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|| [[image:Glyph-Kholin.svg width="200" link="https://coppermind.net/wiki/File:Glyph-Kholin.svg"]] ||~ || **Kholin**,
an [[UCI]] compliant [[Open Source Engines|open source chess engine]] by [[Emil Fredrik Østensen]], written in [[C]] as part of his 2016 Master's thesis <ref>[[Emil Fredrik Østensen]] (**2016**). //A Complete Chess Engine Parallelized Using Lazy SMP//. M.Sc. thesis, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oslo|University of Oslo]], [[https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/53769/master.pdf?sequence=1|pdf]]</ref>. Kholin is licensed under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GPL 3]] <ref>[[https://github.com/emilfo/master|GitHub - emilfo/master - Kholin Chess Engine]]</ref>, and focuses on [[Parallel Search|parallel search]], in particular [[Lazy SMP]]. ||
|| [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyph|Glyph]] for House Kholin <ref>The Alethi [[https://coppermind.net/wiki/Glyphs|glyph]] for [[https://coppermind.net/wiki/House_Kholin|House Kholin]] by [[https://coppermind.net/wiki/Isaac_Stewart|Isaac Stewart]], [[https://coppermind.net/wiki/The_Stormlight_Archive|The Stormlight Archive - The Coppermind - 17th Shard]]</ref> ||~ ||^ ||
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=Features=
==[[Board Representation]]== 
* [[Bitboards]]
* [[8x8 Board]]
* [[Magic Bitboards]]
==[[Search]]== 
* [[Lazy SMP]]
* [[Iterative Deepening]]
* [[Aspiration Windows]]
* [[Alpha-Beta]]
* [[Shared Hash Table]]
> [[Shared Hash Table#Lockless|Lockless Hashing]]
> [[Zobrist Hashing]]
* [[Move Ordering]]
> [[History Heuristic]]
> [[Killer Heuristic]]
* [[Selectivity]]
> [[Null Move Pruning]]
> [[Check Extensions]]
==[[Evaluation]]== 
* [[Tapered Eval]]
* [[Material]]
* [[Piece-Square Tables]]
* [[Rook on Open File|Rooks on (Semi) Open Files]]
* [[Pawn Structure]]
==Misc==
* [[Perft]]

=See also=
* [[Various Classifications#Fiction|Fiction]]

=Publications=
* [[Emil Fredrik Østensen]] (**2016**). //A Complete Chess Engine Parallelized Using Lazy SMP//. M.Sc. thesis, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oslo|University of Oslo]], [[https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/53769/master.pdf?sequence=1|pdf]]

=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [[https://github.com/emilfo/master|GitHub - emilfo/master - Kholin Chess Engine]]
==Misc==
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kholin|Igor Kholin from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stormlight_Archive|The Stormlight Archive from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://coppermind.net/wiki/House_Kholin|House Kholin - The Coppermind - 17th Shard]]

=References= 
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=What links here?= 
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