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|| [[image:Grapevinesnail_01.jpg link="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grapevinesnail_01.jpg"]] ||~ || **SnailChess**,
an experimental [[WinBoard]] compliant chess engine by [[Rasjid Chan]] with the fame of a slow searcher, written in [[C]], first released in November 1999. SnailChess started as plain [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta]] searcher, SnailChess **1.07** used [[NegaScout]] with [[Transposition Table|transposition table]] and [[Null Move Pruning|null move pruning]] <ref>[[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=32444|SnailChess ver 1.07]] by [[Rasjid Chan]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], September 28, 2000</ref>, an intermediate **SnailSCP** was a partial clone of [[TSCP]] <ref>[[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=31555|SnailChess-new release]] by [[Rasjid Chan]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], June 03, 2000</ref>. 

The last public SnailChess **4.013** was released in June 2002 <ref>SnailChess **4.013** is available from the [[RWBC]] download site</ref>. Then SnailChess became a testbed for various [[Board Representation|board representations]] and [[Move Generation|move generation]] techniques, using [[Incremental Updates|incremental updated]] [[Attack and Defend Maps|attack tables]] and various [[Bitboards|bitboard]] methods such as [[Rotated Bitboards|rotated]] and [[Magic Bitboards|magic bitboards]], and applied an [[Iterative Search|iterative search]] with a [[Stack|stack]] of structs <ref> [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5452&p=27108|Re: Fastest Magic Move Bitboard Generator ready to use]] by [[Rasjid Chan]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], August 28, 2006</ref>. ||
|| Helix pomatia <ref>[[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grapevinesnail_01.jpg|Picture]] of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix_pomatia|Helix pomatia]] by [[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Heliodor|Jürgen Schoner]], May 23, 2005, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail|Snail from Wikipedia]]</ref>||~ ||^ ||
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=See also=
* [[Various Classifications#Mollusca|Mollusca]]

=Forum Posts=
==1999==
* [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=30497|New kid on the block : Snailchess]] by K1, [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], November 04, 1999
* [[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=79029|SOS 031199, Ant 4.16 und SnailChess 1.01]] by [[Andreas Herrmann]], [[CCC]], November 22, 1999
==2000 ...==
* [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=31555|SnailChess-new release]] by [[Rasjid Chan]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], June 03, 2000
* [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=32444|SnailChess ver 1.07]] by [[Rasjid Chan]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], September 28, 2000
* [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=33767|SnailChess Copper, a new re-write]] by [[Rasjid Chan]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], May 12, 2001
* [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=33788|SnailChess Copper ver 2.1]] by [[Rasjid Chan]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], May 18, 2001
* [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=35095|SnailChess Ver 3.01 is now at homepage]] by [[Rasjid Chan]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], November 19, 2001
* [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=35649|SnailChess]] by [[Andreas Herrmann]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], January 08, 2002
* [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=37851|SnailChess Copper Revived- Ver 4.0]] by [[Rasjid Chan]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], June 21, 2002
==2005 ...==
* [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2101&p=9758|Does simple futility prune work]] by [[Rasjid Chan]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], March 27, 2005
* [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3370&p=17074|Re: NPS]] by [[Rasjid Chan]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], September 01, 2005
* [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4038&p=20576|Help! SnailChess Debug problem]] by [[Rasjid Chan]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], December 28, 2005
* [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5452&p=27108|Re: Fastest Magic Move Bitboard Generator ready to use]] by [[Rasjid Chan]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], August 28, 2006
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14366&start=9|Re: Help Finding X]] by [[Rasjid Chan]], [[CCC]], June 09, 2007  » [[KPK]]

=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [[http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/SnailChess.html|SnailChess]] from [[WBEC|WBEC Ridderkerk]]
* [[http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404/cgi/engine_details.cgi?print=Details&each_game=1&eng=SnailChess%204.013|SnailChess 4.013]] in [[CCRL|CCRL 40/4]]
* [[http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/kcec/cgi/engine_details.cgi?print=Details&each_game=1&eng=SnailChess%204.013|SnailChess 4.013]] in [[KCEC]]
==Misc==
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail|Snail from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail_%28disambiguation%29|Snail (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix_%28gastropod%29|Helix (gastropod) from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail_slime|Snail slime from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://www.wikistupidia.com/2010/10/08/a-snail-can-slide-over-a-razor-blade-without-being-hurt/|A snail can slide over a razor blade without being hurt. | Wikistupidia]] <ref>[[http://www.wdr.de/tv/kopfball/sendungsbeitraege/2009/1025/schleimspur.jsp|Warum können Schnecken über Rasierklingen kriechen, ohne sich zu verletzen?]],  [[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopfball_%28Show%29|Kopfball]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Erste|DasErste]] (German)</ref> 
* [[http://sknail.com/|SKNAIL]] - The Other Side, produced by [[https://ch.linkedin.com/pub/bastien-bron/70/b6/128|Bastien Bron]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube|YouTube]] Video 
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=References= 
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