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GerdIsenberg: Created page with "'''Home * Engines * ZCT''' [[FILE:ZCT.png|border|right|thumb|320px| ZCT logo <ref>[http://zct.sourceforge.net ZCT's home page]</ref> ]] '''ZCT''', (Zach's..."
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<p>Created page with "'''<a href="/Main_Page" title="Main Page">Home</a> * <a href="/Engines" title="Engines">Engines</a> * ZCT''' <a href="/File:ZCT.png" title="File:ZCT.png">border|right|thumb|320px| ZCT logo <ref>[http://zct.sourceforge.net ZCT's home page]</ref> </a> '''ZCT''', (Zach's..."</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''[[Main Page|Home]] * [[Engines]] * ZCT'''<br />
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[[FILE:ZCT.png|border|right|thumb|320px| ZCT logo <ref>[http://zct.sourceforge.net ZCT's home page]</ref> ]] <br />
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'''ZCT''', (Zach's Chess Test)<br/><br />
an [[:Category:Open Source|open source chess engine]] by [[Zach Wegner]], written in [[C]], in development since June 1, 2005 and first released April 29, 2008 under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GNU GPL]]. The latest version is 0.3.2500. ZCT is both [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]] and [[UCI]] compliant. <br />
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=Features=<br />
Main features are the use of [[Bitboards|bitboards]], an efficient [[Process|process]] based [[Parallel Search|parallel search]] using [[Dynamic Tree Splitting|DTS]], <br />
and a crappy [[Evaluation|evaluation]]. <br />
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==[[Board Representation]]==<br />
* [[Bitboards]]<br />
* [[8x8 Board]]<br />
* [[Kogge-Stone Algorithm|Kogge-Stone]] [[Sliding Piece Attacks]]<br />
==[[Search]]==<br />
* [[Dynamic Tree Splitting]]<br />
* [[Iterative Deepening]]<br />
* [[Iterative Search|Iterative]] [[Principal Variation Search]]<br />
* [[Shared Hash Table]]<br />
* [[Fail-Soft]] <br />
* [[Selectivity]]<br />
** [[Check Extensions]]<br />
** [[Mate Threat Extensions]]<br />
** [[One Reply Extensions]]<br />
** [[Passed Pawn Extensions]] (7th Rank)<br />
** [[Late Move Reductions]]<br />
** [[Mate Distance Pruning]]<br />
** [[Null Move Pruning]]<br />
** [[Futility Pruning]]<br />
** [[Quiescence Search]]<br />
* [[Move Ordering]]<br />
** [[Internal Iterative Deepening]]<br />
** [[Static Exchange Evaluation]]<br />
** [[Killer Heuristic]]<br />
** [[Countermove Heuristic]]<br />
** [[History Heuristic]]<br />
==[[Evaluation]]==<br />
* [[Evaluation Hash Table]]<br />
* [[Tapered Eval]]<br />
* [[Material]]<br />
* [[Mobility]]<br />
* [[King Safety]]<br />
* [[Pawn Structure]]<br />
** [[Pawn Hash Table]]<br />
** [[Passed Pawn|Passed Pawns]]<br />
* [[Tempo]]<br />
==Misc==<br />
* [[Automated Tuning]]<br />
* [[Book Learning]]<br />
* [[Perft]]<br />
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=Tournament Play=<br />
ZCT played [[CCT10]] and [[CCT11]] tournaments, the [[ACCA 2008]] and [[ACCA 2009]] Annual ACCA Americas' Computer Chess Championships, and the [[WCRCC 2008]] and [[WCRCC 2009]] Annual ACCA World Computer Rapid Chess Championships. As of the release of ZCT 0.3.2500 on June 1, 2009 <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28212 ZCT 0.3.2500 released] by [[Zach Wegner]], [[CCC]], June 02, 2009</ref>, the ZCT project is inactive.<br />
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=Forum Posts=<br />
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22100 ZCTACCAWCRCC] by [[Zach Wegner]], [[CCC]], July 02, 2008<br />
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28212 ZCT 0.3.2500 released] by [[Zach Wegner]], [[CCC]], June 02, 2009 <br />
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=External Links=<br />
==Chess Engine==<br />
* [http://zct.sourceforge.net ZCT's home page]<br />
* [https://sourceforge.net/projects/zct/ ZCT download | SourceForge.net]<br />
==Misc==<br />
* [[:Category:Frank Zappa|Frank Zappa]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can%27t_Do_That_on_Stage_Anymore,_Vol._1 Zomby Woof] (1982), album [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheap_Thrills_(Frank_Zappa_album) Cheap Thrills] (1998), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video<br />
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoMQfLy1BWI|alignment=left|valignment=top}}<br />
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=References= <br />
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'''[[Engines|Up one level]]'''<br />
[[Category:Open Source]]<br />
[[Category:GPL]]<br />
[[Category:WinBoard]]<br />
[[Category:XBoard]]<br />
[[Category:UCI]]<br />
[[Category:X86]]<br />
[[Category:X64]]<br />
[[Category:Linux]]<br />
[[Category:Windows]]<br />
[[Category:Acronym]]<br />
[[Category:Frank Zappa]]</div>
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