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|| [[image:mediocre.jpg width="140" height="70" link="http://mediocrechess.blogspot.com/"]] ||~   || **Mediocre** is the result of a [[Mediocre#mediocrechessblog|chess programming blog]] written by [[Jonatan Pettersson]]. In the blog every aspect added to the engine is described in detail as it develops. Mediocre is written in [[Java]] and as of version 1.0 uses only the [[UCI]] protocol (earlier version used both [[UCI]] and [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol|xboard]]). ||
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=Features= 
* Written entirely in [[Java]]
* Supports the [[UCI]] and [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol|xboard]] protocols
* [[0x88]] board representation
* [[Late Move Reductions|Late move reductions]]
* [[Static Exchange Evaluation|Static exchange evaluation]]
* [[Evaluation|Static evaluation]] with [[Pawn Structure|pawn structure]], [[Attack and Defend Maps|attack tables]] etc.
* [[History Heuristic|History heuristic]]
* [[Killer Heuristic|Killer moves]]
* [[Aspiration Windows|Aspiration windows]]
* [[Principal Variation Search|PVS]]
* [[Transposition Table|Transposition tables]]
* [[Internal Iterative Deepening|Internal iterative deepening]]

=Forum Posts= 
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41223|Mediocre v0.4 released]] by [[Jonatan Pettersson]], [[CCC]], November 26, 2011
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44633|Mediocre v0.5 released]] by [[Jonatan Pettersson]], [[CCC]], July 30, 2012

=External Links= 
* [[http://mediocrechess.blogspot.com/|Mediocre Chess blog]] [[#Mediocrechessblog]]
* [[http://sourceforge.net/projects/mediocrechess/|Mediocre on Souceforge]]
* [[http://mediocrechess.sourceforge.net/|Mediocre website]]
* [[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mediocre|mediocre - Wiktionary]]

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