Prédateur

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Prédateur, an UCI compatible chess engine by Julien Marcel with focus on programming and playing delight rather than ultimative playing strength. Prédateur is written in Pascal using the Lazarus IDE along with its Free Pascal compiler. Executables are available for Windows, Mac OS and the Amiga compatible MorphOS. Prédateur is build around an alpha-beta framework with various pruning-, reduction-, and extension techniques such as null move pruning, late move reductions and pruning, mate distance pruning, futility- and extended futility pruning, check-, singular reply- and threat extensions. It's evaluation is still very basic, recently recognizing passers and backward pawns. Prédateur 2.2, released in early 2012, is likely the latest Pascal version, as the C++ version is getting mature and closer to delivery.

=Forum Posts=
 * Predateur 0.1.1 : 1498 by Patrick Buchmann, CCC, May 19, 2008
 * Prédateur 0.1.3b2 by Julien Marcel, CCC, May 19, 2008
 * Prédateur 2.0 Released (+400 Elo?) - Merry Christmas to all! by Julien Marcel, CCC, December 23, 2010
 * Sargon III (10mn/move) vs Prédateur (5mn/move) by Julien Marcel, CCC, October 08, 2011 » Sargon
 * Prédateur 2.2 Released by Julien Marcel, CCC, January 04, 2012
 * Prédateur 2.2.1 "Bugfix" released (now with PPC) by Julien Marcel, CCC, February 08, 2012

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * Prédateur blog
 * Predateur in CCRL 40/40

Misc

 * Prédateur - Wikipédia (French)
 * Predation from Wikipedia
 * Predator (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
 * predate from Wiktionary
 * Predator (créature) - Wikipédia (French)
 * Predator (alien) from Wikipedia
 * Predator (franchise) from Wikipedia
 * Predator (film) from Wikipedia
 * Alien vs. Predator (film) from Wikipedia
 * Predators (film) from Wikipedia

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