E.T.Chess

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|| [[image:ET_Communicator_Cropped.jpg link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial"]] ||~ || **E.T.Chess**,
a chess program by [[Eric Triki]] written in [[C]]. The older [[MS-DOS|DOS]] version, developed until 2001, has its own [[GUI|graphical interface]] <ref>[[http://eric.triki.pagesperso-orange.fr/dos_en.html|E.T.Chess - DOS Version]]</ref>, applying [[Negamax]] [[Alpha-Beta]], a quite advanced [[Evaluation|evaluation function]], [[Killer Heuristic|Killer heuristic]], [[Null Move Pruning|Null move heuristic]] and a [[Transposition Table|Transposition table]]. The new version, a complete rewrite,  supports the [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]] <ref>[[http://eric.triki.pagesperso-orange.fr/xboard_en.html|E.T.Chess - Xboard Version]]</ref> <ref>[[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=447664|A new strong chess program by Eric Triki - E. T. Chess.]] by Tim Borik, [[CCC]], September 04, 2005</ref>. 

E.T.Chess played the [[Massy 2002]] and [[Massy 2004]] [[French Programmers Tournament|French Programmers Tournaments]] and the [[CCT10]].
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=Screen Shot=
|| [[image:ETChess.gif link="http://eric.triki.pagesperso-orange.fr/dos_en.html" width="640"]] ||
|| E.T.Chess - [[MS-DOS|DOS]] Screen <ref>[[http://eric.triki.pagesperso-orange.fr/dos_en.html|E.T.Chess - DOS Version]]</ref> ||
=Forum Posts=
* [[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=447664|A new strong chess program by Eric Triki - E. T. Chess.]] by Tim Borik, [[CCC]], September 04, 2005

=External Links=
* [[http://eric.triki.pagesperso-orange.fr/|E.T.Chess Web Site]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial|E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial from Wikipedia]]

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