Pulsar

a Chess Engine Communication Protocol compatible chess engine by Mike Adams, written in C. The development started in October 1998, and with help from people on ICC's channel 64, most notably Kiwipete and Diepeveen, Pulsar started its life in December and January of 1998/99. In June 2003 Pulsar has been released for the first time. In the meantime, Pulsar is available for x86 and x86-64 under Windows, Linux or Mac OS, as well as for [|Mobiles] and [|Tablets] under iOS. Pulsar plays orthodox chess, as well as various chess variants, where some require [|one time in app purchase] under iOS of the otherwise free engine. || toc =Selected Variants=
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 * [[image:Chandra-crab.jpg link="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chandra-crab.jpg?uselang=en"]] ||~ || **Pulsar**,
 * [|Crab Nebula] with [|Crab pulsar] ||~ ||^ ||
 * Atomic Chess
 * Chess960
 * Crazyhouse
 * Losing Chess
 * Shatranj

=See also=
 * Astronomy
 * Pulse
 * Search Instability

=Forum Posts=

2000 ...

 * [|For Mike Adams: Some querstions about Pulsar] by Arturo Ochoa, CCC, October 21, 2000
 * [|is this nullmove? problems in pulsar algorithm] by Mike Adams, CCC, September 20, 2000 » Null Move Pruning
 * [|release of pulsar] by Mike Adams, Winboard Forum, October 01, 2002
 * [|Command to autoload engines fcp scp for set game match?] by Mike Adams, Winboard Forum, October 05, 2002
 * [|pulsarV2.01d release] by Mike Adams, Winboard Forum, June 26, 2003
 * [|pulsarV2.01f release] by Mike Adams, Winboard Forum, June 30, 2003
 * [|new look for pulsar page] by Mike Adams, Winboard Forum, July 05, 2003

2005 ...

 * [|hashing, check extensions and depth] by Mike Adams, CCC, May 27, 2007 » Check Extensions
 * [|Questions on issues surrounding releasing code] by PulsarMike, Winboard Forum, November 28, 2007
 * [|question about releasing pulsar under gpl] by Mike Adams, CCC, June 12, 2009
 * [|alpha beta hashing and move ordering] by Mike Adams, CCC, June 15, 2009

2010 ...

 * [|Pulsar page has moved] by Mike Adams, CCC, November 13, 2012
 * [|PulsarChess for iOS] by Mike Adams, CCC, April 10, 2014

2015 ...

 * [|Mac binary of pulsar2009-b chess variants program released] by Mike Adams, CCC, March 04, 2017
 * [|Linux binary of pulsar2009-b chess variants program released] by Mike Adams, CCC, March 04, 2017

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * [|Pulsar Chess engine]
 * [|Pulsar - Chess Variants on the App Store]
 * [|Pulsar 2009-9b] in CCRL 40/4

Misc
> [|Pulsar (IBM RS64-III) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Pulsar from Wikipedia]
 * [|Pulsar (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]

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