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		Smash, an UCI compliant open source chess engine written by Maurizio Sambati in C++, distributed under the terms of the General Public License. Smash played the CIPS 2004, CCC 2005, CIPS 2005, CIPS 2007 Italian Computer Chess Championships. Smash is a bitboard engine and uses rotated bitboards with 256 line occupancy states to generate sliding piece attacks. While earlier WinBoard versions used MTD(f), since 1.0 the Iterative deepening framework calls a principal variation search. Structured exception handling is used to catch terminate- and timer exceptions thrown elsewhere. Selectivity is applied with adaptive null move, futility- and delta pruning, check- and one reply extensions. A capture entering the pawn endgame is extended by two plies. Beside moves from the transposition table, and MVV-LVA for captures, move ordering is controlled by killer- and history heuristic. Evaluation determines positional aspects with piece-square tables, and considers pawn structure, king safety and various positional piece terms.
Smash in Badminton [1]

Deep Smash

Version 1.0 has been rewritten from scratch. Dubbed Deep Smash - it performs a parallel search using threads, applying ABDADA with a shared transposition table ^[2].

Photos

CCC 2005: Fabio Cavicchio (Delfi) and Maurizio Sambati - Smash [3]

Forum Posts

• Has anyone ever heard of an engine called Smash? by bigo, CCC, December 27, 2007
• Re: interested in making single proccesor program multi by Alessandro Scotti, CCC, December 29, 2007
• Smash (single-CPU/SMP) by Maurizio Sambati by Norbert Raimund Leisner, CCC, August 31, 2008
• Last Smash version? (for the RWBC chronology) by Günther Simon, CCC, May 10, 2016

External Links

Chess Engine

• Maurizio Sambati - Programmi - Smash
• Smash « G 6
• Smash 1.0.3 in KCEC
• Index of /chess/engines/Norbert's collection/Smash (Compilation) by Norbert Raimund Leisner, hosted by Kirill Kryukov

Misc

• smash - Wiktionary
• smashing - Wiktionary
• smash - Wiktionary.simple

References

1. ^ In June 2005, Chinese Badminton player, Fu Haifeng set a world record when he hit a smash at over 208 miles per hour, from East Leake Badminton
2. ^ Re: interested in making single proccesor program multi by Alessandro Scotti, CCC, December 29, 2007
3. ^ Computer Chess Cup 2005 by Alessandro Scotti

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