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CHESSV COPYRIGHT (C) 2007-2016 BY GREGORY STRONG
ChessV is an open-source Universal Chess Program with graphical user-interface,
sophisticated AI, support for opening books, and other features of traditional Chess programs.
Currently, over 50 chess variants are supported.
ChessV is released under version 2 of the GNU General Public License.
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There is no installation program. Simply unzip and run ChessV.exe. Although this is a Windows program, it can also be run on Linux under Wine.
Also included is an executible named ChessV_Winboard.exe which allows running the ChessV engine under Winboard. |
Supported Variants:
- Alapo
- Almost Chess
- Angels and Devils
- Archchess
- Berolina Chess
- Bird’s Chess
- Cagliostro’s Chess
- Capablanca Chess
- Capablanca Chess, Aberg variant
- Capablanca Chess, Paulowich variant
- Carrera’s Chess
- Chess256
- Chess 480
- Chess with Augmented Knights
- Chess with Different Armies
- Chess with Ultima Pieces
- Courier Chess
- Cylindrical Chess
- Diagonal Chess
- Diamond Chess
- Embassy Chess
- Emperor’s Game
- Enep
- Eurasian Chess
- Exinction Chess
- Fischer Random Chess
- Great Chess
- Great Shatranj
- Grand Chess
- Grotesque Chess
- Janus Chess
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- Janus Kamil Chess
- Kinglet
- Ladorean Chess
- Latrunculi duo milia et septum
- Legan’s Game
- Lemurian Shatranj
- Lions and Unicorns Chess
- Los Alamos Chess
- Modern Kamil
- Modern Shatranj
- Odin’s Rune Chess
- Opti Chess (mirror I)
- Opulent Chess
- Orthodox Chess
- Polymorph Chess
- Roman Chess
- Royal Court
- Schoolbook Chess
- Shatranj
- Shatranj Kamil
- Shatranj Kamil (64)
- Sosarian Chess
- Switching Chess
- TenCubed Chess
- Three Checks Chess
- Ultima
- Unicorn Chess
- Unicorn Great Chess
- Unicorn Grand Chess
- Univers Chess
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Search Engine Features:
Searching
- Alpha-Beta Nega-Max Principal Variation search
- Iterative Deepening
- Null-move Forward Pruning
- Internal Iterative Deepening (IID)
- Static Exchange Evaluation (SEE)
- Search Extensions:
- check extension
- null-move threat extension
- Futility Pruning and Razoring
- Killer-move Heuristic
- Late Move Reductions (LMR)
Evaluation
- Piece-square tables
- Pawn structure evaluation
- Mobility evaluation
- King Safety
- King Tropism
- Lazy Evaluation
Hash Tables
- Transposition Table
- Pawn Structure Table
- Evaluation Cache
- Repetetion Detection
Current Limitations:
- No games with more than two players are supported.
- No game with a move order other than the usual white-black-white-black is supported (such as double-move chess.)
- No games with randomness or hidden information are supported.
- No ability to edit the board mid-game is provided.
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