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|| [[image:161px-Fire.JPG link="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fire.JPG"]] ||~ || **Fire**, (Firebird, Fire xTreme)
an [[UCI]] compliant chess engine by [[Norman Schmidt]] <ref>[[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50463&start=5|Re: Fire 3.0 released]] by [[Norman Schmidt]], [[CCC]], December 13, 2013</ref>, until version 3.0 derived from [[IvanHoe]] and the [[Ippolit]] series of programs with some help of [[Milos Stanisavljevic]]. Initially called Firebird, and later renamed to Fire due to a trademark naming conflict <ref>[[http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list|Chess Engine List]] from [[Ron Murawski|Ron Murawski's]] [[http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=home|Computer-Chess Wiki]]</ref>, it was released as open source, Fire licensed under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GNU GPL]]. The sources were later closed with [[Windows]] executables available for download for recent [[Intel]] processors <ref>[[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50463|Fire 3.0 released]] by Stefan Pohl, [[CCC]], December 13, 2013</ref>. Fire features [[Magic Bitboards|magic bitboards]], it can be configured with more than 70 UCI options, and applies a [[Parallel Search|SMP parallel search]].  ||
|| Fire <ref>[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fire.JPG|Photo of a fire]] taken with a 1/4000th of a second [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_%28photography%29|exposure]] by Awesomoman, 2009, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire|Fire from Wikipedia]]</ref> ||~ ||^ ||
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=Fire 4=
Fire **4**, released in December 2014, was a compete re-write and does not use any source code from or related to [[Ippolit]]. It supports [[Syzygy Bases]] <ref>[[http://chesslogik.wix.com/fire#!about/c10fk|Fire chess engine | ABOUT]]</ref> <ref>[[http://chesslogik.wix.com/fire#!history/c1e84|Fire chess engine | HISTORY]]</ref>, and includes a revamped memory management which uses [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMP|OpenMP]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_preprocessor#Compiler-specific_preprocessor_features|#pragmas]] to utilize [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread-local_storage|thread local storage]] <ref>[[https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/use-thread-local-storage-to-reduce-synchronization|Use Thread-local Storage to Reduce Synchronization | Intel® Developer Zone]], November 2, 2011</ref> and minimize the amount of 'shared' resources among [[Thread|threads]] for its [[Parallel Search|SMP implementation]]. [[Engine Testing|Testing]] was done via massive parallel, automated 24/7 ultra-fast chess engine matches using [[Cutechess-cli]] and [[LittleBlitzer]]. Code changes were tested to a very high level of confidence using [[Match Statistics#Likelihood of superiority|LOS]] and [[Match Statistics#SPRT|SPRT]] (min. 40,000 games) against a pool of top engines. Development and testing included approx. 200,000 - 240,000 ultra-fast games per day <ref>Information provided by [[Norman Schmidt]], July 2015</ref>.

=Fire 5, Fire 6.1=
Fire **5**, released in November 2016, improved with new [[Evaluation|evaluation]] terms, and [[SPSA]] tuned evaluation and [[Search|search]] parameters, and supports [[Chess960]]. Fire **6.1**, released in September 2017, added approximately 30-40 Elo in [[Playing Strength|playing strength]] <ref>[[http://www.chessdom.com/fire-the-chess-engine-releases-a-new-version/|Fire – the chess engine releases a new version]], [[Chessdom]], October 02, 2017</ref>.

=See also=
* [[Various Classifications#Bird|Bird]]
* [[Various Classifications#Disaster|Disaster]]
* [[Firefly]]
* [[Firenzina]]
* [[IvanHoe]]
* [[Phoenix]]

=Forum Posts=
==2010 ...==
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31664|Firebird 1.0....]] by [[Dr.Wael Deeb]], [[CCC]], January 12, 2010
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32218|+ Firebird wins Amar Gambit + related chess notes +]] by [[Rainer Neuhäusler]], [[CCC]], January 30, 2010
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32301|+ Firebird wins Ware Gambit +]] by [[Rainer Neuhäusler]], [[CCC]], February 02, 2010
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38348|I should mention that I also made a few small fixes to fire]] by [[Dann Corbit]], [[CCC]], March 09, 2011
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38932|Houdini, Fire, IvanHoe, (and Rybka?) are 'clones'...?]] by [[Norman Schmidt]], [[CCC]], April 30, 2011
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50463|Fire 3.0 released]] by [[Stefan Pohl]], [[CCC]], December 13, 2013
==2015 ...==
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=56855|Fire 4 for linux]] by Lucas Braesch, [[CCC]], July 03, 2015
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60329|Fire 5]] by [[Rainer Neuhäusler]], [[CCC]], May 31, 2016
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=62127|Fire 5 is out!]] by [[Dmitri Gusev]], [[CCC]], November 14, 2016
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=65253|Fire 6 is available!]] by Anton Ross, [[CCC]], September 22, 2017
> [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=65253&start=18|Re: Fire 6 is available!]] by [[Norman Schmidt]], [[CCC]], September 23, 2017

=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [[http://chesslogik.wix.com/fire|Fire Chess Engine]]
* [[http://www.chesslogik.com/fire.htm|Fire - www.chesslogik.com]]
* [[http://www.chessdom.com/fire-the-chess-engine-releases-a-new-version/|Fire – the chess engine releases a new version]], [[Chessdom]], October 02, 2017 » [[TCEC Season 10]]
* [[http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/cgi/compare_engines.cgi?family=Fire&print=Rating+list&print=Results+table&print=LOS+table&print=Ponder+hit+table&print=Eval+difference+table&print=Comopp+gamenum+table&print=Overlap+table&print=Score+with+common+opponents|Fire]] in [[CCRL|CCRL 40/40]]
==Misc==
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire|Fire from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Fire|Portal:Fire from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_%28disambiguation%29|Fire (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_%28classical_element%29|Fire (classical element) from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_ecology|Fire ecology from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefighting|Firefighting from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_protection|Fire protection from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fires|List of fires from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arson|Arson from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflagration|Conflagration from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyromania|Pyromania from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_for_Fire_%28film%29|Quest for Fire (film) from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebird|Firebird from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebird_%28database_server%29|Firebird (database server) from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://thefire.org/|The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education - FIRE]]
* [[Videos#Stones|The Rolling Stones]] - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_with_Fire_(The_Rolling_Stones_song)|Play with Fire]] (1965), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube|YouTube]] Video
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