Mediocre is the result of a chess programming blog written by Jonatan Pettersson. In the blog every aspect added to the engine is described in detail as it develops. Mediocre is written in Java and as of version 1.0 uses only the UCI protocol (earlier version used both UCI and xboard).

Features

• Written entirely in Java
• Supports the UCI and xboard protocols
• 0x88 board representation
• Late move reductions
• Static exchange evaluation
• Static evaluation with pawn structure, attack tables etc.
• History heuristic
• Killer moves
• Aspiration windows
• PVS
• Transposition tables
• Internal iterative deepening

Forum Posts

• Mediocre v0.4 released by Jonatan Pettersson, CCC, November 26, 2011
• Mediocre v0.5 released by Jonatan Pettersson, CCC, July 30, 2012

External Links

• Mediocre Chess blog
• Mediocre on Souceforge
• Mediocre website
• mediocre - Wiktionary

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