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|| [[image:Checkmate_for_a_robot.jpg  width="320" link="http://www.jmrw.com/Chess/Tableau_echecs/pages/180.htm"]] ||~ || **Robocide**,
an [[UCI]] compliant [[Open Source Engines|open source chess engine]] by [[Daniel White]], written in [[C]] from scratch, and distributed under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GNU General Public License]] <ref>[[https://github.com/DanielWhite94/robocide|GitHub - DanielWhite94/robocide - GitHub - DanielWhite94/robocide: Robocide is a free, open-source UCI chess engine written in C from scratch]]</ref>. Robocide uses [[Pradu Kannan|Pradu Kannan's]] [[Magic Bitboards]] to determine [[Sliding Piece Attacks|sliding piece attacks]]. The ability to compile a 'tuning' version, allows to adjust many of the [[Search|search]] and [[Evaluation|evaluation]] parameters via UCI options <ref>[[https://github.com/DanielWhite94/robocide/blob/master/Readme.md|robocide/Readme.md at master · DanielWhite94/robocide · GitHub]]</ref>. ||
|| [[Arts#Pałucha|Jacek Pałucha]] - Checkmate for a robot <ref>[[http://www.jmrw.com/Chess/Tableau_echecs/index.htm|Tableaux ayant pour sujet les échecs]]</ref> ||~   ||^   ||
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=Features=
==[[Board Representation]]==
* [[Bitboards]]
* [[Magic Bitboards]]
* [[BitScan#DeBruijnMultiplation|BitScan Forward by De Bruijn Multiplication]] or [[BMI1#TZCNT|Trailing Zero Count intrinsic]] 
* [[Population Count#SWARPopcount|SWAR-Popcount]] or [[x86-64#gpinstructions|64-bit popcount instruction]] 
==[[Search]]==
* [[Iterative Deepening]]
* [[Principal Variation Search]]
* [[Transposition Table]]
* [[Move Ordering]]
** [[Internal Iterative Deepening]]
** [[History Heuristic]]
** [[Killer Heuristic]]
* [[Selectivity]]
** [[Check Extensions]]
** [[Mate Distance Pruning]]
** [[Null Move Pruning]]
** [[Late Move Reductions]]
** [[Quiescence Search]]
** [[SEE - The Swap Algorithm|SEE Pruning]]
==[[Evaluation]]==
* [[Tapered Eval]]
* [[Score#Grain|Score Grain]] in [[Millipawns]]
* [[Material]]
* [[Material Hash Table]]
* [[Piece-Square Tables]]
* [[Pawn Structure]]
** [[Pawn Hash Table]]
** [[Passed Pawn]]
** [[Doubled Pawn]]
** [[Isolated Pawns (Bitboards)|Isolated Pawn]]
* [[Evaluation of Pieces]]
** [[Mobility|Bishop Mobility]]
** [[Trapped Pieces]]
** [[Rook on Open File]]
** [[Rook On Seventh|Rook on 7th Rank]]
* [[King Safety]]
** [[King Safety#PawnShield|King Safety - Pawn Shield]]
** [[Castling|Castling Ability]]
* [[Tempo|Tempo Bonus]]
==Misc==
* [[Interior Node Recognizer]]
* [[KPK]] [[Endgame Bitbases|Bitbase]]
* [[Perft]]
* [[Pondering]]

=See also=
* [[iota]]
* [[RobboLito]]
* [[Robots]]

=Forum Posts=
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=51120|CCWiki - two new engines etc.]] by [[Norbert Raimund Leisner]], [[CCC]], January 31, 2014
> [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=51120&start=1|Re: CCWiki - two new engines etc.]] by [[Daniel White]], [[CCC]], January 31, 2014
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=51293|Mac OS X for Robocide?]] by [[Norbert Raimund Leisner]], [[CCC]], February 15, 2014
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60048|Robocide newer compilation request]] by [[Günther Simon]], [[CCC]], May 04, 2016

=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [[https://github.com/DanielWhite94/robocide|GitHub - DanielWhite94/robocide]]
* [[http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404/cgi/engine_details.cgi?print=Details&eng=Robocide#Robocide|Robocide]] in [[CCRL|CCRL 40/4]]
==Misc==
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robo|Robo from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/robo-|robo- - Wiktionary]]
* [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-cide|-cide - Wiktionary]]
* [[http://www.playraven.com/blog/2015/3/23/get-ready-for-robocide|Get ready for Robocide! — PlayRaven]], March 23, 2015
* [[Videos#JonasHellborg|Jonas Hellborg]] with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Velez|Glen Velez]] - Regicide, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_Moriende|Ars Moriende]] (1994), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube|YouTube]] Video
> [[media type="youtube" key="993isHsG2Y4" width="560"]]

=References= 
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=What links here?= 
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