Wasp

John Stanback's new UCI compliant chess engine and complete rewrite of Zarkov, first released short after [|June solstice] 2016, announced and hosted by Frank Quisinsky. As a bitboard engine, Wasp is compiled for modern 64 bit CPU's with popcnt and bitscan instructions. Wasp **2.00**, released in April 2017, is able to use multiple threads performing a Lazy SMP search. || toc =Features=
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 * [[image:180px-Vespula_germanica_Richard_Bartz.jpg link="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vespula_germanica_Richard_Bartz.jpg"]] ||~ || **Wasp**,
 * Wasp ||~ ||^ ||

Search

 * Iterative Deepening
 * Aspiration Windows
 * Principal Variation Search
 * Transposition Table
 * Extensions
 * Check Extensions
 * Passed Pawn Extensions (to 7th rank if depth is low)
 * Fractional
 * Capture Extensions
 * PV Extensions
 * Pruning/Reductions
 * Quiescence Search
 * Null Move Pruning
 * Futility Pruning
 * Reverse Futility Pruning
 * Late Move Pruning
 * Late Move Reductions
 * Move Ordering
 * Killer Heuristic
 * History Heuristic
 * Internal Iterative Deepening
 * 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/half-open file
 * Rook On Seventh
 * King Safety
 * King Pawn Tropism in Endgame

Misc

 * KPK base
 * UCI

=See also=
 * Arthropod
 * Buzz
 * GNU Chess
 * SCP
 * Zarkov

=Forum Posts=

2016

 * [|Wasp 1.01 x64 by John Stanback released ...] by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, June 22, 2016
 * [|Wasp 1.02 by John Stanback available ...] by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, July 01, 2016
 * [|Wasp until move 42...] by Fernando Villegas, CCC, July 05, 2016
 * [|Wasp by John Stanback is clear for take-off on runway 1.25!] by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, September 30, 2016

2017

 * [|Wasp 2.00 by John Stanback ... with Lazy SMP!] by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, April 21, 2017
 * [|Wasp 2.01 by John Stanback available ...] by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, May 04, 2017
 * [|Wasp 2.60 by John Stanback released!] by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, November 22, 2017
 * [|Wasp and a question] by Fernando Villegas, CCC, November 23, 2017

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * [|Frank's Chess Page, Wasp by John Stanback]

Misc
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 * [|WASP - Wiktionary]
 * [|wasp - Wiktionary]
 * [|Wasp from Wikipedia]
 * [|Wasp (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
 * [|W.A.S.P.] - [|Mantronic], [|Inside the Electric Circus] (1986), [|YouTube] Video

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