Alarm

a WinBoard compliant chess engine by Benny Antonsson and Erik Robertsson, written in C++. Alarm, the Diabolic Chess Engine, was first released in July 2003 , and was first mentioned in 2001 formerly called **Deamon**. Alarm played four CCT Tournaments from 2003 to 2006, the CCT5, CCT6, CCT7 and the CCT8. || toc =Features=
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 * [|The Alarm] ||~ ||^ ||

Board Representation

 * 8x8 Board
 * Bitboards
 * Rotated Bitboards

Search
> MVV/LVA > History Heuristic > Killer Heuristic
 * Iterative Deepening
 * Aspiration Windows
 * NegaScout
 * Alpha-Beta
 * Transposition Table
 * Quiescence Search
 * Adaptive Null Move Pruning
 * Check Extensions
 * Move Ordering

Evaluation
> Bishop Pair > Pawn Hash Table > Weak Pawns >> Backward Pawn >> Doubled Pawn >> Isolated Pawn > Passed Pawn > Pawn Center
 * Material
 * Piece-Square Tables
 * Pawn Structure
 * King Safety
 * Outposts
 * Bishop Fianchetto
 * Trapped Pieces
 * Rook On Seventh
 * Connectivity
 * and more ...

Misc

 * Opening Book from PGN-file

=See also=
 * Demonology
 * Embracer
 * StAndersen

=Forum Posts=
 * [|Loggo for Deamon] by Benny Antonsson, CCC, November 28, 2001
 * [|St.Andersen vs. Deamon 0.87A] by Benny Antonsson, CCC, November 30, 2001 » StAndersen
 * [|Another Nordic seems to grow (especially to Odd Gunnar)] by Günther Simon, Winboard Forum, December 01, 2001
 * [|Swedish programs] by Benny Antonsson, CCC, December 04, 2001
 * [|Winboard engine Alarm is released] by Benny Antonsson, CCC, July 16, 2003
 * [|Winboard engine Alarm is released] by Benny Antonsson, Winboard Forum, July 16, 2003
 * [|Updated engine: Alarm 0.92.4] by Benny Antonsson, Winboard Forum, August 05, 2003
 * [|Testposition of Matador-Alarm CCT6] by Stefan Knappe, CCC, February 03, 2004 » CCT6
 * [|New version of Alarm] by Benny Antonsson, CCC, May 12, 2004

=External Links=

Chess Engine
> [|Alarm - Technical] ([|Internet Archive]) > [|Alarm/Deamon - Revision log] ([|Internet Archive])
 * [|Alarm - WinBoard Engine] ([|Internet Archive])
 * [|Computer-Chess Wiki - Engine Download List]
 * [|Alarm 0.93.1] in CCRL 40/4
 * [|Alarm 0.93.1] in KCEC

Misc
> [|Elisabeth Harnik], [|Alison Blunt], [|Annette Giesriegl], [|Josef Klammer] > media type="youtube" key="p9L2Kom0QH8"
 * [|alarm - Wiktionary]
 * [|Alarm - Wiktionary]
 * [|alarm - Wiktionary] (Swedish)
 * [|Alarm - Wiktionary] (Swedish)
 * [|Alarm (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Barcode Quartet] at [|A L‘Arme!, Berlin 2013], [|YouTube] Video

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