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**Madlenka**,
an [[UCI]] compliant experimental [[Open Source Engines|open source chess engine]] by [[Peter Garscha]], written in [[Cpp|C++]] and released under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GNU General Public License]], version 3. Interesting are various playing modes, that is [[Search|search algorithms]] and/or [[Evaluation|evaluations]] to choose from, such as [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta]] with or without [[Quiescence Search|quiescence]], [[Monte-Carlo Tree Search#PureMCS|pure Monte-Carlo search]], [[Monte-Carlo Tree Search|Monte-Carlo tree search]], and [[UCT]], the latter with similarity modes, where moves inside the [[Search Tree|search tree]] or during the playouts are [[Pruning|pruned]] based on a [[Databases|database]] of many played [[Chess Game|chess games]], initializing  a similarity lookup-table .

=Etymology=
Madlenka is a female given name. It is an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Sorbian_language|Upper Sorbian]] form of  [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalena|Magdalena]] or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalene_%28given_name%29|Magdalene]]. It is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminutive|diminutive]] of the name Madlena, but used as an independent given name <ref>[[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madlenka|Madlenka – Wikipedia.de]] (German)</ref>. 

=See also=
* [[Various Classifications#GivenName|Given Name]]
* [[Madeleine]]

=Forum Posts=
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55298|Madlenka Chess Engine (Monte Carlo)]] by AA Ross, [[CCC]], February 11, 2015

=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [[http://www.chess4linux.net/|Madlenka Chess Engine]] (dead link)
* [[https://github.com/petergar/madlenka|petergar/madlenka · GitHub]] (no longer available) <ref>For download see [[Ron Murawski|Ron Murawski's]] [[http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list|Computer Chess Wiki]]</ref>
==Misc==
* [[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madlenka|Madlenka – Wikipedia.de]] (German)

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