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a WinBoard compliant chess engine by Marek Strejczek, written in C++ and released in 2004, described in detail in Marek's master thesis //Some aspects of chess programming//, Chapter 3. Nesik played four Polish Computer Chess Championships, the PCCC 2004, where it became runner-up in the in the Uniform Hardware Category and third in the Open Category, and further the PCCC 2005, PCCC 2006, and the IOPCCC 2007.
 * Nesik**,

=Features=
 * Alpha-Beta function
 * Aspiration Window Search
 * Iterative Deepening
 * Bitboard and Rotated Bitboards Move Generation
 * Static Exchange Evaluation
 * Quiescence Search
 * Transposition Table
 * Killer Heuristic
 * History Heuristic
 * Null Move Pruning
 * Some (fractional) Extensions
 * Pondering
 * Evaluation function (considerable chess knowledge, but not tuned yet - poor in endings)
 * Opening Book (about 200,000 positions)

=Selected Games= IOPCCC 2007, round 9, Atak - Nesik code [Event "IOPCCC 2007"] [Site "Lodz POL"] [Date "2007.07.01"] [Round "9"] [White "Atak"] [Black "Nesik"] [Result "1/2-1/2"]

1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 d5 4.exd5 Nf6 5.Bb5+ c6 6.dxc6 bxc6 7.Bc4 Bd6 8.Qe2+ Qe7 9.Qxe7+ Kxe7 10.d4 Be6 11.Bxe6 fxe6 12.Bd2 Nbd7 13.Nc3 Rab8 14.O-O-O Nb6 15.Rde1 h6 16.Ne4 Nxe4 17.Rxe4 Nc4 18.Bc3 g5 19.Rhe1 Ne3 20.g3 Nd5 21.Ne5 Bxe5 22.Rxe5 f3 23.Rxe6+ Kd7 24.R6e5 Nxc3 25.bxc3 Rhe8 26.Rxe8 Rxe8 27.Rxe8 Kxe8 28.Kd2 g4 29.c4 c5 30.c3 Kd7 31.Ke1 Kc7 32.a4 h5 33.Kd1 Kb6 34.Kd2 Ka5 35.d5 Kb6 36.Kd1 Kc7 1/2-1/2 code

=Publications=
 * Marek Strejczek (**2004**). //Some aspects of chess programming//. Technical University of Łódź, Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Supervisor Maciej Szmit, [|zipped pdf], [|pdf] - Chapter 3 Implementation of my own chess program, pp. 62

=Forum Posts=
 * [|Another Polish chess engine] by Grzegorz Sidorowicz, Winboard Forum, April 23, 2004
 * [|Nesik - new version] by Marek Strejczek, Winboard Forum, May 08, 2004
 * [|Nesik 0.7.0] by Marek Strejczek, Winboard Forum, September 30, 2004

=External Links= > [|Nesik chess engine - download page]
 * [|Nesik chess engine]
 * [|Nesik] from WBEC Ridderkerk
 * [|Nesik 0.7.0 alpha] in CCRL 40/4
 * [|Nesik 0.7.0 alpha] in KCEC

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