KnightCap


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 * [[image:thingone.gif link="http://www.samba.org/KnightCap/"]] ||~ || **KnightCap** is an open source chess engine by Andrew Tridgell, Jonathan Baxter and Lex Weaver. It uses temporal difference learning applied to chess , in particular TDLeaf, and utilizes an attack table with 64 piece-sets for each square , and performs a parallel MTD(f) search with null move pruning.

KnightCap has an own GUI with an optional 3D Graphics Board, and played multiple Australasian National Computer Chess Championships, and won two times , last one the NC3 2006. || toc =Selected Games= NC3 2006, round 2, Bodo - KnightCap code [Event "NC3 2006"] [Site "RedHill, Canberra, Australia"] [Date "2006.08.20"] [Round "2"] [White "Bodo"] [Black "KnightCap"] [Result "0-1"]
 * KnightCap's 3D Board ||~ ||^ ||

1.d4 h6 2.e4 a6 3.Nf3 d6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bc4 Nc6 6.O-O Nf6 7.Qe2 b5 8.Bb3 Na5 9.e5 dxe5 10.dxe5 Nd7 11.Rd1 Bb7 12.Bf4 Nxb3 13.axb3 Bc5 14.Ne4 Bb6 15.c3 Qe7 16.Bg3 O-O 17.Bh4 Qe8 18.b4 Bd5 19.Rd2 Qc8 20.Re1 Re8 21.Qd3 Nf8 22.Nd4 Ng6 23.Bg3 Qb7 24.Qe2 Rad8 25.f3 Qa7 26.Kh1 Bb7 27.Red1 Rd5 28.Nc2 Red8 29.Rd3 Rxd3 30.Rxd3 Rd5 31.h4 Ne7 32.h5 Nf5 33.Bf4 Qa8 34.g3 Ne7 35.Kg2 Qd8 36.Rxd5 Nxd5 37.Bc1 Ne7 38.Nc5 Bxc5 39.bxc5 Qd5 40.b4 Nf5 41.Bd2 Qa2 42.Bf4 Qb1 43.Qd2 Bd5 44.Na3 Qb3 45.Nc2 Qa4 46.Kf2 a5 47.g4 Ne7 48.bxa5 Qxa5 49.Nb4 Qa7 50.Be3 Qa8 51.Qd1 c6 52.Kg2 Qb8 53.Qd4 Qa7 54.Qd2 Qc7 55.Qd4 Qa5 56.Bf2 Qa1 57.Qd2 Kf8 58.Bh4 Qa7 59.Bf2 Qd7 60.Qd3 Kg8 61.Be3 Qc8 62.Qd2 Qd8 63.Qd4 Kh8 64.Qf4 Qf8 65.g5 hxg5 66.Qxg5 Nf5 67.Nxd5 cxd5 68.Bg1 Qa8 69.Bf2 Kg8 70.Bg1 Qa2+ 71.Bf2 Kh7 72.Qc1 Nh4+ 73.Kg3 Qc4 74.Qd2 Kg8 75.Qb2 Nf5+ 76.Kg2 Qd3 77.c6 Qc4 78.c7 Qxc7 79.Qxb5 Nh6 80.Be3 Qd8 81.Bxh6 gxh6 82.Qb4 Qg5+ 83.Qg4 Qxg4+ 84.fxg4 f6 85.exf6 Kf7 86.Kh1 Kxf6 87.Kh2 Kg5 88.Kg3 e5 89.Kf3 Kh4 90.Kg2 Kxg4 91.Kf2 Kf4 92.Kg1 Ke3 93.Kf1 e4 94.Ke1 Kd3 95.Kf2 e3+ 96.Kg3 Ke4 97.Kg2 e2 98.Kf2 Kd3 99.c4 Kd2 0-1 code

=See also=
 * TDChess
 * Temporal Difference Learning

=Publications=
 * Andrew Tridgell (**1997**). //KnightCap — a parallel chess program on the AP1000+//. [|zipped ps]
 * Jonathan Baxter, Andrew Tridgell, Lex Weaver (**1998**) //Knightcap: A chess program that learns by combining td(λ) with game-tree search//. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Machine Learning, [|pdf] via [|citeseerX]
 * Jonathan Baxter, Andrew Tridgell, Lex Weaver (**1998**). //TDLeaf(lambda): Combining Temporal Difference Learning with Game-Tree Search//. [|Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems], Vol. 5 No. 1, [|arXiv:cs/9901001]
 * Jonathan Baxter, Andrew Tridgell, Lex Weaver (**1998**) //Experiments in Parameter Learning Using Temporal Differences//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 21, No. 2, [|pdf]
 * Marco Block-Berlitz (**2003**). //Reinforcement Learning in der Schachprogrammierung//, Studienarbeit, Freie Universität Berlin, Dozent: Prof. Dr. Raúl Rojas, [|pdf] (German)

=Forum Posts=
 * [|KnightCap 1.0] by Andrew Tridgell, rgcc, February 27, 1997
 * [|Parallel searching] by Andrew Tridgell, rgcc, March 22, 1997 » Parallel Search
 * [|KnightCap v1.8] by Andrew Tridgell, rgcc, April 03, 1997
 * [|Re: computer chess "oracle" ideas...] by Andrew Tridgell, rgcc, April 03, 1997 » Oracle
 * [|Re: cheaper search ?] by Shaun Press, rgcc, April 26, 1997 » Copy-Make, Vanilla Chess
 * [|Re: Bit Board Bonkers?? - other alternatives] by Andrew Tridgell, rgcc, August 9, 1997 » Piece-Sets
 * [|asymmetry] by Andrew Tridgell, rgcc, August 12, 1997 » Asymmetric evaluation, Parity Pruning
 * [|Re: How to get chess program to solve KBN mate?] by David John Blackman, rgcc, September 18, 1997 » KBNK Endgame
 * [|KnightCap---A free chess program that learns] by Jonathan Baxter, CCC, November 26, 1997
 * [|Parameter Tuning] by Jonathan Baxter, CCC, October 01, 1998 » Automated Tuning
 * [|KnightCap and Windows] by Torsten Schoop, CCC, October 02, 1998
 * [|KnightCap installation question] by Sven Reichard, CCC, March 08, 2000
 * [|Question about the KnightCap find_pins function] by Matthew White, CCC, July 14, 2003 » Pin
 * [|KnightCap source code] by Robert Pope, CCC, February 19, 2016

=External Links=
 * [|Welcome to the KnightCap home page]
 * [|Index of /pub/KnightCap]
 * [|KnightCap from Wikipedia]
 * [|NC3 2004 - List of Entries]
 * [|NC3 2005 - List of Entries]
 * [|NC3 2006 - List of Entries]
 * [|chessexpress: Tridge] by Shaun Press, July 23, 2007

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