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Crafty board implementation is internally based on enthusiast can take a look at it. Crafty uses Negascout search, killer move heuristics, static exchange evaluation, quiescence search, and Pruning , Hash Table s (transposition/refutation) as well as evaluation caches, selective extensions, recursive null-move search, and many other features ( cf manual ). Crafty uses the XBoard protocol, and can also be run with the popular free chess interfaces WinBoard or Arena . Furthermore, there are special editions, CraftySE, which allow a huge number of settings. Used with Opening Book s, position learning function and important Endgame table bases they play with a human style even on low amateur levels. This is what makes Crafty so popular. In the World Computer Chess Championships 2004 Crafty won the fourth place with same amounts of points as the third place finisher, Fritz 8 . Crafty is one of the programs included in the SPEC-CPU benchmark test. It is also included as additional engine in Fritz . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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