Schooner

a Chess Engine Communication Protocol (CECP) compliant chess engine by Dennis Sceviour running under Windows. The hobby project already started in the late 70s and was revived using Magic Bitboards in 2015. || toc =Features= .
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 * [[image:SchoonerHoekVanHolland.JPG link="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eendracht_II.JPG"]] ||~ || **Schooner**,
 * [|Schooner] off [|Hoek van Holland] ||~ ||^ ||

Board Representation

 * Bitboards
 * Fancy Magic Bitboards

Search

 * Iterative Deepening
 * Alpha-Beta
 * Principal Variation Search
 * Transposition Table
 * Floating Reductions, LMR and Pruning
 * Internal Iterative Deepening (Hash Refutation)

Evaluation
> Pawn Hash Table
 * Material
 * Mobility
 * Space
 * Pawn Structure
 * King Safety

Misc

 * Pondering
 * Internal Opening Book (2 Moves)

=See also=
 * Ghost
 * Ship

=Forum Posts=
 * [|Schooner Version 1.4] by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, August 19, 2015
 * [|Hash Refutation] by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, August 24, 2015
 * [|Profiling Comparison] by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, September 06, 2015
 * [|Schooner Version 1.5] by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, May 11, 2016
 * [|Schooner Version 1.7] by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, April 25, 2017
 * [|Schooner Version 1.8] by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, January 15, 2018

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * [|Schooner Chess]
 * [|GitHub - schooner64-chess/Schooner-Chess: engines and books] (1.4.1)
 * [|Schooner] at CCRL 40/4

Misc
> Music: [| Crosby, Stills & Nash] - [|Wooden Ships] > media type="youtube" key="wPZV84KlhkU"
 * [|Schooner from Wikipedia]
 * [|Schooner (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
 * [|schooner - Wiktionary]
 * [|Schooner Olad]: first sail of 2013 out of [|Camden] Harbor, [|YouTube] Video

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