Treebeard

a multi-platform, commercial chess program developed by Jeff Rollason, supported by Didzis Cirulis. Treebeard, an AI Factory product, applies a complex Swapping Off Material Analyzer (SOMA) of the whole board, also considering pins and ties to defend against captures, forks and even mate threats, similar as descibed in Rollason's SUPER-SOMA approach for Shogi, which guides a probability-based tree search. Treebeard comes with an optional 3D Board as version of Chess for the PC, and is currently the chess engine used by Microsoft for their MSN Chess. Further, Treebeard is incorporated in AI Factory's Chess Free for Android. || toc =See also=
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 * [[image:Treebeard.jpg link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TREEBEARD.jpg"]] ||~ || **Treebeard**,
 * [|Treebeard] and [|Hobbits] ||~ ||^ ||
 * Chess Free
 * MSN Chess
 * Tolkien characters

=Publications=
 * Jeff Rollason (**2000**). //[|SUPER-SOMA - Solving Tactical Exchanges in Shogi without Tree Searching]//. CG 2000, [|Word preprint]
 * Jeff Rollason, Didzis Cirulis (**2005**). //[|Treebeard - A new way to do Chess]//. AI Factory, Summer 2005
 * Jeff Rollason (**2006**). //[|Looking for Alternatives to Quiescence Search]//. AI Factory, Autumn 2006 » Quiescence Search, SOMA

=Forum Posts=
 * [|Treebeard Chess Engine] by cornetmike, CCC, June 08, 2007
 * [|Treebeard chess engine] by [|Ruxy Sylwyka], CCC, February 28, 2009
 * [|Free Chess program in Android] by Fernando Villegas, CCC, December 03, 2014

=External Links=
 * [|AI Factory Chess Treebeard]
 * [|Treebeard (fictional character) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Treebeard - an Open Source XSLT IDE]

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