Woodpusher

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a chess program developed in 1989 by John Hamlen as part of a university project looking into null-move search techniques. Woodpusher played various World Computer-, World Microcomputer Chess Championships and Computer Olympiads. Woodpusher 1997 played the WCCC 2004 in Ramat-Gan and the WCCC 2011 in Tilburg as an experiment to play with a seven respectively fourteen years old program.

Photos#

WCCC 2011, Woodpusher 1997 by John Hamlen vs. Pandix by Gyula Horváth (left) [2]

Namesakes#

• WoodPusher a chess application written in C# by Jamin P. Gray

See also#

• Knowledge | Search versus Evaluation
• Null Move Pruning
• Patzer
• Woodpecker

Publications#

• John Hamlen (2004). Seven Year Itch. ICGA Journal, Vol. 27, No. 4 [3] » WCCC 2004
• John Hamlen (2012). Game Over for the Woodpusher Experiment: 7+7=0. ICGA Journal, Vol. 35, No. 1 » WCCC 2011

Forum Posts#

• I think that woodpusher is the surprise of the tournament by Uri Blass, CCC, July 13, 2004 » WCCC 2004
• Re: Search or Evaluation? by Mark Uniacke, Hiarcs Forum, October 14, 2007 » Search versus Evaluation, 1st Computer Olympiad

External Links#

Chess Engine#

• Woodpusher’s ICGA Tournaments

Misc#

• woodpusher - Wiktionary
• Glossary of chess - woodpusher, Wikipedia

References#

1. ↑ Woodpusher’s ICGA Tournaments
2. ↑ Photos by Gerd Isenberg
3. ↑ Seven Year Itch (disambiguation) from Wikipedia

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