Alarm, (Deamon) a WinBoard compliant chess engine by Benny Antonsson and Erik Robertsson, written in C++. Alarm, the Diabolic Chess Engine [1], was first released in July 2003 [2], and was first mentioned in 2001 formerly called Deamon [3]. Alarm played four CCT Tournaments from 2003 to 2006, the CCT5, CCT6, CCT7 and the CCT8.
The Alarm [4]

Features

Board Representation

• 8x8 Board
• Bitboards
• Rotated Bitboards

Search

• Iterative Deepening
• Aspiration Windows
• NegaScout
• Alpha-Beta
• Transposition Table
• Quiescence Search
• Adaptive Null Move Pruning
• Check Extensions
• Move Ordering
  MVV/LVA
  History Heuristic
  Killer Heuristic

Evaluation

• Material
  Bishop Pair
• Piece-Square Tables
• Pawn Structure
  Pawn Hash Table
  Weak Pawns
  • Backward Pawn
  • Doubled Pawn
  • Isolated Pawn
  Passed Pawn
  Pawn Center
• King Safety
• Outposts
• Bishop Fianchetto
• Trapped Pieces
• Rook On Seventh
• Connectivity
• and more ...

Misc

• Opening Book from PGN-file

See also

• Demonology
• Embracer
• StAndersen

Forum Posts

• Loggo for Deamon by Benny Antonsson, CCC, November 28, 2001
• St.Andersen vs. Deamon 0.87A by Benny Antonsson, CCC, November 30, 2001 » StAndersen
• Another Nordic seems to grow (especially to Odd Gunnar) by Günther Simon, Winboard Forum, December 01, 2001
• Swedish programs by Benny Antonsson, CCC, December 04, 2001
• Winboard engine Alarm is released by Benny Antonsson, CCC, July 16, 2003
• Winboard engine Alarm is released by Benny Antonsson, Winboard Forum, July 16, 2003
• Updated engine: Alarm 0.92.4 by Benny Antonsson, Winboard Forum, August 05, 2003
• Testposition of Matador-Alarm CCT6 by Stefan Knappe, CCC, February 03, 2004 » CCT6
• New version of Alarm by Benny Antonsson, CCC, May 12, 2004

External Links

Chess Engine

• Alarm - WinBoard Engine (Internet Archive)
  Alarm - Technical (Internet Archive)
  Alarm/Deamon - Revision log (Internet Archive)
• Computer-Chess Wiki - Engine Download List
• Alarm 0.93.1 in CCRL 40/4
• Alarm 0.93.1 in KCEC

Misc

• alarm - Wiktionary
• Alarm - Wiktionary
• alarm - Wiktionary (Swedish)
• Alarm - Wiktionary (Swedish)
• Alarm (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
• Barcode Quartet at A L‘Arme!, Berlin 2013, YouTube Video
  Elisabeth Harnik, Alison Blunt, Annette Giesriegl, Josef Klammer
  

References

1. ^ Alarm - WinBoard Engine (Internet Archive)
2. ^ Winboard engine Alarm is released by Benny Antonsson, CCC, July 16, 2003
3. ^ Swedish programs by Benny Antonsson, CCC, December 04, 2001
4. ^ Indian Alarm - 1884 · bronze sculpture showing an Ottawa Indian family on the move, halting as if alert to some imminent danger; located in Lincoln Park, Chicago at 3000 N. Four incised granite tablets at the base depict scenes from Ottawa life: "The Peace Pipe - The Corn Dance - Forestry - The Hunt." Sculptor: John J. Boyle, Photo by Alanscottwalker, April 29, 2011, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
5. ^ Features based on Alarm - Technical and Alarm/Deamon - Revision log (Internet Archive)

What links here?