SmarThink

SmarThink is a computer chess engine written in C++ by Russian computer programmer Sergei Markoff.^[1] The latest version, SmarThink 1.98, has been released in January 2018.^[2]

SmarThink is promoted as an engine with aggressive attacking style. SmarThink became a Russian computer chess champion in 2004 and CIS computer chess champion in 2005. It was placed 3rd in the 2008 Commonwealth championship, behind WildCat and Strelka.^[2]

This article is part of the series on
Chess programming
Board representations 0x88 Bitboards
Evaluation functions Deep neural networks (Transformers) Attention Efficiently updatable neural networks Handcrafted evaluation functions Piece-square tables Reinforcement learning Stochastic gradient descent Supervised learning Texel tuning Unsupervised learning
Graph and tree search algorithms Minimax Alpha-beta pruning Principal variation search Quiescence search Monte Carlo tree search
Chess computers Belle ChessMachine ChipTest Cray Blitz Deep Blue Deep Thought HiTech Hydra Mephisto Saitek
Chess engines AlphaZero Chess Tiger Crafty CuckooChess Deep Fritz Dragon by Komodo Chess Fairy-Max Fritz Fruit GNU Chess HIARCS Houdini Ikarus Junior KnightCap Komodo Leela Chess Zero MChess Pro Mittens MuZero Naum REBEL Rybka Shredder Sjeng SmarThink Stockfish Torch Turochamp Zappa
v t e

• Examples of games played by SmarThink