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|| [[image:Tigran_Petrosian_World_Chess_Champion.jpg link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tigran_Petrosian_World_Chess_Champion.jpg"]] ||~ || **Tigran**,
an [[UCI]] compliant chess engine written by [[Gábor Mihály]] in [[Cpp|C++]]. First released as free engine in November 2012, and available as 64 and 32 bit [[Windows]] executable <ref>[[http://tigran.swhu.tk/#|Tigran - Home]]</ref>, Tigran's development already started in 2005 <ref>[[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/gabor-mihaly/50/221/203|Gabor Mihaly | LinkedIn]]</ref>, and had its tournament debut at the [[MASPV 2008|Hungarian Sakkprogramok Versenye 2008]].  ||
|| Tigran Petrosian <ref>Tigran Petrosian in 1975, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigran_Petrosian|Tigran Petrosian from Wikipedia]]</ref> ||~ ||^ ||
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=Description=
Tigran is a [[Bitboards|bitboard]] engine and applies [[Kindergarten Bitboards|kindergarten bitboards]] to determine [[Sliding Piece Attacks|sliding piece attacks]]. The [[Search|search]] is [[Principal Variation Search|PVS]] [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta]] with [[Transposition Table|transposition table]], [[Null Move Pruning|null move pruning]] and [[Late Move Reductions|late move reductions]] inside an [[Iterative Deepening|iterative deepening]] framework. Beside the dominating [[Material|material]] term, the basic [[Evaluation|evaluation]] considers [[King Safety|king safety]], [[Mobility|mobility]] and [[Pawn Structure|pawn structure]].

=See also=
* [[Various Classifications#ChessLegend|Chess Legends]]
* [[Various Classifications#GivenName|Given Name]]

=Namesake=
* [[Tigran ES|Tigran]] by [[Natalia Parés|Josep Parés]]

=Forum Posts=
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50110|Tigran chess engine]] by Carl Langan, [[CCC]], November 17, 2013

=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [[http://tigran.swhu.tk/#|Tigran - Home]]
* [[http://computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/cgi/engine_details.cgi?match_length=30&each_game=1&print=Details&each_game=1&eng=Tigran%202.4%2064-bit#Tigran_2_4_64-bit|Tigran 2.4 64-bit]] in [[CCRL|CCRL 40/40]]
==Misc==
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigran_%28disambiguation%29|Tigran (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigran_Gharamian|Tigran Gharamian from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigran_Petrosian|Tigran Petrosian from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigran_L._Petrosian|Tigran L. Petrosian from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://www.flagey.be/en/program/14734/tigran-shadow-theater/tigran-hamasyan-areni-agbabian-sam-minaie-ben-wendel-nate-wood|Tigran Quintet]] -  The Glass-Hearted Queen, [[http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/09/angel-city-jazz-festival-preview.html|Angel City Jazz Festival's 'Global Jam']], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Anson_Ford_Amphitheatre|John Anson Ford Amphitheatre]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_County,_California|L.A. County]], October 01, 2011
> [[Videos#TigranHamasyan|Tigran Hamasyan]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Wood|Nate Wood]], [[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/areni-agbabian/10/6a1/37a|Areni Agbabian]], [[https://www.facebook.com/sam.minaie|Sam Minaie]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Wendel|Ben Wendel]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube|YouTube]] Video
> [[media type="custom" key="24439496"]]

=References= 
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