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a free Chess Engine Communication Protocol (aka Winboard) compatible chess engine by Chris Tatham. Having initially been started in //JustBasic// it was subsequently translated into, and developed in [|FreeBasic]. Initially released in December 2005, Numpty has always had an open source code base. It is a comparatively weak engine, having a primary focus of being a reasonable but beatable opponent to casual and club players.
 * Numpty chess**,

=Features=
 * 10x12 array based board structure with pseudo legal move generation
 * Alpha-beta search with iterative deepening and limited quiesence
 * Simple evaluation including material, game phase piece-square tables and basic endgame knowledge

=Forum Posts= > [|Re: Alice, Bullucks and Numpty chess engines Reply to topic] by Chris Tatham, CCC, August 13, 2008
 * [|Alice, Bullucks and Numpty chess engines] by Norbert Raimund Leisner, CCC, August 13, 2008
 * [|Perft problems...] by Chris Tatham, CCC, September 10, 2008 » Perft
 * [|Numpty DD - a tribute to Don Dailey] by Norbert Raimund Leisner, CCC, June 04, 2014
 * [|Numpty update] by Chris Tatham, CCC, October 21, 2014

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * [|Numpty chess]
 * [|Numpty Omega] in CCRL 40/4

Misc

 * [|numpty - Wiktionary]
 * [|BBC World Service | Learning English | Keep your English Up to Date - Numpty]

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