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|| [[image:250px-Turk-engraving5.jpg link="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Turk-engraving5.jpg"]] ||~ || **The Turk**,
a [[WinBoard]] compliant [[Open Source Engines|open source chess engine]] by [[Yakup Ipek|Yakup İpek]] written in [[C sharp|C#]]. The Turk applies [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta]] [[Principal Variation Search|PVS]] with [[Null Move Pruning|null move pruning]] and [[Late Move Reductions|late move reductions]] inside the [[Iterative Deepening|iterative deepening]] framework with [[Aspiration Windows|aspiration windows]]. [[Move Ordering|Move ordering]] is enhanced by [[History Heuristic|history heuristic]] and [[Killer Heuristic|killer heuristic]], and by [[MVV-LVA|MVV/LVA]] in [[Quiescence Search|quiescence search]] <ref>[[http://theturk.codeplex.com/|The Turk - Home]]</ref>. ||
|| The Turk  <ref>Copper engraving from the book: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Gottlieb_von_Windisch|Karl Gottlieb von Windisch]] (**1783**). //Briefe über den Schachspieler [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_von_Kempelen|von Kempelen]] nebst drey Kupferstichen die diese berühmte Maschine vorstellen//. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk|The Turk from Wikipedia]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons|Wikimedia Commons]]</ref> <ref>[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_von_Kempelen|Wolfgang von Kempelen from Wikipedia]]</ref> <ref>[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Nepomuk_Maelzel|Johann Nepomuk Maelzel from Wikipedia]]</ref> <ref>[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maelzel%27s_Chess_Player|Maelzel's Chess Player from Wikipedia]]</ref> ||~ ||^ ||
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=Namesake=
* [[The Turk]] by [[Yngvi Björnsson]] and [[Andreas Junghanns]]

=See also= 
* [[Kempelen]]
* [[Mr. Turk]]
* [[Raspberry Turk]]
* [[The Baron]]

=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [[http://theturk.codeplex.com/|The Turk - Home]]
==Misc==
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk|The Turk from Wikipedia]], the historic fake chess-playing machine
* [[http://www.chessbase.de/nachrichten.asp?newsid=3052|Ein Türke in Paderborn]] by [[Mathias Feist]] and [[Karsten Bauermeister]], [[ChessBase|ChessBase Nachrichten]], April 06, 2004 (German)

=References= 
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=What links here?= 
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