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Chess engine: Halogen 3.0

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Halogen - UCI chess engine
Author: Kieren Pearson

A c++ chess engine that implements Null-move pruning, Late move reductions, Quiessence search and a transposition table that uses Zobrist Hashing.

 New Features
King tropism
Will detect insufficient material
Program will continue to search as time permits to find a quicker checkmate
Search function rewritten to implement negascout
Killer move heuristic
History move heuristic
Quiescence search rewritten
Delta pruning
Separate move generator when in check
Incrementally updated Zobrist keys

 Bug Fixes
Fixed an assert which would cause a program crash if compiled in debug mode

Mate scores are now handled correctly by the transposition table

 Halogen 3.0 download
All files (games, tables and engines) - download from page

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