KnightCap
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Original author(s) | Andrew Tridgell |
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Written in | C |
Platform | Unix |
Type | Chess engine |
License | GNU General Public License |
Website | www |
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KnightCap is an open source computer chess engine. Its primary author is Andrew Tridgell and it was created circa 1996. Major contributions have also been made by Jon Baxter and probably minor contributions by a few others. KnightCap is free software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
In most ways, KnightCap is a fairly typical modern program. It uses
In addition, KnightCap has support for multi-processor computers, in particular the now obsolete Fujitsu CAP computer research machines.
The most original feature of KnightCap, introduced in the late 1990s, was an experiment in temporal difference learning as applied to chess. This technique allowed KnightCap to automatically tune the weights applied to the various features in its evaluation function based on the games it played.
For a while in the 1990s, KnightCap was quite active on