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**[[Home]] * [[Engines]] * Joker NL** || [[image:joker.jpg link="http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/joker.html"]] ||~ || **Joker**, a [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]] compatible experimental chess program written by [[Harm Geert Muller]] for the purpose of trying out novel techniques, such as combining [[Depth-First|depth-first]] with [[Best-First|breadth-first]] search algorithms, [[Futility Pruning#DeepFutilityPruning|deep futility pruning]] <ref>[[http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/deepfut.html|Deep Futility Pruning]] by [[Harm Geert Muller]]</ref>, and [[Incremental Updates|differentially maintained]] [[Attack and Defend Maps|attack tables]] and [[Pawn Structure|Pawn-structure evaluation]] <ref>[[http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/joker.html|The Joker Chess Engine]]</ref>. In 2011, HGM stopped the work on Joker, and started a new engine named [[Spartacus]] instead, based on a 24x10 board <ref>[[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=432065&t=41007|Re: Any joker1114w Updates?]] by [[Harm Geert Muller|H.G.Muller]], [[CCC]], November 06, 2011</ref>. || || Joker <ref>[[http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/joker.html|The Joker Chess Engine]]</ref> ||~ ||^ || [[toc]] =Selected Games= [[DOCCC 2010]], round 8, [[HansDamf]] - [[Joker NL|Joker]] <ref>[[http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=37&Itemid=26&lang=en|Downloads | Open Dutch Computer Chess Championships | Games]]</ref> [[code]] [Event "DOCCC 2010"] [Site "Leiden"] [Date "2010.11.28"] [Round "8"] [White "HansDamf"] [Black "Joker"] [Result "0-1"] 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 b5 4.e3 c6 5.a4 Nf6 6.Nc3 b4 7.Na2 e6 8.Bxc4 Nbd7 9.Bd2 a5 10.O-O Bd6 11.Re1 Ne4 12.Bd3 Nxd2 13.Qxd2 Bb7 14.e4 e5 15.Rad1 O-O 16.b3 exd4 17.e5 Bb8 18.Qc2 g6 19.e6 fxe6 20.Nxd4 Qc7 21.g3 Ba7 22.Bxg6 Ne5 23.Bh5 Bxd4 24.Rxd4 c5 25.Rh4 Rf5 26.Re3 Qc6 27.f3 c4 28.Bg4 Qb6 29.Qf2 Rg5 30.Re2 Qxf2+ 31.Rxf2 Rxg4 32.fxg4 cxb3 33.Nc1 Nf3+ 34.Kf1 Nxh4 35.gxh4 Bd5 36.Rb2 Rf8+ 37.Ke2 Rf3 38.Nd3 Rh3 39.Nf2 Rxh2 40.Ke3 Rxh4 41.Kf4 Kf7 42.Kg3 Rh6 43.Kf4 Rf6+ 44.Ke5 Rf3 45.Nd1 Rd3 46.Nf2 Rc3 47.Rb1 Ke7 48.Nd1 Rg3 49.Nf2 Re3+ 50.Kd4 Re2 51.Nd1 Be4 52.Rxb3 Bc2 53.Rh3 Rd2+ 54.Kc4 Rxd1 55.Rh5 Rg1 56.Kd4 Rxg4+ 0-1 [[code]] =Namesake= * [[Joker]] by [[Marc-François Baudot]] and [[Jean-Christophe Weill]] * [[Joker IT|Joker]] by [[Manlio Morini]] =See also= * [[Various Classifications#Comics|Comics]] * [[Jester]] by [[Stéphane Nguyen]] * [[Jester US|Jester]] by [[Marty Franz]] * [[KingSlayer]] * [[Micro-Max]] * [[Spartacus]] =External Links= ==Chess Engine== * [[http://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=604|Joker's ICGA Tournaments]] * [[http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/joker.html|The Joker Chess Engine]] ==Misc== * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joker|Joker disambiguation page from Wikipedia]] * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joker_%28playing_card%29|Joker (playing card) from Wikipedia]] * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joker_%28comics%29|Joker (comics) from Wikipedia]] * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joker_%28comic_book%29|Joker (comic book) from Wikipedia]] * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Newley|Anthony Newley]] - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joker_(Anthony_Newley_song)|The Joker]] (1965), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube|YouTube]] Video > [[media type="youtube" key="1mq-zLh7wvw"]] =References= <references /> =What links here?= [[include page="Joker NL" component="backlinks" limit="80"]] **[[Engines|Up one Level]]**