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SnailChess,
an experimental WinBoard compliant chess engine by Rasjid Chan with the fame of a slow searcher, written in C, first released in November 1999. SnailChess started as plain alpha-beta searcher, SnailChess 1.07 used NegaScout with transposition table and null move pruning 1, an intermediate SnailSCP was a partial clone of TSCP 2. The last public SnailChess 4.013 was released in June 2002. Then SnailChess became a testbed for various board representations and move generation techniques, using incremental updated attack tables and various bitboard methods such as rotated and magic bitboards, and applied an iterative search with a stack of structs 3.

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  1. Forum Posts
    1. 1999
    2. 2000 ...
    3. 2005 ...
  2. External Links
    1. Chess Engine
    2. Misc
  3. References

Forum Posts

1999

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2005 ...

Chess Engine

Misc

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  1. SnailChess ver 1.07 by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, September 28, 2000↩︎

  2. SnailChess-new release by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, June 03, 2000↩︎

  3. Re: Fastest Magic Move Bitboard Generator ready to use by Rasjid Chan, Winboard Forum, August 28, 2006↩︎

  4. Warum können Schnecken über Rasierklingen kriechen, ohne sich zu verletzen?, Kopfball DasErste (German)↩︎

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