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Monarch, (Monarch Chess)
an UCI compatible, free chess engine by Steve Maughan, initially written in Delphi and re-written in C ¹. Monarch's board is internally represented as an array (Version 1.0 used bitboards and a pre-generated move table), performs PVS with checks searched at the first ply of the quiescence, in conjunction with SEE, killer and history heuristic, null move pruning with R = 3, ETC and IID, and the evaluation based on piece square tables ² .

See also

• Maverick

Forum Posts

• New version of Monarch UCI engine by Steve Maughan, CCC, February 07, 2002
• Monarch on a fast Athlon XP2000+ or 2.2 GHz P4? by Steve Maughan, CCC, February 19, 2002
• New UCI 2 version of Monarch by Steve Maughan, CCC, April 12, 2004
• New UCI 2 version of Monarch by Steve Maughan, CCC, April 18, 2004
• Re: A new Monarch version!?Soon!?Thanx by Steve Maughan, CCC, Jaly 27, 2005

External Links

Chess Engine

• Monarch Chess Home Page
• Monarch UCI Chess Engine | Steve Maughan
• Monarch 1.7 in CCRL 40/40

Misc

• Monarch (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
• Monarch from Wikipedia

References