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DESCRIPTION



Pedone is a Winboard chess engine. 

It has developed with particular care in code and data structures optimization.

It has a very little chess knowledge but it can analyse millions position per

second with a search depth of 8-9 plies.

His playing strenght is about 2100 ELO.

It's a console program and it needs a graphical interface like XBoard/Winboard

to work.







THE PACKAGE



The package include 3 executables with different hardware and software 

requirement:



- Pedone_linux64   - Version for 64 bit linux OS.

- Pedone_win32.exe - Version for 32 bit windows OS (XP/Vista/7/8).

- Pedone_win64.exe - Version for 64 bit windows OS (Vista/7/8).




TECHNICAL DETAILS



- Board rappresentation QuadBitBoard

- Magic BitBoard

- AlphaBeta search 

- Quiescence search

- Transposition Table

- Iterative deepening

- Internal iterative deepening

- Simple evaluation function with piece tables and bonus for the bishop pair

  and the king safety







For what every you need you can contact me at the following email address:



0xfab10@gmail.com

