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[_detail.jpg) Little thought No. 2 [1] LittleThought,

a free UCI compatible chess engine by Nathan Thom, written in C++, first mentioned in 2003 [2]. Since v1.05 in 2010, LittleThought is able to play Chess960 [3].

Tournament Play#

LittleThought played the NC3 2006 Australasian National Computer Chess Championship.

Selected Games#

NC3 2006, round 4, LittleThought - Fencer

[Event "NC3 2006"]
[Site "RedHill, Canberra, Australia"]
[Date "2006.08.20"]
[Round "4"]
[White "LittleThought"]
[Black "Fencer"]
[Result "1-0"]

1.e4 Nc6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 Qxd5 4.Nf3 e6 5.a3 Bd7 6.Nc3 Qa5 7.Bd2 Qf5 8.Nb5 
Rc8 9.Bd3 Qg4 10.h3 Qh5 11.g4 Qd5 12.c4 Ne5 13.Nxc7+ Rxc7 14.cxd5 Nxd3+ 
15.Kf1 Nxb2 16.Qb3 Nc4 17.Bf4 Na5 18.Qb1 Rc4 19.Ne5 b6 20.Nxd7 Kxd7 21.Qb5+
Kd8 22.Bb8 Rc3 23.Bxa7 Nc4 24.Bxb6+ Nxb6 25.Qxb6+ Kd7 26.Re1 Bd6 27.Qb5+ 
Ke7 28.dxe6 fxe6 29.Qf5 e5 30.dxe5 Bxa3 31.Qg5+ 1-0

See also#

• LittleBlitzer

Forum Posts#

2003 …#

• Returning PV from hash table by Nathan Thom, CCC, January 15, 2003 » Principal Variation
• killers and history by Nathan Thom, CCC, January 22, 2003 » Killer Heuristic, History Heuristic
• Threading issue under Polyglot by Nathan Thom, Winboard Forum, September 18, 2006 » Thread, PolyGlot
• LittleThought v1.01 released by Nathan Thom, CCC, Jul 28, 2007
• LittleThought 1.01 : 2157 by Patrick Buchmann, CCC, July 31, 2007
• LittleThought 1.02 : 2240 by Patrick Buchmann, CCC, November 08, 2007
• LittleThought 1.03 : 2229 by Patrick Buchmann, CCC, January 05, 2008
• LittleThought 1.04 : 2344 by Patrick Buchmann, CCC, November 08, 2009
• Little Thought 1.04 64-bit 2-CPU by Gabor Szots, CCC, December 18, 2009
• YBWC details by Nathan Thom, CCC, December 31, 2009 » YBWC

2010 …#

• LittleThought v1.05 released by Nathan Thom, CCC, April 20, 2010
• LittleThought 1.05 : 2403 by Patrick Buchmann, CCC, April 21, 2010
• LittleThought 1.052 64-bit Gauntlets (CCRL 40/40) by Aser Huerga, CCC, May 07, 2010
• Nice attack from LittleThought 1.052 by Graham Banks, CCC, July 17, 2013

External Links#

• LittleThought Chess Software
• LittleThought Chess Software - Change History

LittleBlitzer Chess Software

• LittleThought 1.052 64-bit in CCRL 40/40

References#

1. ↑ Little thought No. 2 detail by Qiangli Liang, from Little thought No. 2, Qiangli Liang (2005) detail | Flickr - Fotosharing! by Marjolein Benard, Wikimedia Commons
2. ↑ Returning PV from hash table by Nathan Thom, CCC, January 15, 2003
3. ↑ Kimien Software - LittleThought Chess Software - Change History
4. ↑ LittleThought Chess Software

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