SnailChess

an experimental WinBoard compliant chess engine by Rasjid Chan with the fame of a slow searcher, written in C, first released in November 1999. SnailChess started as plain alpha-beta searcher, SnailChess **1.07** used NegaScout with transposition table and null move pruning, an intermediate **SnailSCP** was a partial clone of TSCP.
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The last public SnailChess **4.013** was released in June 2002. Then SnailChess became a testbed for various board representations and move generation techniques, using incremental updated attack tables and various bitboard methods such as rotated and magic bitboards, and applied an iterative search with a stack of structs. || toc =See also=
 * Helix pomatia ||~ ||^ ||
 * Mollusca

=Forum Posts=

1999

 * [|New kid on the block : Snailchess] by K1, Winboard Forum, November 04, 1999
 * [|SOS 031199, Ant 4.16 und SnailChess 1.01] by Andreas Herrmann, CCC, November 22, 1999

2000 ...

 * [|SnailChess-new release] by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, June 03, 2000
 * [|SnailChess ver 1.07] by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, September 28, 2000
 * [|SnailChess Copper, a new re-write] by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, May 12, 2001
 * [|SnailChess Copper ver 2.1] by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, May 18, 2001
 * [|SnailChess Ver 3.01 is now at homepage] by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, November 19, 2001
 * [|SnailChess] by Andreas Herrmann, Winboard Forum, January 08, 2002
 * [|SnailChess Copper Revived- Ver 4.0] by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, June 21, 2002

2005 ...

 * [|Does simple futility prune work] by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, March 27, 2005
 * [|Re: NPS] by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, September 01, 2005
 * [|Help! SnailChess Debug problem] by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, December 28, 2005
 * [|Re: Fastest Magic Move Bitboard Generator ready to use] by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, August 28, 2006
 * [|Re: Help Finding X] by Rasjid Chan, CCC, June 09, 2007 » KPK

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * [|SnailChess] from WBEC Ridderkerk
 * [|SnailChess 4.013] in CCRL 40/4
 * [|SnailChess 4.013] in KCEC

Misc
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 * [|Snail from Wikipedia]
 * [|Snail (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Helix (gastropod) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Snail slime from Wikipedia]
 * [|A snail can slide over a razor blade without being hurt. | Wikistupidia]
 * [|SKNAIL] - The Other Side, produced by [|Bastien Bron], [|YouTube] Video

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