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Engine: Elephant

Author: Harald Luessen, Germany.

Move Now

Edit Mode

Analyze Mode

Opening Book

Create book

Ponder On/Off

Hash Tables

Table Bases

v1.06

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Yes

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No

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Draw claim

Resign

Force and go

Program language

Source available

Learn

XBoard

UCI

First release

Yes

No

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Ms Visual C++

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16-03-2004.

WinBoard.ini lines:
"Elephant xboard" /fd=d:\Winboard\Elephant
"Elephant xboard" /sd=d:\Winboard\Elephant

Configuration: Elephant.ini

Homepage: No.
Download: Below.
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Copyright ©
Elephant by Harald Luessen, Hamburg, Germany.

Available version:

Elephant 1.00 (use 150 MB RAM!),
Elephant 1.01,
Elephant 1.02,
Elephant 1.03,
Elephant 1.04,
Elephant 1.05,
Elephant 1.06

Last changes:

1.06, 20041030
- changed: fractional plies and extensions
- changed: smaller slider attack table (rotated bitboards)
- changed: slighly improved time management uses more time after fail low
- changed: some evaluation factors
- new: incremental piece counter
- new: simple trojan attack detection
- changed: king safety evaluation
- new: generate checking moves and check evasion moves
- new: piece board[64] as addition to bitboards
- many new features can be switched on and off via #if
- fixed: better null move representation
- new: statistic module for debugging and analysis
- changed: better root move order based on node count
- changed: better move order takes more infos into account
- new: dangerous experiments with move number extension
- changed: make sure the principle variation is in the hash table
- changed: fractional pruning, razoring, extensions and nullmove depend on 
  positional evaluation, king safety or other terms
- changed: details in the quiescence search
- changed: details in repetition detection
- changed: details in input handling
- changed: details in ponder move handling
- new: hashing mate threats
- new: hash recommends null move
- fixed: many bugs



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