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Dragon, a Chess Engine Communication Protocol and later UCI compliant chess engine by Bruno Lucas. Dragon played the WMCCC 1997 in Paris and most French Computer Chess Championship and French Programmers Tournaments. Dragon is Arena partner engine.

=Descriptions= by Bruno Lucas

1997 ...
from the ICGA tournament site in 1997 : Dragon is a brute force program. Dragon divides the tree search in two phases: full search and quiescence search (captures, promotions and check for the first level of quiescence). The algorithm is the PVS with iterative deepening. It uses most of the known standard heuristics : killer moves, history moves, transposition table, null move and selective deepening. Dragon can recognize draw by repetition and apply 50-move rule. It can think on the opponent's time. Dragon uses a small opening book but with a variety of lines. The evaluation function examines the pawn structure (it uses the bitboard for the pawns), the position of the pieces (King's security, central control, King tropism, outposts, ...). Dragon can read, save the game in PGN format and the position in FEN format. It can be interfaced with xboard/winboard. My future goals it's to become selective and to be able to build plan.

2003
from the Arena site in 2003 : Dragon 4.0 is based on bitboard. It has the same evaluations of Dragon 3.x. The search has been updated. I removed bad extensions, especially those ones that were greedy on nodes and time. The main differences between Dragon 4.0 and Dragon 3.x are on search extensions, sorting of moves and test evaluations. ...

=Namesake=
 * Dragon by Yuri Shpeer
 * Dragon analysis engine of Convekta's Chess Assistant

=Forum Posts=
 * Averno 0.27 and Dragon 3.11-2 is available ! by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, March 02 2000
 * UCI Dragon 4.2 by Bruno Lucas is available! by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, February 26 2002
 * Re: Dragon x3, Nightmare x2, Jester x2 ... by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, October 07, 2002
 * UCI Dragon 4.5 and Arena 0.95 release information ... by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, November 04, 2003
 * Re: UCI Dragon 4.6 and Arena 1.1 Release information ... by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, October 19, 2004
 * UCI Dragon 4.6, ranking 4 France-ch 2004, available ... by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, October 24, 2004

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * Dragon's (Chess, fr) ICGA Tournaments
 * Arena Chess GUI 3.0 - Dragon
 * Dragon 4.6 in CCRL 40/40
 * Dragon 4.6 in KCEC
 * Engine Download List from Ron Murawski's Computer-Chess Wiki

Dragon

 * Dragon from Wikipedia
 * European dragon from Wikipedia
 * Graoully from Wikipedia
 * Sicilian Defence, Dragon Variation from Wikipedia
 * Sicilian Defence, Accelerated Dragon from Wikipedia
 * Dragonchess from Wikipedia
 * Chick Corea Elektric Band - The Dragon (Light Years 1987), YouTube Video
 * Chick Corea, Frank Gambale, Eric Marienthal, Dave Weckl, John Patitucci

=References= Up one Level