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[[FILE:MatadorEarly20thCentury.jpg|border|right|thumb|180px| Matador, showing traditional outfit <ref>Early 20th century [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MatadorEarly20thCentury.jpg photograph of a matador], showing traditional outfit. The photo is taken from the 1935 book [http://ian.macky.net/secretmuseum/ The Secret Museum of Mankind] with no author and no copyright notice.
It has been faithfully reproduced and released under a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_NonCommercial_license Creative Commons Noncommercial 3.0] license.
However, since this is a faithful two-dimensional reproduction of a work that is within the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain public domain], it should be within the public domain itself,
at least in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States United States]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torero Matador (Torero) from Wikipedia]</ref>
]]
'''Matador''',<br/>
a family of [[:Category:Private|private chess engines]] by [[Stefan Knappe]]. Matador played six [[IPCCC|IPCCCs]], and had its debut in [[IPCCC 2000|2000]] where it upset [[IsiChess]] in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Slav_Defense#Botvinnik_Variation_.285...dxc4.29 Semi-Slav Botvinnik Variation],
further the [[BELCT 2001]] as ''Lokalmatador'' <ref>[https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lokalmatador Lokalmatador – Wiktionary]</ref>, and the [[CCT6]] and [[CCT7]] online tournaments.
=Versions=
The first version, Matator '''I''', developed in 1996, was written in [[Basic#VB|Visual Basic 5.0]], had an own [[GUI]], used a [[10x12 Board]],
performing [[Principal Variation Search|PVS]] with [[Transposition Table|transposition table]], [[Null Move Pruning|null move pruning]], [[Quiescence Search|quiescence search]],
and some kind of [[Check Extensions|check extensions]] <ref>[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=43060 wacnew.epd & single search improvements (extensions)] by [[Stefan Knappe]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], June 19, 2003 » [[Win at Chess]]</ref>.
Matador '''II''' in 1998 was written in [[C]] and compliant with the [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]].
In 2002, Matador '''III''' was a major rewrite using [[Bitboards|bitboards]] as board representation, and supported [[UCI]], while Matador '''IV''' started to play chess in 2004
<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090810115640/http://www.stefanknappe.de/content/schach Schach | Homepage Stefan Knappe] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine Wayback Machine], August 10, 2009)</ref>.
=Screenshot=
[[FILE:Matador_IV.JPG|none|border|text-bottom|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20090810115640/http://www.stefanknappe.de/content/schach]]
Chess System Matador IV <ref>Chess System Matador IV Screenshot from [https://web.archive.org/web/20090810115640/http://www.stefanknappe.de/content/schach Schach | Homepage Stefan Knappe] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine Wayback Machine], August 10, 2009)</ref>
=Games=
[[IPCCC 2000]], round 2, [[Matador]] - [[IsiChess]]
<pre>
[Event "IPCCC 2000"]
[Site "Paderborn GER"]
[Date "2000.02.10"]
[Round "02"]
[White "Matador"]
[Black "IsiChess"]
[Result "1-0"]
1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 dxc4 6.e4 b5 7.e5 h6 8.Bh4 g5 9.Nxg5 hxg5 10.Bxg5 Nbd7
11.Qf3 Bb7 12.exf6 Qb6 13.O-O-O c5 14.d5 b4 15.Na4 Qa5 16.Qe3 O-O-O 17.dxe6 fxe6 18.b3 cxb3
19.axb3 c4 20.Bxc4 Rh5 21.f4 Bxg2 22.Rhe1 Bd5 23.Bxd5 exd5 24.f7 Qa6 25.Bxd8 Kxd8 26.Qe8+ Kc7
27.Rd2 Rh6 28.f5 Qb5 29.Qa8 Rc6+ 30.Kb1 Qb8 31.Qxb8+ Nxb8 32.Re8 Nd7 33.Rxd5 Rf6 34.Ra5 Kb7
35.Rd5 Kc7 36.Ra8 Rxf7 37.Rxa7+ Kc6 38.Rd1 Ne5 39.Rxf7 Nxf7 40.Rd4 Bd6 41.h4 Nh6 42.f6 Be5
43.Rxb4 Nf7 44.Rb6+ Kd5 45.Ra6 Bd4 46.Kc2 Ke4 47.Nc3+ 1-0
</pre>
=Forum Posts=
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=346731 Testposition of Matador-Alarm CCT6] by [[Stefan Knappe]], [[CCC]], February 03, 2004 » [[CCT6]]
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=43060 wacnew.epd & single search improvements (extensions)] by [[Stefan Knappe]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], June 19, 2003 » [[Win at Chess]]
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=43088 To Stefan Knappe] by [[Rahman Paidar]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], June 21, 2003 » [[Futility Pruning]]
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1610 Polyglot & log-file] by [[Stefan Knappe]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], February 10, 2005
=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090811205010/http://www.stefanknappe.de/category/tags/schachprogramm Schachprogramm | Homepage Stefan Knappe]
: [https://web.archive.org/web/20090810115640/http://www.stefanknappe.de/content/schach Schach | Homepage Stefan Knappe] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine Wayback Machine], August 10, 2009)
==Misc==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matador_%28disambiguation%29 Matador (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torero Matador (Torero) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matador_%28Marvel_Comics%29 Matador (Marvel Comics) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matadors_(Czech_band) The Matadors] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_All_Over_Now,_Baby_Blue It's All Over Now, Baby Blue] (1968), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da_Q7hmtReg?rel=0|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
=References=
<references />
'''[[Engines|Up one Level]]'''
[[Category:Basic]]
[[Category:Private]]
[[Category:WinBoard]]
[[Category:UCI]]
[[Category:PC]]
[[Category:x86]]
[[Category:Windows]]
[[Category:Comics]]
[[Category:Music]]
[[FILE:MatadorEarly20thCentury.jpg|border|right|thumb|180px| Matador, showing traditional outfit <ref>Early 20th century [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MatadorEarly20thCentury.jpg photograph of a matador], showing traditional outfit. The photo is taken from the 1935 book [http://ian.macky.net/secretmuseum/ The Secret Museum of Mankind] with no author and no copyright notice.
It has been faithfully reproduced and released under a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_NonCommercial_license Creative Commons Noncommercial 3.0] license.
However, since this is a faithful two-dimensional reproduction of a work that is within the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain public domain], it should be within the public domain itself,
at least in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States United States]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torero Matador (Torero) from Wikipedia]</ref>
]]
'''Matador''',<br/>
a family of [[:Category:Private|private chess engines]] by [[Stefan Knappe]]. Matador played six [[IPCCC|IPCCCs]], and had its debut in [[IPCCC 2000|2000]] where it upset [[IsiChess]] in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Slav_Defense#Botvinnik_Variation_.285...dxc4.29 Semi-Slav Botvinnik Variation],
further the [[BELCT 2001]] as ''Lokalmatador'' <ref>[https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lokalmatador Lokalmatador – Wiktionary]</ref>, and the [[CCT6]] and [[CCT7]] online tournaments.
=Versions=
The first version, Matator '''I''', developed in 1996, was written in [[Basic#VB|Visual Basic 5.0]], had an own [[GUI]], used a [[10x12 Board]],
performing [[Principal Variation Search|PVS]] with [[Transposition Table|transposition table]], [[Null Move Pruning|null move pruning]], [[Quiescence Search|quiescence search]],
and some kind of [[Check Extensions|check extensions]] <ref>[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=43060 wacnew.epd & single search improvements (extensions)] by [[Stefan Knappe]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], June 19, 2003 » [[Win at Chess]]</ref>.
Matador '''II''' in 1998 was written in [[C]] and compliant with the [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]].
In 2002, Matador '''III''' was a major rewrite using [[Bitboards|bitboards]] as board representation, and supported [[UCI]], while Matador '''IV''' started to play chess in 2004
<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090810115640/http://www.stefanknappe.de/content/schach Schach | Homepage Stefan Knappe] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine Wayback Machine], August 10, 2009)</ref>.
=Screenshot=
[[FILE:Matador_IV.JPG|none|border|text-bottom|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20090810115640/http://www.stefanknappe.de/content/schach]]
Chess System Matador IV <ref>Chess System Matador IV Screenshot from [https://web.archive.org/web/20090810115640/http://www.stefanknappe.de/content/schach Schach | Homepage Stefan Knappe] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine Wayback Machine], August 10, 2009)</ref>
=Games=
[[IPCCC 2000]], round 2, [[Matador]] - [[IsiChess]]
<pre>
[Event "IPCCC 2000"]
[Site "Paderborn GER"]
[Date "2000.02.10"]
[Round "02"]
[White "Matador"]
[Black "IsiChess"]
[Result "1-0"]
1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 dxc4 6.e4 b5 7.e5 h6 8.Bh4 g5 9.Nxg5 hxg5 10.Bxg5 Nbd7
11.Qf3 Bb7 12.exf6 Qb6 13.O-O-O c5 14.d5 b4 15.Na4 Qa5 16.Qe3 O-O-O 17.dxe6 fxe6 18.b3 cxb3
19.axb3 c4 20.Bxc4 Rh5 21.f4 Bxg2 22.Rhe1 Bd5 23.Bxd5 exd5 24.f7 Qa6 25.Bxd8 Kxd8 26.Qe8+ Kc7
27.Rd2 Rh6 28.f5 Qb5 29.Qa8 Rc6+ 30.Kb1 Qb8 31.Qxb8+ Nxb8 32.Re8 Nd7 33.Rxd5 Rf6 34.Ra5 Kb7
35.Rd5 Kc7 36.Ra8 Rxf7 37.Rxa7+ Kc6 38.Rd1 Ne5 39.Rxf7 Nxf7 40.Rd4 Bd6 41.h4 Nh6 42.f6 Be5
43.Rxb4 Nf7 44.Rb6+ Kd5 45.Ra6 Bd4 46.Kc2 Ke4 47.Nc3+ 1-0
</pre>
=Forum Posts=
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=346731 Testposition of Matador-Alarm CCT6] by [[Stefan Knappe]], [[CCC]], February 03, 2004 » [[CCT6]]
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=43060 wacnew.epd & single search improvements (extensions)] by [[Stefan Knappe]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], June 19, 2003 » [[Win at Chess]]
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=43088 To Stefan Knappe] by [[Rahman Paidar]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], June 21, 2003 » [[Futility Pruning]]
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1610 Polyglot & log-file] by [[Stefan Knappe]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], February 10, 2005
=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090811205010/http://www.stefanknappe.de/category/tags/schachprogramm Schachprogramm | Homepage Stefan Knappe]
: [https://web.archive.org/web/20090810115640/http://www.stefanknappe.de/content/schach Schach | Homepage Stefan Knappe] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine Wayback Machine], August 10, 2009)
==Misc==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matador_%28disambiguation%29 Matador (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torero Matador (Torero) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matador_%28Marvel_Comics%29 Matador (Marvel Comics) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matadors_(Czech_band) The Matadors] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_All_Over_Now,_Baby_Blue It's All Over Now, Baby Blue] (1968), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da_Q7hmtReg?rel=0|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
=References=
<references />
'''[[Engines|Up one Level]]'''
[[Category:Basic]]
[[Category:Private]]
[[Category:WinBoard]]
[[Category:UCI]]
[[Category:PC]]
[[Category:x86]]
[[Category:Windows]]
[[Category:Comics]]
[[Category:Music]]
