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Googleplex Starthinker,
an UCI compatible open source chess engine by Jost Triller, written in C++, first released in December 2018 ¹. Googleplex Starthinker is a bitboard engine and generates sliding piece attacks Kindergarten like, by looking up four pre-calculated line attack arrays, 32-Kbyte each, indexed by square and inner six bit line occupancy ².

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In the scripts for Fit the Fourth of the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series, the first programmer asks Deep Thought if it is not "a greater analyst than the Googleplex Starthinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity which can calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle throughout a five-week Aldebaran sand blizzard?", which the great computer dismisses because he has already "contemplated the very vectors of the atoms in the Big Bang itself" ³ ⁴ ⁵.