Ghost is an xboard compatible chess engine.
Search algorithm:
- MTD(f) search.
- Multicore support:
- Internally, it uses work-stealing provided by the Threading Building Blocks library.
- Currently, there is still a known scalability bug in my implementation, so the speedup is not optimal..
- Singular Extensions (SE):
- This is the most important algorithmical addition in comparison with Ghost 2. It was a clear improvement to the search.
- All in all, the search is fairly minimal. It is still work in progress and hopefully we will see some improvements in the near future.
- Cross-platform software – runs under Linux and Windows.
This is free and open source software.
Website: www.ghostchess.de
Support:
Developer: Philipp Claßen
License: 2-clause BSD License
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Hi Steve. Ghost is cross-platform.
Cheers Torin, article updated.