Toga II
Toga II is a derivative of the Fruit chess engine. It enhances
on
Fruit by offering greater chess knowledge and a better search
algorithm.
It is an UCI-only chess engine, and is reliant on a
chess interface such as xboard or knights to provide an attractive
frontend.
Toga II is more advanced that Fruit, with a stronger and more
aggressive playing style.
It has a chess strength of over 2800 ELO, making it a very
strong chess engine.
Toga uses the Scorpio endgame bitbases upto 5 pieces.
Features include:
- Aggressive playing style
- Classical Negascout (PVS) algorithm with Iterative
deepening to
traverse the game tree
- Uses the null-move heuristic - a technique used to
enhance
the speed of the alpha-beta pruning algorithm
- Proficient history pruning, futility prunuing
- Lazy evaluation
- MultiPV mode
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