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Ferret ,
a chess engine by
Bruce Moreland. Ferret won the Amateur World Microcomputer Chess Champion Title in
Paderborn 1995 and was two times winner of the World Microcomputer Speed-Chess Champion, in
Jakarta 1996 and
Paris 1997. Ferret became runner up at the
14th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Jakarta 1996 without losing a game. At the
9th World Computer Chess Championship, Paderborn 1999, Ferret was unlucky in not winning a dramatical playoff against
Shredder.
Photos & Games#
WCCC 1999, Round 6: Ferret -
Shredder,
Stefan Meyer-Kahlen and
Bruce Moreland [2] [3]
Board Representation#
Quote by
Bruce Moreland [4]:
Descriptions#
By Bruce Moreland#
Description of Ferret from Bruce Moreland’s site [5] :
1995#
Description given in 1995 from the
ICCA site [6] :
1997#
Description given in 1997 from the
ICCA site:
GNU Chess?#
The quote of
Monty Newborn in Beyond Deep Blue [7], pg. 29 [8]
is not correct, neither was
GNU Chess a program by Bruce Moreland, nor was Ferret a derivative of GNU Chess [9]:
See also#
Forum Posts#
- Repetition detection w/hash tables by
Bruce Moreland,
rec.games.chess, August 14, 1993 »
Repetitions,
Transposition Table
- Re: Quiescence search problems (solved) by
Bruce Moreland,
rgcc, May 06, 1996 »
Quiescence Search,
Move Ordering
- Ferret info by
Dann Corbit,
rgcc, September 26, 1997
- Re: Ferret/Gerbil question by
Bruce Moreland,
CCC, September 21, 2001 »
Gerbil
- Ferret 1.00 v258 - program from 1995 by
Norbert Raimund Leisner,
CCC, October 01, 2013
External Links#
Chess Engine#
Misc#
References#
- ↑ A picture of a ferret’s teeth, very white and in good condition,
Ferret from Wikipedia
- ↑ Image captured from
Paderborn 1999 1.mp4 by
Thorsten Czub hosted by
Ed Schröder
- ↑
Paderborn 1999 - Chess - Round 6 - Game 3 (ICGA Tournaments)
- ↑
Re: Ferret/Gerbil question by
Bruce Moreland,
CCC, September 21, 2001
- ↑
Ferret’s Description by
Bruce Moreland
- ↑
Ferret’s ICGA Tournaments
- ↑
Monty Newborn (2011). Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere.
Springer, ISBN-13: 978-0857293404,
amazon
- ↑
Download Sample pages 2 (pdf, 3.2 MB)
- ↑
The chess games of Ferret (Computer) from
chessgames.com
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