Octochess, a Chess Engine Communication Protocol and UCI compliant open source chess engine under the GNU General Public License, written in C++ by Tim Kosse. Octochess is cross-platform with binaries available to run under Windows and Linux. It was first released in February 2012 [1] .
Common octopus [2]

Features

• Partially Multi-threaded Search
• Tweakable Evaluation
• Magic Bitboards ^[4]
• Principal Variation Search
• Aspiration Windows
• Lockless Transposition Hash Table
• Null Move Pruning
• Killer Heuristic
• Internal Iterative Deepening
• Static Exchange Evaluation
• Late Move Reductions
• Futility Pruning
• Razoring

See also

• Mollusca

Forum Posts

• Introducing Octochess by Tim Kosse, CCC, February 28, 2012
• Octochess r4529 by Tim Kosse, CCC, March 25, 2012
• Octochess r4632 by Tim Kosse, CCC, May 21, 2012
• Octochess r4690 released by Tim Kosse, CCC, July 17, 2012
• Octochess r4741 released by Tim Kosse, CCC, August 21, 2012
• Octochess r4984 released by Tim Kosse, CCC, February 24, 2013
• Octochess r5132 released by Tim Kosse, CCC, June 19, 2013
• Octochess r5178 released by Tim Kosse, CCC, August 25, 2013
• Octochess r5190 released by Tim Kosse, CCC, August 31, 2013
• OctoChess source code rev 7482 by Norbert Raimund Leisner, CCC, May 11, 2016
• OctoChess rev8520 by Tim Kosse by Norbert Raimund Leisner, CCC, August 13, 2017

External Links

Chess Engine

• Octochess - An open source chess engine
• [filezilla] Index of /chess SVN source code repository
• Octochess in CCRL 40/40

Misc

• Octopus from Wikipedia
• Common octopus from Wikipedia
• octo - Wiktionary
• Cuttlefish from Wikipedia
• Van der Graaf Generator - Octopus, The Aerosol Grey Machine (1969), YouTube Video
  

References

1. ^ Introducing Octochess by Tim Kosse, CCC, February 28, 2012
2. ^ Octopus vulgaris, Common octopus from Wikipedia, Author: Comingio Merculiano, in Giuseppe Jatta (1896). I Cefalopodi viventi nel Golfo di Napoli (sistematica) : monografia.
3. ^ Octochess - An open source chess engine
4. ^ Re: Magic bitboards: Cache issues and state of the art? by Tim Kosse, CCC, March 24, 2013

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