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|| [[image:320px-Monarch_In_May.jpg link="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monarch_In_May.jpg"]] ||~   || **Monarch**, (Monarch Chess)
an [[UCI]] compatible, free chess engine written in [[C]] by [[Steve Maughan]]. Monarch's board is internally [[Board Representation|represented]] as an [[Array|array]] (Version 1.0 used [[Bitboards|bitboards]] and a pre-generated move table), performs [[Principal Variation Search|PVS]] with [[Check|checks]] searched at the first [[Ply|ply]] of the [[Quiescence Search|quiescence]], in conjunction with [[Static Exchange Evaluation|SEE]], [[Killer Heuristic|killer]] and [[History Heuristic|history heuristic]], [[Null Move Pruning|null move pruning]] with [[Depth Reduction R|R]] = 3, [[Enhanced Transposition Cutoff|ETC]] and [[Internal Iterative Deepening|IID]], and the [[Evaluation|evaluation]] is based on [[Piece-Square Tables|piece square tables]] <ref>[[http://www.monarchchess.com/technical.html|What makes Monarch tick?]]</ref> . ||
|| Monarch Butterfly <ref>[[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monarch_In_May.jpg|Photograph]] of a Monarch Butterfly taken by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HaarFager|Kenneth Dwain Harrelson]] May 29, 2007, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_%28butterfly%29|Monarch (butterfly) from Wikipedia]]</ref> ||~   ||^   ||
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=See also=
* [[Various Classifications#Arthropod|Arthropod]]
* [[Maverick]]
* [[Various Classifications#Nobility|Nobility]]

=External Links= 
==Chess Engine==
* [[http://www.monarchchess.com/index.html|Monarch Chess Home Page]]
* [[http://www.stevemaughan.com/chess-reversi/monarch-chess/|Monarch UCI Chess Engine | Steve Maughan]]
* [[http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/cgi/engine_details.cgi?print=Details&eng=Monarch%201.7|Monarch 1.7]] in [[CCRL|CCRL 40/40]]
==Misc==
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_%28disambiguation%29|Monarch (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch|Monarch from Wikipedia]]

=References= 
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=What links here?= 
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