Technical Info

            Minimun Hardware Recomended:

            O.S. Supported:

• 32bits and 64bits Windows  98/2000/XP/2003/Vista
• 32bits and 64bits Linux

            Protocols:

• UCI Protocol
• Winboard 2 Protocol
  

            Data Structure:

• Bitboard based
• Rotated Bitboard
•  Magic Bitboard   
  

            Search:

• Principal Variation Search
•  Limited Quiescent Search
• Static Exchange Evaluation and MVV/LVA
• Null Move Prunning (R=2/3)
• Single Transposition Table and Pawns Hash Table
• History Heuristic
• Killers , Mate Killers
• Check Extension
• Late Move Reduction
• Pondering
  

            Evaluation:

• Basically pieces evaluation is based on Material, Mobility(attack bitboards),  Piece/Square tables, Piece type own positional knowledge.
• Pawns Evaluation considers Doubled, Backward, Isolated, Passer and Candidate Passer. Passers have a more complex evaluation.
• King Safety is very important  and ponderated in evaluation function.
• Specific Endgame Knowledge.
  

            Opening Book:

• ProDeo´s  Opensource Opening Book code slightly modified. Thanks to Ed Schröder.
  
•  Book  GM2001PD.  Thanks to Olivier Deville and Fonzy. 

                Endgame Bitbases

•  Scorpio  Endgame Bitbases Access. Thanks to  Daniel Shawul.

 

Last update 28/01/2008