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|| <span style="font-size: 500%;">Ιώτα</span> ||~   || **iota**, (Iota)
a minimalist [[Open Source Engines|open source chess engine]] by [[Daniel White]], written in [[C]], supporting the full rules of chess and a subset of the [[UCI]] protocol <ref>'uci'/'uciok', 'isready'/'readyok', 'position' and 'go'/'bestmove'</ref>. The source code consists of about 1788 characters, not counting comments or white spaces <ref>[[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44325|New 'Micro' Chess Engine - Iota 0.1]] by [[Daniel White]], [[CCC]], July 07, 2012</ref> . It accepts [[En passant|en passant]], [[Promotions|minor promotions]] and [[Castling|castling]] - but will never castle itself <ref>[[https://github.com/DanielWhite94/iota|GitHub - DanielWhite94/iota: iota aims to be a tiny C chess engine, supporting the full rules of chess, as well as a standard protocol]]</ref> . Iota performs [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta]], and considers [[Material|material]] and [[Center Distance|center bonus]] for pawns, knights and bishops in [[Evaluation|evaluation]]. ||
|| [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language|Greek]] Iota <ref>[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota|Iota from Wikipedia]]</ref> ||~ ||^ ||
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=See also= 
* [[Gaviota]]
* [[Micro-Max]]
* [[Toledo|Toledo Nanochess]]

=Forum Posts= 
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44325|New 'Micro' Chess Engine - Iota 0.1]] by [[Daniel White]], [[CCC]], July 07, 2012
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44360|IOTA - a new UCI chess engine by Daniel White !]] by [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=881|Ruxy Sylwyka]], [[CCC]], July 10, 2012

=External Links= 
==Chess Engine== 
* [[https://github.com/DanielWhite94/iota|GitHub - DanielWhite94/iota: iota aims to be a tiny C chess engine, supporting the full rules of chess, as well as a standard protocol]]
* [[http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/Jim%20Ablett/IOTA/|Index of /chess/engines/Jim Ablett/IOTA]] by [[Jim Ablett]], hosted by [[Kirill Kryukov]]
* [[http://adamsccpages.blogspot.de/p/also-rans-rating-list.html|Also-Rans Rating List]] by [[Adam Hair]]
==Misc== 
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota|Iota from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota_and_Jot|Iota and Jot from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota_%28disambiguation%29|Iota (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iota|iota - Wiktionary]]

=References= 
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