Awesome - peregrineshahin/ChessProgrammingWiki GitHub Wiki
title: Awesome
[ awesome Ambigram [1] Awesome,
a chess program by FIDE Master and former Australian Postal champion Bill Jordan, first released in April 2001. Awesome stared as MS-DOS program with an own GUI and later evolved to an WinBoard compliant chess engine to run under Windows. Awesome played the NC3 2003, NC3 2004, NC3 2005 and NC3 2006 Australasian National Computer Chess Championships.
Description
from the Awesome site by Bill Jordan [2]
On and off over the years I have experimented with my chess playing program (Awesome). It is written in [Borland C++](Cpp "Cpp") and was written entirely from scratch with many original approaches.
Awesome examines only a few [moves](Moves "Moves") compared with most chess engines, but sees quite deeply, thanks to good [move ordering](Move_Ordering "Move Ordering") and other factors. In a one minute [game](Chess_Game "Chess Game"), it is sometimes able to store every position examined in a game, in the [hash table](Transposition_Table "Transposition Table"). It some ways it emulates the way a human player thinks. One of my aims is to make the [search tree](Search_Tree "Search Tree") as small as possible (without losing any effectiveness).
See also
Forum Posts
- Awesome 1.72 by Bill Jordan with Arena-GUI (WB) by Norbert Raimund Leisner, CCC, September 28, 2008
External Links
Chess Engine
- Awesome Chess Program, Chess Tuition (2016) (Wayback Machine)
- Awesome Chess Program (2013) (Wayback Machine)
- Chess Dos Programs(2-November-2002) by Bill Jordan (Wayback Machine)
Misc
- awesome - Wiktionary
- awesome (window manager) from Wikipedia
- The Axis of Awesome - 4 Four Chord Song, 2009 Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Footage courtesy of Network Ten Australia, YouTube Video
References
- ↑ Ambigram awesome, 180° rotational symmetry, by Basile Morin, June 08, 2013, Wikimedia Commons
- ↑ Awesome Chess Program (Wayback Machine)