Desperado
[ A desperado is generally indiscreet [1] Desperado,
a private chess engine [2] by David Blackman, under development since 1989. It has a few extensions, heavy null move pruning, hash tables, a moderately complex evaluation function, and no opening book.
Tournament Play
Desperado has played in most of the NC3 tournaments, and all the ANU Carbon-Silicon Tournaments before that. Highlights include a win against IM Guy West the year he became Australian Champion, and two third places in NC3.
Selected Games
NC3 2006, round 3, Desperado - LittleThought
See also
Forum Posts
- Re: Enhanced Transposition Cutoff by David Blackman, CCC, May 18, 1998 » Enhanced Transposition Cutoff
External Links
Chess Engine
Misc
- desperado - Wiktionary
- disparado - Wiktionary
- desperate - Wiktionary
- despero - Wiktionary
- Desperado (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
- Desperado (chess) from Wikipedia
- Yamandu Costa, Thiago Espirito Santo, Kiko Freitas - Disparada, YouTube Video
References
- ↑ Illustration by Maximilian Schäfer from the book Der Schatz des Kaziken (German). Adventures and struggles of a young German with the desperadoes in the Wild West, Eginhard von Barfus. Stuttgart, K. Thienemanns Verlag, Anton Hoffmann. (1890), Desperado (chess) from Wikipedia
- ↑ Private Engine List from Ron Murawski’s Computer-Chess Wiki
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