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|| [[image:180px-OttawaMemorial.JPG link="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OttawaMemorial.JPG"]] ||~ || **Alarm**, (Deamon)
a [[WinBoard]] compliant chess engine by [[Benny Antonsson]] and [[Erik Robertsson]], written in [[Cpp|C++]]. Alarm, the Diabolic Chess Engine <ref>[[http://web.archive.org/web/20020623093524/http://www.codenet.se:80/Alarm/|Alarm - WinBoard Engine]] ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive|Internet Archive]])</ref>, was first released in July 2003 <ref>[[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=306680|Winboard engine Alarm is released]] by [[Benny Antonsson]], [[CCC]], July 16, 2003</ref>, and was first mentioned in 2001 formerly called **Deamon** <ref>[[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=200414|Swedish programs]] by [[Benny Antonsson]], [[CCC]], December 04, 2001</ref>. Alarm played four [[CCT Tournaments]] from 2003 to 2006, the [[CCT5]], [[CCT6]], [[CCT7]] and the [[CCT8]]. ||
|| [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alarm_%28Boyle%29|The Alarm]] <ref>[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alarm_%28Boyle%29|Indian Alarm]] - 1884 · bronze sculpture showing an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odawa|Ottawa Indian]] family on the move, halting as if alert to some imminent danger; located in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Park|Lincoln Park]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago|Chicago]] at 3000 N. Four incised granite tablets at the base depict scenes from Ottawa life: "The Peace Pipe - The Corn Dance - Forestry - The Hunt." Sculptor: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Boyle|John J. Boyle]], [[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OttawaMemorial.JPG|Photo]] by [[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Alanscottwalker|Alanscottwalker]], April 29, 2011, [[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en|CC BY-SA 3.0]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons|Wikimedia Commons]]</ref> ||~ ||^ ||
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=Features=
<ref>Features based on [[http://web.archive.org/web/20020618151719fw_/http://www.codenet.se:80/alarm/technical.htm|Alarm - Technical]] and [[http://web.archive.org/web/20020623034338fw_/http://www.codenet.se:80/alarm/revision.txt|Alarm/Deamon - Revision log]] ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive|Internet Archive]])</ref>
==[[Board Representation]]==
* [[8x8 Board]]
* [[Bitboards]]
* [[Rotated Bitboards]]
==[[Search]]==
* [[Iterative Deepening]]
* [[Aspiration Windows]]
* [[NegaScout]]
* [[Alpha-Beta]]
* [[Transposition Table]]
* [[Quiescence Search]]
* [[Null Move Pruning#AdaptiveNullMovePruning|Adaptive Null Move Pruning]]
* [[Check Extensions]]
* [[Move Ordering]]
> [[MVV-LVA|MVV/LVA]]
> [[History Heuristic]]
> [[Killer Heuristic]]
==[[Evaluation]]==
* [[Material]]
> [[Bishop Pair]]
* [[Piece-Square Tables]]
* [[Pawn Structure]]
> [[Pawn Hash Table]]
> [[Weak Pawns]]
>> [[Backward Pawn]]
>> [[Doubled Pawn]]
>> [[Isolated Pawn]]
> [[Passed Pawn]]
> [[Pawn Center]]
* [[King Safety]]
* [[Outposts]]
* [[Fianchetto|Bishop Fianchetto]]
* [[Trapped Pieces]]
* [[Rook On Seventh]]
* [[Connectivity]]
* and more ...
==Misc==
* [[Opening Book]] from [[Portable Game Notation|PGN]]-file

=See also=
* [[Various Classifications#Demonology|Demonology]]
* [[Embracer]]
* [[StAndersen]]

=Forum Posts=
* [[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=199383|Loggo for Deamon]] by [[Benny Antonsson]], [[CCC]], November 28, 2001
* [[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=199856|St.Andersen vs. Deamon 0.87A]] by [[Benny Antonsson]], [[CCC]], November 30, 2001  » [[StAndersen]]
* [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=35199|Another Nordic seems to grow (especially to Odd Gunnar)]] by [[Günther Simon]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], December 01, 2001
* [[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=200414|Swedish programs]] by [[Benny Antonsson]], [[CCC]], December 04, 2001
* [[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=306680|Winboard engine Alarm is released]] by [[Benny Antonsson]], [[CCC]], July 16, 2003
* [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=43375|Winboard engine Alarm is released]] by [[Benny Antonsson]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], July 16, 2003
* [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=43686|Updated engine: Alarm 0.92.4]] by [[Benny Antonsson]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], August 05, 2003
* [[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=346731|Testposition of Matador-Alarm CCT6]] by [[Stefan Knappe]], [[CCC]], February 03, 2004 » [[CCT6]]
* [[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=364794|New version of Alarm]] by [[Benny Antonsson]], [[CCC]], May 12, 2004

=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [[http://web.archive.org/web/20020623093524/http://www.codenet.se:80/Alarm/|Alarm - WinBoard Engine]] ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive|Internet Archive]])
> [[http://web.archive.org/web/20020618151719fw_/http://www.codenet.se:80/alarm/technical.htm|Alarm - Technical]] ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive|Internet Archive]])
> [[http://web.archive.org/web/20020623034338fw_/http://www.codenet.se:80/alarm/revision.txt|Alarm/Deamon - Revision log]] ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive|Internet Archive]])
* [[http://www.computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:download:engine_download_list|Computer-Chess Wiki - Engine Download List]] 
* [[http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404/cgi/engine_details.cgi?print=Details&each_game=1&eng=Alarm%200.93.1|Alarm 0.93.1]] in [[CCRL|CCRL 40/4]]
* [[http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/kcec/cgi/engine_details.cgi?print=Details&each_game=1&eng=Alarm%200.93.1|Alarm 0.93.1]] in [[KCEC]]
==Misc==
* [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alarm|alarm - Wiktionary]]
* [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Alarm|Alarm - Wiktionary]]
* [[https://sv.wiktionary.org/wiki/alarm|alarm - Wiktionary]] (Swedish)
* [[https://sv.wiktionary.org/wiki/Alarm|Alarm - Wiktionary]] (Swedish)
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_%28disambiguation%29|Alarm (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://klammer.mur.at/texte/barcode_quartet.html|Barcode Quartet]] at [[http://www.jazzthing.de/news/2013-5-30-berlin-a-larme-festival-2013/|A L‘Arme!, Berlin 2013]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube|YouTube]] Video
> [[http://www.elisabeth-harnik.at/|Elisabeth Harnik]], [[http://www.alisonblunt.com/Home.html|Alison Blunt]], [[http://www.annettegiesriegl.at/|Annette Giesriegl]], [[http://klammer.mur.at/seiten/josef_klammer.html|Josef Klammer]]
> [[media type="youtube" key="p9L2Kom0QH8"]]

=References= 
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=What links here?= 
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