Beaches

a Winboard compliant chess engine by Robert Pope, written in C++, first mentioned and hosted by Benny Antonsson in 2002. The later published source code with version history from 2006 til 2010 refers a bitboard engine - despite processing many of them per node, using 8-bit occupied state rotated bitboard lookups for sliding pieces - the control structure of the legal move generator and evaluation reminds more on a mailbox approach without piece list. Search is plain alpha-beta with transposition table, null move pruning and fractional ply decrements with an conventional evaluation, taking material and piece-square tables along with some pawn structure and king safety terms into account, as well the population of ored aggregated attacks per side. || toc =See also=
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 * [[image:Chess_Beach,_Santa_Monica.jpg link="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muscle_Beach_and_Chess_Beach,_Santa_Monica_(5847210301).jpg"]] ||~ || **Beaches**, (BeachesChess)
 * Chess at the Beach ||~ ||^ ||
 * Abbess

=Forum Posts=

2002 ...

 * [|New WinBoard compatible engine - Beaches 0.96 by Robert Pope] by Benny Antonsson, Winboard Forum, July 16, 2002
 * [|New WinBoard compatible engine - Beaches 0.96 by Robert Pope] by Benny Antonsson, CCC, July 16, 2002
 * [|New version of Beaches] by Benny Antonsson, Winboard Forum, September 04, 2002
 * [|BeaChes 1.2] by Benny Antonsson, Winboard Forum, October 03, 2002
 * [|Beaches 1.5 download] by Robert Pope, Winboard Forum, January 22, 2003

2005 ...

 * [|Beaches playing random moves] by Olivier Deville, Winboard Forum, May 05, 2005
 * [|make/unmake] by Robert Pope, Winboard Forum, April 08, 2006 » Unmake Move
 * [|WAC 109] by Robert Pope, Winboard Forum, June 17, 2008 » Win at Chess
 * [|0x88 engines] by Robert Pope, CCC, May 01, 2009

2010 ...

 * [|Missing checkmates] by Robert Pope, Winboard Forum, October 28, 2010
 * [|Beaches 1.20] by Robert Pope, CCC, September 21, 2015

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * [|BeachesChess]
 * [|Beaches] compiled by Jim Ablett, hosted by Kirill Kryukov
 * [|Beaches 2.32] in CCRL 40/4

Misc

 * [|Beach from Wikipedia]
 * [|Beach (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
 * [|beach - Wiktionary]

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