Pulsar, a Chess Engine Communication Protocol compatible chess engine by Mike Adams, written in C. The development started in October 1998, and with help from people on ICC's channel 64, most notably Kiwipete and Diepeveen, Pulsar started its life in December and January of 1998/99 [1]. In June 2003 Pulsar has been released for the first time. In the meantime, Pulsar is available for x86 and x86-64 under Windows, Linux or Mac OS, as well as for Mobiles and Tablets under iOS. Pulsar plays orthodox chess, as well as various chess variants, where some require one time in app purchase under iOS of the otherwise free engine [2].
Crab Nebula with Crab pulsar [3]

Selected Variants

• Atomic Chess
• Chess960
• Crazyhouse
• Losing Chess
• Shatranj

See also

• Astronomy
• Pulse
• Search Instability

Forum Posts

2000 ...

• For Mike Adams: Some querstions about Pulsar by Arturo Ochoa, CCC, October 21, 2000
• is this nullmove? problems in pulsar algorithm by Mike Adams, CCC, September 20, 2000 » Null Move Pruning
• release of pulsar by Mike Adams, Winboard Forum, October 01, 2002
• Command to autoload engines fcp scp for set game match? by Mike Adams, Winboard Forum, October 05, 2002
• pulsarV2.01d release by Mike Adams, Winboard Forum, June 26, 2003
• pulsarV2.01f release by Mike Adams, Winboard Forum, June 30, 2003
• new look for pulsar page by Mike Adams, Winboard Forum, July 05, 2003

2005 ...

• hashing, check extensions and depth by Mike Adams, CCC, May 27, 2007 » Check Extensions
• Questions on issues surrounding releasing code by PulsarMike, Winboard Forum, November 28, 2007
• question about releasing pulsar under gpl by Mike Adams, CCC, June 12, 2009
• alpha beta hashing and move ordering by Mike Adams, CCC, June 15, 2009

2010 ...

• Pulsar page has moved by Mike Adams, CCC, November 13, 2012
• PulsarChess for iOS by Mike Adams, CCC, April 10, 2014

2015 ...

• Mac binary of pulsar2009-b chess variants program released by Mike Adams, CCC, March 04, 2017
• Linux binary of pulsar2009-b chess variants program released by Mike Adams, CCC, March 04, 2017

External Links

Chess Engine

• Pulsar Chess engine
• Pulsar - Chess Variants on the App Store
• Pulsar 2009-9b in CCRL 40/4

Misc

• Pulsar from Wikipedia
• Pulsar (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
  Pulsar (IBM RS64-III) from Wikipedia

References

1. ^ Pulsar Chess engine - Some History
2. ^ Pulsar - Chess Variants on the App Store
3. ^ A composite image of the Crab Nebula showing the X-ray (blue), and optical (red) images superimposed, Wikimedia Commons, Image from HubbleSite: Image - Combined X-Ray and Optical Images of the Crab Nebula, September 19, 2002, Just when it seemed like the summer movie season had ended, two of NASA's Great Observatories have produced their own action movie. Multiple observations made over several months with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope captured the spectacle of matter and antimatter propelled to near the speed of light by the Crab pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star the size of Manhattan ...

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