Schooner, a Chess Engine Communication Protocol (CECP) compliant chess engine by Dennis Sceviour running under Windows. The hobby project already started in the late 70s [1] and was revived using Magic Bitboards in 2015.
Schooner off Hoek van Holland [2]

Features

Board Representation

• Bitboards
• Fancy Magic Bitboards ^[4]

Search

• Iterative Deepening
• Alpha-Beta
• Principal Variation Search
• Transposition Table
• Floating Reductions, LMR and Pruning ^[5]
• Internal Iterative Deepening (Hash Refutation) ^[6]

Evaluation

• Material
• Mobility
• Space ^[7]
• Pawn Structure
  Pawn Hash Table
• King Safety

Misc

• Pondering
• Internal Opening Book (2 Moves)

See also

• Ghost
• Ship

Forum Posts

• Schooner Version 1.4 by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, August 19, 2015
• Hash Refutation by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, August 24, 2015
• Profiling Comparison by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, September 06, 2015
• Schooner Version 1.5 by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, May 11, 2016
• Schooner Version 1.7 by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, April 25, 2017
• Schooner Version 1.8 by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, January 15, 2018

External Links

Chess Engine

• Schooner Chess
• GitHub - schooner64-chess/Schooner-Chess: engines and books (1.4.1)
• Schooner at CCRL 40/4

Misc

• Schooner from Wikipedia
• Schooner (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
• schooner - Wiktionary
• Schooner Olad: first sail of 2013 out of Camden Harbor, YouTube Video
  Music: Crosby, Stills & Nash - Wooden Ships
  

References

1. ^ Features - Schooner Chess
2. ^ The Eendracht in the North Sea on the way to Rotterdam, Photo taken from Hoek van Holland beach, July 05, 2017 15:07 CEST by Gerd Isenberg, bike tour during WCCC 2017
3. ^ Features - Schooner Chess
4. ^ Pradyumna Kannan (2007). Magic Move-Bitboard Generation in Computer Chess. pdf
5. ^ Floating Move Reduction by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, September 14, 2016
6. ^ Hash Refutation by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, August 24, 2015
7. ^ Ee: Calculating space by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, August 09, 2016

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