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an UCI and Chess Engine Communication Protocol compliant open source chess engine by Manik Charan, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0, written in C/C++, first released in October 2016. Origin of ideas and implementations are documented inside the source code, e.g. tapered eval SIMD score, or SEE from Stockfish. Since version 1.5, released in June 2017, WyldChess supports Syzygy Bases.
 * WyldChess**,

=Features=

Board Representation

 * Bitboards
 * Dense Piece-Color Board-Definition
 * 8x8 Board
 * Little-Endian Rank-File Mapping
 * Fancy Magic Bitboards by Pradu Kannan

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> Zobrist Hashing > Futility Pruning > Mate Distance Pruning > Null Move Pruning > Late Move Reductions > Check Extensions > Internal Iterative Deepening > Killer Heuristic > History Heuristic (1.5) > Countermove Heuristic
 * Iterative Deepening
 * Aspiration Windows
 * Principal Variation Search
 * Transposition Table
 * Selectivity
 * Quiescence Search
 * Move Ordering

Evaluation
> Bishop Pair > Piece-Square Tables > Attacking King Zone > King Queen Tropism > Passed Pawn > Isolated Pawn > Doubled Pawn
 * Tapered Eval
 * Material
 * King Safety
 * Pawn Structure
 * Rooks on (Semi) Open Files
 * Rook on Seventh
 * Bishop and Knight Outposts

Misc

 * Syzygy Bases (1.5)

=See also=
 * Teki

=Forum Posts=
 * [|WyldChess new release now UCI] by Günther Simon, CCC, October 13, 2016
 * [|Strange beaviour of WyldChess under WinBoard] by Gabor Szots, CCC, November 27, 2016
 * [|WyldChess 1.3 released] by Manik Charan, CCC, January 14, 2017
 * [|WyldChess 1.4 released] by Manik Charan, CCC, March 12, 2017
 * [|WyldChess 1.5 released] by Manik Charan, CCC, June 04, 2017

=External Links= > [|GitHub - Mk-Chan/BBPerft: A fast, bitboard based chess perft result generator derived from WyldChess] » Perft
 * [|GitHub - Mk-Chan/WyldChess: A UCI/Xboard compatible chess engine in C/C++]
 * [|WyldChess] at CCRL 40/4

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