Woodpusher

a chess program developed in 1989 by John Hamlen as part of a university project looking into null-move search techniques. Woodpusher played various World Computer-, World Microcomputer Chess Championships and Computer Olympiads. //Woodpusher 1997// played the WCCC 2004 in [|Ramat-Gan] and the WCCC 2011 in [|Tilburg] as an experiment to play with a seven respectively fourteen years old program. || toc =Description= Description given in 1995 from the ICGA tournament site :
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=Photos=
 * [[image:wccc2011-3.JPG]] ||
 * WCCC 2011, Woodpusher 1997 by John Hamlen vs. Pandix by Gyula Horváth (left) ||

=Namesakes=
 * [|WoodPusher] a chess application written in C# by [|Jamin P. Gray]

=See also=
 * Knowledge | Search versus Evaluation
 * Null Move Pruning
 * Woodpecker

=Publications=
 * John Hamlen (**2004**). //Seven Year Itch//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 255-258. » WCCC 2004
 * John Hamlen (**2012**). //Game Over for the Woodpusher Experiment: 7+7=0//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 35, No. 1 » WCCC 2011

=Forum Posts=
 * [|I think that woodpusher is the surprise of the tournament] by Uri Blass, CCC, July 13, 2004 » WCCC 2004
 * [|Re: Search or Evaluation?] by Mark Uniacke, Hiarcs Forum, October 14, 2007 » Search versus Evaluation, 1st Computer Olympiad

=External Links=
 * [|Woodpusher's ICGA Tournaments]
 * [|Definition of Woodpusher at Dictionary.com]

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