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|| [[image:Alice_par_John_Tenniel_37.jpg link="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alice_par_John_Tenniel_37.png"]] ||~ || **Rabbit**, (Rabbit Chess)
a free 32-bit [[Windows]] chess program with an own [[GUI]], written by [[Roberto Waldteufel]], released in 1998 via [[Đorđe Vidanović|Đorđe Vidanović's]] site and [[Gambit-Soft]] <ref>[[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=33136|Rabbit available for download]] by [[Roberto Waldteufel]], [[CCC]], November 16, 1998</ref>. Written in [[Basic|Powerbasic]] <ref>[[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=108009|Re: Tablebase Access Code]] by [[Roberto Waldteufel]], [[CCC]], April 26, 2000</ref>, it is augmented with some [[Assembly|Assembler]] to speed up the most CPU intensive parts like the [[Evaluation function|evaluation function]] and [[Make Move|move making]] and [[Unmake Move|unmaking]] <ref>[[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=25740|Re: Chess in BASIC?]] by [[Roberto Waldteufel]], [[CCC]], August 31, 1998</ref>. Apparently, Rabbit is a [[Bitboards|bitboard]] engine and applies the dense version of [[Rotated Bitboards|rotated bitboards]] considering the attack redundancy of the [[First Rank Attacks#TheOuterSquares|outer squares]] <ref>[[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=31456|Re: Extracting information from rotated Bitboards]] by [[Roberto Waldteufel]], [[CCC]], November 02, 1998</ref>. It performs a [[Principal Variation Search|principal variation search]] with [[Aspiration Windows|aspiration windows]], [[Piece-Square Tables#Preprocessing|preprocessing]] at the [[Root|root]], and searched about 30K to 50K [[Nodes per second|nodes per second]] on a [[x86|Pentium]] 200 MHz [[MMX]] <ref>[[http://chess.fsv.de/Summer98/descript.htm#Roberto%20Waldteufel|Summer98-Tournament: Description]] by [[Torsten Schoop]]</ref>. ||
|| [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rabbit|The White Rabbit]] <ref>Original artwork (1865) by [[Arts#Tenniel|John Tenniel]], the novel by [[Various Classifications#Carroll|Lewis Carroll]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland|Alice in Wonderland]], [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/John_Tenniel|John Tenniel - Wikimedia Commons]]</ref> ||~ ||^ ||
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=Rabbit's Paradise=
|| [[image:640px-Papsofjura1.jpg link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Papsofjura1.jpg"]] ||
||  Where the Rabbit was born - Two of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paps_of_Jura|Paps of Jura]] <ref>Two of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paps_of_Jura|Paps of Jura]] taken from above [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caol_Ila_distillery|Caol lla]] on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islay|Islay]], by John Shaw, October 2002, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jura,_Scotland|Jura, Scotland - Wikipedia]]</ref>  <ref>[[http://www.scottishaccommodationindex.com/jurapics.htm|Isle of Jura History and Information]]</ref> ||
=Screenshot=
|| [[image:rabbit.gif link="http://www.septober.de/chess/index.htm"]] ||
|| Rabbit Chess <ref>[[http://www.septober.de/chess/index.htm|Septober - Computerschach]] by [[Herbert Marquardt]]</ref> ||

=See also=
* [[Various Classifications#Comics|Comics]]
* [[Fencer]]
* [[Various Classifications#Carroll|Lewis Carroll characters]]
* [[Various Classifications#Mammal|Mammal]]

=Forum Posts=
* [[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=19733|Rabbit beats heffalump with nice queen sac]] by [[Roberto Waldteufel]], [[CCC]], June 01, 1998
* [[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=25740|Re: Chess in BASIC?]] by [[Roberto Waldteufel]], [[CCC]], August 31, 1998 » [[Basic]]
* [[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=33136|Rabbit available for download]] by [[Roberto Waldteufel]], [[CCC]], November 16, 1998
* [[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=107902|Tablebase Access Code]] by [[Roberto Waldteufel]], [[CCC]], April 26, 2000 » [[Endgame Tablebases]] 
* [[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=194769|Okay, here it is: What is a rabbit?]] by [[Jeroen Noomen]], [[CCC]], October 29, 2001 » [[DOCCC 2001]]

=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [[http://chess.fsv.de/Summer98/descript.htm#Roberto%20Waldteufel|Summer98-Tournament: Description]] by [[Torsten Schoop]]
==Rabbit==
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit|Rabbit from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_%28disambiguation%29|Rabbit (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]]
> [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit|Moon rabbit from Wikipedia]]
> [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-proof_fence|Rabbit-proof fence from Wikipedia]]
> [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_%28cipher%29|Rabbit (cipher) from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Rabbits_and_hares|Portal: Rabbits and hares from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_rabbits_and_hares|List of fictional rabbits and hares from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_Bunny|Bugs Bunny from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Rabbit_%28disambiguation%29|Roger Rabbit (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]]
> [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Censored_Roger_Rabbit%3F|Who Censored Roger Rabbit? from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_%26_Gromit:_The_Curse_of_the_Were-Rabbit|Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, from Wikipedia]] » [[Gromit]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rabbit|White Rabbit from Wikipedia]]
> [[http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/tenniel/carter.html|John Tenniel's Natural Fantasy: The White Rabbit]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolpertinger|Wolpertinger from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Airplane|Jefferson Airplane]] - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rabbit_%28song%29|White Rabbit]] <ref>[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Dormouse_Said|What the Dormouse Said - Wikipedia]]</ref> <ref>[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dormouse|The Dormouse from Wikipedia]]</ref>, Live from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock|Woodstock 1969]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube|YouTube]] Video
> [[media type="youtube" key="Vl89g2SwMh4"]]

=References= 
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=What links here?= 
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