Ferret

a chess engine by Bruce Moreland. Ferret won the Amateur World Microcomputer Chess Champion Title in Paderborn 1995 and was two times winner of the World Microcomputer Speed-Chess Champion, in Jakarta 1996 and Paris 1997.
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Ferret became second at the 14th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Jakarta 1996 without losing a game. At the 9th World Computer Chess Championship, Paderborn 1999, Ferret was unlucky in not winning a dramatical playoff against Shredder. || toc =Photos & Games= code [Event "WCCC 1999"] [Site "Paderborn, Germany"] [Date "1999.06.18"] [Round "6"] [White "Ferret"] [Black "Shredder"] [Result "1/2-1/2"]
 * [|Ferret] [|dentition] ||~  ||^   ||
 * [[image:FerretShredder1999.JPG width="560"]] ||
 * WCCC 1999, Round 6: Ferret - Shredder, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen and Bruce Moreland ||

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Ba5 6.d4 exd4 7.O-O Nge7 8. cxd4 d5 9.exd5 Nxd5 10.Ba3 Be6 11.Bb5 Bb4 12.Bxc6+ bxc6 13.Bxb4 Nxb4 14.Qa4 Qd6 15.Nc3 Nd3 16.d5 Nc5 17.Qxc6+ Qxc6 18.dxc6 Ke7 19.Rfe1 Nd3 20.Re3 Nb4 21.Nd4 Rhd8 22.Rd1 Kf6 23.a3 Nd5 24.Ne4+ Ke7 25.Ree1 Bg4 26.f3 Bc8 27.Nc5+ Kf6 28.Nb5 Be6 29.Na6 Rac8 30.Nbxc7 h5 31.h3 h4 32.a4 Nxc7 33.Rxd8 Rxd8 34.Nxc7 Rc8 35.Nxe6 fxe6 36.Rc1 e5 37.Kf2 Ke6 38.g3 hxg3+ 39.Kxg3 Kd6 40.Rd1+ Ke6 41.Rd7 Rxc6 42.Rxg7 Rc3 43.Rg4 Kf5 44.h4 Rc1 45.h5 Rc6 46.Rg7 Ra6 47.Rg4 Rc6 48.Rg7 Ra6 49.Rg8 Rb6 50.Kh4 Rb4+ 51.Kg3 Rb6 52.Kh4 Rb4+ 53.Rg4 Rb2 54.Kg3 Rb6 55.a5 Rd6 56.Rg7 Ra6 57.Rg8 Rd6 58.Kh4 Rd4+ 59.Kg3 Rd6 60.Rb8 Kg5 61.Re8 Rd5 62.a6 Ra5 63.Re7 e4 64.Rxa7 Ra3 65.Kf2 Rxf3+ 66.Ke2 Kxh5 67.Ra8 Rf7 68.Ke3 Re7 69.Rb8 Kg6 70.Rb6+ Kf5 1/2-1/2 code

=Board Representation= Quote by Bruce Moreland :

=Descriptions=

By Bruce Moreland
Description of Ferret from Bruce Moreland's site :

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1995
Description given in **1995** from the ICCA-site :

1997
Description given in **1997** from the ICCA-site:

=GNU Chess?= The quote of Monty Newborn in //Beyond Deep Blue//, pg. 29 is not correct, neither was GNU Chess a program by Bruce Moreland, nor was Ferret a derivative of GNU Chess :

=See also=
 * Gerbil
 * Mammal
 * Table-driven Move Generation in Ferret
 * Table-driven Move Generation in GNU Chess

=Forum Posts=
 * [|Repetition detection w/hash tables] by Bruce Moreland, rec.games.chess, August 14, 1993 » Repetitions, Transposition Table
 * [|Re: Quiescence search problems (solved)] by Bruce Moreland, rgcc, May 06, 1996 » Quiescence Search, Move Ordering
 * [|Ferret info] by Dann Corbit, rgcc, September 26, 1997
 * [|Re: Ferret/Gerbil question] by Bruce Moreland, CCC, September 21, 2001 » Gerbil
 * [|Ferret 1.00 v258 - program from 1995] by Norbert Raimund Leisner, CCC, October 01, 2013

=External Links=
 * [|Ferret] by Bruce Moreland
 * [|Ferret's ICGA Tournaments]
 * [|The chess games of Ferret (Computer)] from [|chessgames.com]
 * [|Ferret (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Ferret search library from Wikipedia], a Ruby search library
 * [|Ferret Data Visualization and Analysis from Wikipedia]

=References= =What links here?= include page="Ferret" component="backlinks" limit="40"
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