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**[[Home]] * [[Engines]] * WildCat** || [[image:Lydekker_cat_fawn.jpg link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lydekker_cat_fawn.png"]] ||~ || **WildCat**, a [[WinBoard]], and since version 8, [[UCI]] compliant chess engine written by [[Igor Korshunov]] in [[Cpp|C++]], first released in November 2000 <ref>[[http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/WildCat.html|WildCat]] from [[WBEC|WBEC Ridderkerk]]</ref>. WildCat's [[Search|search]] relies on [[Principal Variation Search|PVS]] and [[Null Move Pruning|null move pruning]] with [[Null Move Pruning#ZugzwangVerification|verification search]], [[Late Move Reductions|late move reductions]], and [[Futility Pruning|futility pruning]] and [[Razoring|razoring]] at [[Frontier Nodes|frontier nodes]]. [[Move Ordering|Move ordering]] is applied by [[Killer Heuristic|killer-]] and [[History Heuristic|history heuristic]] - history table indexed by [[Pieces|piece-type]] and [[Target Square|target square]], [[Internal Iterative Deepening|IID]] and [[Static Exchange Evaluation|SEE]]. WildCat keeps two best moves in the [[Transposition Table|transposition table]], and considers [[Check|checks]] at the first [[Ply|ply]] of the [[Quiescence Search|quiescence search]] <ref>[[http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/Norbert%27s%20collection/WildCat%20%28Compilation%29/v8/history.txt|WildCat/v8/history.txt]]</ref>.|| || Wildcat killing a Deer fawn <ref>Sketch of a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_wildcat|European wildcat]] killing a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer|deer fawn]], source: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lydekker|Richard Lydekker]] (**1916**). //Wild life of the world : a descriptive survey of the geographical distribution of animals//. Vol. I, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat|Wildcat from Wikipedia]]</ref> ||~ ||^ || [[toc]] =Tournament Play= So far, WildCat played the [[CCT5]] and [[CCT6]] [[CCT Tournaments]], and was winner of the [[CCCCISC 2008]], the first [[Computer Chess Championship of CIS Countries]]. =Selected Games= [[CCCCISC 2008]], round 5, [[WildCat]] - [[Booot]] <ref>[[http://www.sdchess.ru/febr_march_08.htm|Новости за февраль - март 2008 года, 29 февраля 2008 г.]] from [[http://www.sdchess.ru/|sdchess.ru]]</ref> [[code]] [Event "CCCCISC 2008"] [Site "Moscow SDCHESS RGSU"] [Date "2008.03.02"] [Round "5"] [White "WildCat 8 CIS"] [Black "Booot 4.14 Moscow"] [Result "1-0"] 1.d4 e6 2.e4 d5 3.Nd2 c5 4.Ngf3 cxd4 5.exd5 Qxd5 6.Bc4 Qd6 7.O-O Nf6 8.Nb3 Nc6 9.Nbxd4 Nxd4 10.Nxd4 Bd7 11.b3 Be7 12.a4 Qb8 13.Qf3 O-O 14.Bg5 Qe5 15.Bxf6 Bxf6 16.Qxb7 Qd6 17.c3 Bxd4 18.cxd4 Bc6 19.Qa6 Rfb8 20.Rac1 Rb6 21.Qa5 Qxd4 22.Rcd1 Qf4 23.Rd3 Rbb8 24.Rfd1 h6 25.Qc3 Rc8 26.Rg3 g5 27.Rd4 Qf5 28.h4 Bd5 29.hxg5 hxg5 30.Rh4 f6 31.f4 Bxc4 32.fxg5 Kf7 33.gxf6 Rg8 34.Rxc4 Qb1+ 35.Kh2 Rh8+ 36.Rh3 Rxh3+ 37.Qxh3 Qf5 38.Rc7+ Kxf6 39.Qh6+ Qg6 40.Qh4+ Qg5 1-0 [[code]] =See also= * [[Bobcat]] * [[CookieCat]] * [[Various Classifications#Mammal|Mammal]] * [[Murka]] =Forum Posts= * [[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=167664|WildCat 2.55 Winboard Engine is Released!]] by [[Arturo Ochoa]], [[CCC]], May 03, 2001 * [[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=278919|WildCat 2.74 is available]] by [[Igor Korshunov|Igor V. Korshunov]], [[CCC]], January 22, 2003 * [[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=288832|WildCat 2.79 is available]] by [[Igor Korshunov|Igor V. Korshunov]], [[CCC]], March 03, 2003 * [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5876|WildCat 7]] by [[Igor Korshunov]], [[Computer Chess Forums|WinBoard Forum]], November 16, 2006 =External Links= ==Chess Engine== * [[http://www.igorkorshunov.narod.ru/WildCat/|WildCat download page]] * [[http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/Norbert%27s%20collection/WildCat%20%28Compilation%29/|Index of /chess/engines/Norbert's collection/WildCat (Compilation)]] by [[Norbert Raimund Leisner]], hosted by [[Kirill Kryukov]] * [[http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/WildCat.html|WildCat]] from [[WBEC|WBEC Ridderkerk]] ==Misc== * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat|Wildcat from Wikipedia]] * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_%28disambiguation%29|Wildcat (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]] > [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_banking|Wildcat banking]] > [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_strike_action|Wildcat strike action from Wikipedia]] > [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17493_Wildcat|17493 Wildcat from Wikipedia]] * [[Videos#UrszulaDudziak|Urszula Dudziak]] - The Cats, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube|YouTube]] Video > [[media type="custom" key="24798944"]] =References= <references /> =What links here?= [[include page="WildCat" component="backlinks" limit="60"]] **[[Engines|Up one Level]]**