
** [[Check Extensions]]
** [[Passed Pawn Extensions]] (to 7th rank if [[Depth|depth]] is low)
** [[Extensions#FractionalExtensions|Fractional]]
*** [[Capture Extensions]]
*** [[PV Extensions]]
* [[Pruning]]/[[Reductions]]
** [[Quiescence Search]]
** [[Null Move Pruning]]
** [[Futility Pruning]]
** [[Reverse Futility Pruning]]
** [[Futility Pruning#MoveCountBasedPruning|Late Move Pruning]]
** [[Late Move Reductions]]
* [[Move Ordering]]
** [[Killer Heuristic]]
** [[History Heuristic]]
** [[Internal Iterative Deepening]]
** [[MVV-LVA|MVV/LVA]]
** [[Static Exchange Evaluation]]
* [[Lazy SMP]] (Wasp 2.00)
==[[Evaluation]]==
* Wasp does not use [[Lazy Evaluation]] (Opposed to [[Zarkov]])
* [[Tapered Eval]]
* [[Material]]
* [[Piece-Square Tables]]
* [[Evaluation Hash Table]]
* [[Pawn Hash Table]]
* [[Pawn Structure]]
** [[Passed Pawn]]
** [[Candidate Passed Pawn]]
** [[Weak Pawns]]
** [[Backward Pawn]]
** [[Doubled Pawn]]
** [[Isolated Pawn]]
* [[Mobility]]
* [[Trapped Pieces]]
* [[Outposts]]
* [[Rook on Open File|Rook on open/half-open file]]
* [[Rook on Seventh]]
* [[King Safety]]
* [[King Pawn Tropism]] in [[Endgame]]
==Misc==
* [[KPK|KPK base]]
* [[UCI]]
=See also=
* [[Various Classifications#Arthropod|Arthropod]]
* [[Buzz]]
* [[GNU Chess]]
* [[SCP]]
* [[Zarkov]]
=Forum Posts=
==2016==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60550 Wasp 1.01 x64 by John Stanback released ...] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], [[CCC]], June 22, 2016
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60667 Wasp 1.02 by John Stanback available ...] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], [[CCC]], July 01, 2016
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60694 Wasp until move 42...] by [[Fernando Villegas]], [[CCC]], July 05, 2016
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61560 Wasp by John Stanback is clear for take-off on runway 1.25!] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], [[CCC]], September 30, 2016
==2017==
* [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
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=63894 Wasp 2.01 by John Stanback available ...] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], [[CCC]], May 04, 2017
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=65791 Wasp 2.60 by John Stanback released!] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], [[CCC]], November 22, 2017
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=65805 Wasp and a question] by [[Fernando Villegas]], [[CCC]], November 23, 2017
=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [http://www.amateurschach.de/main/_wasp.htm Frank's Chess Page, Wasp by John Stanback]
==Misc==
* [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/WASP WASP - Wiktionary]
* [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wasp wasp - Wiktionary]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp Wasp from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp_(disambiguation) Wasp (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.A.S.P. W.A.S.P.] - [http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/wasp/mantronic.html Mantronic], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_the_Electric_Circus Inside the Electric Circus] (1986), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrF2btiNBCg|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
=References=
<references />
'''[[Engines|Up one level]]'''
[[FILE:Vespula germanica Richard Bartz.jpg|border|right|thumb|240px| Wasp <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespula Vespula] is a small genus of social wasps, widely distributed in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Hemisphere Northern Hemisphere]. Along with members of their sister genus [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolichovespula Dolichovespula], they are collectively known by the common name [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_jacket yellow jackets] (or yellow-jackets) in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America North America]. Vespula species have a shorter malar space and a more pronounced tendency to nest underground, but are otherwise nearly indistinguishable from Dolichovespula. As shown a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespula_germanica Vespula germanica], [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vespula_germanica_Richard_Bartz.jpg Image] by [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Richard_Bartz Richard Bartz], August 10, 2007, [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/deed.en CC BY-SA 2.5], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp Wasp from Wikipedia]</ref> ]]
'''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>.
=Features=
<ref>based on [http://www.amateurschach.de/main/wasp/release_notes_101.txt Wasp Release Notes] by [[John Stanback]]</ref>
==[[Search]]==
* [[Iterative Deepening]]
* [[Aspiration Windows]]
* [[Principal Variation Search]]
* [[Transposition Table]]
* [[Extensions]]
** [[Check Extensions]]
** [[Passed Pawn Extensions]] (to 7th rank if [[Depth|depth]] is low)
** [[Extensions#FractionalExtensions|Fractional]]
*** [[Capture Extensions]]
*** [[PV Extensions]]
* [[Pruning]]/[[Reductions]]
** [[Quiescence Search]]
** [[Null Move Pruning]]
** [[Futility Pruning]]
** [[Reverse Futility Pruning]]
** [[Futility Pruning#MoveCountBasedPruning|Late Move Pruning]]
** [[Late Move Reductions]]
* [[Move Ordering]]
** [[Killer Heuristic]]
** [[History Heuristic]]
** [[Internal Iterative Deepening]]
** [[MVV-LVA|MVV/LVA]]
** [[Static Exchange Evaluation]]
* [[Lazy SMP]] (Wasp 2.00)
==[[Evaluation]]==
* Wasp does not use [[Lazy Evaluation]] (Opposed to [[Zarkov]])
* [[Tapered Eval]]
* [[Material]]
* [[Piece-Square Tables]]
* [[Evaluation Hash Table]]
* [[Pawn Hash Table]]
* [[Pawn Structure]]
** [[Passed Pawn]]
** [[Candidate Passed Pawn]]
** [[Weak Pawns]]
** [[Backward Pawn]]
** [[Doubled Pawn]]
** [[Isolated Pawn]]
* [[Mobility]]
* [[Trapped Pieces]]
* [[Outposts]]
* [[Rook on Open File|Rook on open/half-open file]]
* [[Rook on Seventh]]
* [[King Safety]]
* [[King Pawn Tropism]] in [[Endgame]]
==Misc==
* [[KPK|KPK base]]
* [[UCI]]
=See also=
* [[Various Classifications#Arthropod|Arthropod]]
* [[Buzz]]
* [[GNU Chess]]
* [[SCP]]
* [[Zarkov]]
=Forum Posts=
==2016==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60550 Wasp 1.01 x64 by John Stanback released ...] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], [[CCC]], June 22, 2016
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60667 Wasp 1.02 by John Stanback available ...] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], [[CCC]], July 01, 2016
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60694 Wasp until move 42...] by [[Fernando Villegas]], [[CCC]], July 05, 2016
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61560 Wasp by John Stanback is clear for take-off on runway 1.25!] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], [[CCC]], September 30, 2016
==2017==
* [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
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=63894 Wasp 2.01 by John Stanback available ...] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], [[CCC]], May 04, 2017
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=65791 Wasp 2.60 by John Stanback released!] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], [[CCC]], November 22, 2017
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=65805 Wasp and a question] by [[Fernando Villegas]], [[CCC]], November 23, 2017
=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [http://www.amateurschach.de/main/_wasp.htm Frank's Chess Page, Wasp by John Stanback]
==Misc==
* [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/WASP WASP - Wiktionary]
* [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wasp wasp - Wiktionary]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp Wasp from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp_(disambiguation) Wasp (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.A.S.P. W.A.S.P.] - [http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/wasp/mantronic.html Mantronic], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_the_Electric_Circus Inside the Electric Circus] (1986), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrF2btiNBCg|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
=References=
<references />
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