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QuTeChess,
an experimental free open source chess program under the GNU General Public License written by Aleš Zamuda, available from a SourceForge SVN repository ^[1]. As its name suggests, QuTeChess is written in C++ using the Qt4.7 cross-platform application and UI framework ^[2] (using QTime, QThread). QuTeChess supports the UCI protocol, and uses bitboards as internal board representation and a plain alpha-beta search. It contains a MakeMove class, which implements an idiosyncratic Parallel Search, instantiating a new thread in its makeMove function ^[3]. The availability of changegenes.cpp ^[4] suggests QuTeChess' piece values were tuned by the genetic programming approach of differential evolution ^[5].

Publications

• Borko Bošković, Sašo Greiner, Janez Brest, Aleš Zamuda, Viljem Žumer (2008). An Adaptive Differential Evolution Algorithm with Opposition-Based Mechanisms, Applied to the Tuning of a Chess Program. Advances in Differential Evolution, Studies in Computational Intelligence, ISBN: 978-3-540-68827-3
• Borko Bošković, Janez Brest, Aleš Zamuda, Sašo Greiner, Viljem Žumer (2011). History mechanism supported differential evolution for chess evaluation function tuning. Soft Computing, Vol. 15, No. 4

Forum Posts

• A new UCI engine called QuTeChess by Christopher Conkie, CCC, September 09, 2007

External Links

• QuTeChess | Free Science & Engineering software downloads at SourceForge.net
• SourceForge.net: QuTeChess

References

1. ^ QuTeChess | Free Science & Engineering software downloads at SourceForge.net
2. ^ Qt - Cross-platform application and UI framework
3. ^ SourceForge.net Repository - [qutechess] Contents of /trunk/src/makemove.cpp
4. ^ SourceForge.net Repository - [qutechess] Index of /trunk/src
5. ^ Borko Bošković, Sašo Greiner, Janez Brest, Aleš Zamuda, Viljem Žumer (2008). An Adaptive Differential Evolution Algorithm with Opposition-Based Mechanisms, Applied to the Tuning of a Chess Program. Advances in Differential Evolution, Studies in Computational Intelligence, ISBN: 978-3-540-68827-3

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