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**Atomystica**,
a chess program which plays only the variant [[Atomic Chess]] <ref>[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_chess|Atomic chess from Wikipedia]]</ref>, using the rules from [[Free Internet Chess Server|FICS]] <ref>[[http://virtual.parkland.edu/lblackburn/Atomic/rules.pdf|The Rules of Atomic Chess (as played at FICS)]] (pdf)</ref>. The development of the program started in April 2014. The program, written in [[Delphi]], has its own [[GUI]], but can also be operated via the  [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]] with [[WinBoard]]. But the Program do not support all functions of the protocol. 

=Description=
The program uses [[Piece-Lists|piece-lists]] and a [[10x12 Board|10x12 board]] for the internal [[Board Representation|board representation]]. It applies [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta]] inside an [[Iterative Deepening|iterative deepening]] framework, further using the [[Killer Heuristic|killer moves]], [[Relative History Heuristic|relative history heuristic]],  [[Null Move Pruning|null-move heuristic]], [[Transposition Table|transposition tables]] and some other ideas for [[Move Ordering|move ordering]]. Under his name, the program plays on FICS with a rating from 2300 to 2400 points. On the server Atomystica uses an [[Opening Book|opening book]] with about 170,000 positions and some as many moves, separated in a white and a black book. The opening books were automatically generated out of the topgames played on FICS. 

=Native GUI=
[[image:Oberflaeche_original.jpg width="1051" height="402"]]
Board-, Engineinfo- and FICS-Window

=External Links=
* [[http://joelh.de/atomystica/|The Author's blog on Atomic and Atomystica self. English/German]]
* [[http://ficsgames.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi?player=Atomystica&action=Finger|current finger Notes and Rating on FICS]]

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