Hamsters

an UCI compliant multi-hamster chess engine by Alessandro Scotti with the goal of a program that has a full-featured and correct implementation of the UCI protocol, and that is able to play standard chess as well as Chess960. It applies a parallel search utilizing up to 8 threads. Binaries are available for Windows and Mac OS X. Hamsters played the CIPS 2007, and was runner-up behind Delfi at the CCC 2008. || toc =Selected Games= CCC 2008, round 3, Hamsters - Chiron code [Event "Chess Computer Cup 2008"] [Site "Turin"] [Date "2008.12.06"] [Round "3"] [White "Hamsters, 0.7.1."] [Black "Chiron, v0.8.7"] [Result "1-0"]
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 * [[image:298px-Hamster_in_hand-cropped.jpg link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hamster_in_hand-cropped.jpg"]] ||~ || **Hamsters**,
 * Hamster Egbert ||~ ||^ ||

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.Nc3 d5 5.Qb3 dxc4 6.Qxc4 O-O 7.e4 a6 8.Qb3 b5 9.e5 Nfd7 10.e6 fxe6 11.Qxe6+ Kh8 12.Qe4 Nb6 13.Qh4 Nc6 14.Bd3 Bf5 15.Ng5 h5 16.Bxf5 Rxf5 17.Be3 Bxd4 18.g4 Bxc3+ 19.bxc3 Qd5 20.O-O Qc4 21.f4 Rf6 22.gxh5 Kg7 23.hxg6 Rh8 24.Qg3 Nd5 25.Rae1 e6 26.Bc1 Nd8 27.Rf2 Qxc3 28.Rg2 Qxg3 29.Rxg3 Rh6 30.Bb2 Rhxg6 31.Nxe6+ Nxe6 32.Bxf6+ Kxf6 33.Rxg6+ Kxg6 34.Rxe6+ Kf7 35.Rc6 b4 36.Rxa6 Ke7 37.f5 Nb6 38.Ra5 Nd7 39.h4 Nf6 40.Ra6 Nh5 41.Kf2 Kd7 42.Kf3 c6 43.Kg4 Nf6+ 44.Kg5 Ne4+ 45.Kg6 Nc5 46.Ra7+ Kd6 47.h5 b3 48.axb3 Nd3 49.h6 Kc5 50.h7 Nf4+ 51.Kg5 Nh3+ 52.Kh4 Nf4 53.h8=Q Nd5 54.Ra4 Kd6 55.Qb8+ Ke7 56.Qe5+ Kf7 57.Ra7+ Nc7 58.Rxc7+ Kf8 59.Qh8# 1-0 code

=See also=
 * Gerbil
 * Kiwi
 * Mammal
 * Rodent
 * Sungorus

=Forum Posts=

2007

 * [|Hamsters 0.3 beta 3: HUMAN testers needed!] by Alessandro Scotti, CCC, April 30, 2007
 * [|Hamsters 0.3 : 2418] by Patrick Buchmann, CCC, May 08, 2007
 * [|Hamsters randomizer in action] by Alessandro Scotti, CCC, June 03, 2007
 * [|An interesting bug in Hamsters] by Alessandro Scotti, CCC, August 02, 2007 » Pawn Hash Table
 * [|Hamsters 0.4 is out] by Alessandro Scotti, CCC, August 05, 2007
 * [|Hamsters CCRL rating] by Uri Blass, CCC, August 30, 2007
 * [|Hamsters 0.5 released] by Alessandro Scotti, CCC, September 18, 2007
 * [|Hamsters 0.5 : 2450] by Patrick Buchmann, CCC, September 19, 2007
 * [|Hamsters 0.6 released] by Alessandro Scotti, CCC, December 07, 2007
 * [|LMR: history or not?] by Alessandro Scotti, CCC, December 13, 2007 » Late Move Reductions

2008

 * [|Hamsters 0.6 - 2665 in CCRL 40/4 blitz] by Kirill Kryukov, CCC, January 26, 2008
 * [|Hamsters 0.7 released] by Alessandro Scotti, CCC, September 12, 2008
 * [|Hamsters 0.7 : 2507] by Patrick Buchmann, CCC, September 14, 2008
 * [|Hamsters 0.7.1 released] by Alessandro Scotti, CCC, November 06, 2008
 * [|Hamsters 0.7.1 : 2510] by Patrick Buchmann, CCC, November 08, 2008

=External Links=

Chess Engine
> [|Hamsters - The story (part 1)]
 * [|Hamsters Homepage] by Alessandro Scotti
 * [|Hamsters 0.6] in KCEC
 * [|Hamsters 0.7.1 2CPU] in CCRL 40/4

Misc

 * [|Hamster from Wikipedia]
 * [|Hamster racing from Wikipedia]
 * [|Hamster wheel from Wikipedia]

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