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Chess engine: Hopper Engine 1.7


Hopper Engine - UCI chess engine
Author: Jonathan McDermid  Rating CEDR=2715

v.1.7
Added internal iterative deepening, improved history heuristic and hashtable usage. Should be the largest ELO gain in a while.

Current Features:
negamax algorithm
material evaluation
alpha-beta pruning
iterative deepening
internal iterative deepening
principle variation search
transposition tables
pawn hash table
zobrist keys
null move pruning
quiescent search
aspiration windows
killer moves
MVV-LVA
LMR
History Heuristics


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