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**[[Home]] * [[Engines]] * AliBaba** || [[image:Ali-Baba.jpg link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ali-Baba.jpg"]] ||~ || **AliBaba**, an experimental chess engine by [[Dennis Breuker]] written for testing various [[Transposition Table|hashing algorithms]] and [[Transposition Table#ReplacementStrategies|replacement schemes]] as subject of his Ph.D. thesis //Memory versus Search in Games// <ref>[[Dennis Breuker]] (**1998**). //Memory versus Search in Games//. Ph.D. thesis, [[Maastricht University]], pdf via [[http://www.dennisbreuker.nl/thesis/index.html|Dennis Breuker's page]]</ref>. With the permission of the author, a modified [[Open Source Engines|open source]] version was made available by [[Dann Corbit]] <ref>[[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=103729|Alibaba test bed (by Dennis Breuker)]] by [[Dann Corbit]], [[CCC]], March 28, 2000</ref>, later adopted to [[WinBoard]] by [[Jim Ablett]] <ref>[[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25734|Alibaba (Dennis Breuker - 1995) with winboard support]] by [[Jim Ablett]], [[CCC]], December 31, 2008</ref>. AliBaba uses a [[Vector Attacks#16x12|16x12 board]] and applies [[Principal Variation Search|PVS]] [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta]] with [[Late Move Reductions|late move reductions]] within the obligatory [[Iterative Deepening|iterative deepening]] framework with [[Aspiration Windows|aspiration windows]]. || || Ali Baba <ref>Ali Baba by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxfield_Parrish|Maxfield Parrish]], 1909, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights|One Thousand and One Nights]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Baba|Ali Baba from Wikipedia]]</ref> ||~ ||^ || [[toc]] =See also= * [[Disney's Aladdin Chess Adventures]] * [[Duck]] * [[Various Classifications#Fiction|Fiction]] =Forum Posts= * [[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=103729|Alibaba test bed (by Dennis Breuker)]] by [[Dann Corbit]], [[CCC]], March 28, 2000 * [[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=104005|Nunn test positions in Alibaba format]] by Pete Galati, [[CCC]], March 30, 2000 * [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25734|Alibaba (Dennis Breuker - 1995) with winboard support]] by [[Jim Ablett]], [[CCC]], December 31, 2008 =External Links= ==Chess Engine== * [[http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/Jim%20Ablett/ALIBABA/|Alibaba]] compiled by [[Jim Ablett]], hosted by [[Kirill Kryukov]] ==Misc== * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Baba|Ali Baba from Wikipedia]] * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Baba_%28disambiguation%29|Ali Baba (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]] * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibaba_Group|Alibaba Group from Wikipedia]] * [[Videos#Kraan|Kraan]] - Kraan Arabia, 1972, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube|YouTube]] Video > [[media type="custom" key="23952012"]] =References= <references /> =What links here?= [[include page="AliBaba" component="backlinks" limit="40"]] **[[Engines|Up one Level]]**