Wasp, John Stanback's new UCI compliant chess engine and complete rewrite of Zarkov, first released short after June solstice 2016, announced [1] and hosted by Frank Quisinsky [2]. As a bitboard engine, Wasp is compiled for modern 64 bit CPU's with popcnt and bitscan instructions. Wasp 2.00, released in April 2017, is able to use multiple threads performing a Lazy SMP search [3].
Wasp [4]

Features

Search

• Iterative Deepening
• Aspiration Windows
• Principal Variation Search
• Transposition Table
• Extensions
  • Check Extensions
  • Passed Pawn Extensions (to 7th rank if depth is low)
  • Fractional
    • Capture Extensions
    • PV Extensions
• Pruning/Reductions
  • Quiescence Search
  • Null Move Pruning
  • Futility Pruning
  • Reverse Futility Pruning
  • Late Move Pruning
  • Late Move Reductions
• Move Ordering
  • Killer Heuristic
  • History Heuristic
  • Internal Iterative Deepening
  • MVV/LVA
  • Static Exchange Evaluation
• Lazy SMP (Wasp 2.00)

Evaluation

• Wasp does not use Lazy Evaluation (Opposed to Zarkov)
• Tapered Eval
• Material
• Piece-Square Tables
• Evaluation Hash Table
• Pawn Hash Table
• Pawn Structure
  • Passed Pawn
  • Candidate Passed Pawn
  • Weak Pawns
  • Backward Pawn
  • Doubled Pawn
  • Isolated Pawn
• Mobility
• Trapped Pieces
• Outposts
• Rook on open/half-open file
• Rook On Seventh
• King Safety
• King Pawn Tropism in Endgame

Misc

• KPK base
• UCI

See also

• Arthropod
• Buzz
• GNU Chess
• SCP
• Zarkov

Forum Posts

2016

• Wasp 1.01 x64 by John Stanback released ... by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, June 22, 2016
• Wasp 1.02 by John Stanback available ... by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, July 01, 2016
• Wasp until move 42... by Fernando Villegas, CCC, July 05, 2016
• Wasp by John Stanback is clear for take-off on runway 1.25! by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, September 30, 2016

2017

• Wasp 2.00 by John Stanback ... with Lazy SMP! by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, April 21, 2017
• Wasp 2.01 by John Stanback available ... by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, May 04, 2017
• Wasp 2.60 by John Stanback released! by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, November 22, 2017
• Wasp and a question by Fernando Villegas, CCC, November 23, 2017

External Links

Chess Engine

• Frank's Chess Page, Wasp by John Stanback

Misc

• WASP - Wiktionary
• wasp - Wiktionary
• Wasp from Wikipedia
• Wasp (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
• W.A.S.P. - Mantronic, Inside the Electric Circus (1986), YouTube Video
  

References

1. ^ Wasp 1.01 x64 by John Stanback released ... by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, June 22, 2016
2. ^ Frank's Chess Page, Wasp by John Stanback, June 22, 2016
3. ^ Wasp 2.00 by John Stanback ... with Lazy SMP! by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, April 21, 2017
4. ^ Vespula is a small genus of social wasps, widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere. Along with members of their sister genus Dolichovespula, they are collectively known by the common name yellow jackets (or yellow-jackets) in North America. Vespula species have a shorter malar space and a more pronounced tendency to nest underground, but are otherwise nearly indistinguishable from Dolichovespula. As shown a Vespula germanica, Image by Richard Bartz, August 10, 2007, CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons, Wasp from Wikipedia
5. ^ based on Wasp Release Notes by John Stanback

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