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Aldebaran, a WinBoard compliant chess program by Mauro Scarpa, written in C , first released in April 2001. Aldebaran's aim was testing some automated tuning of the evaluation, and learning, and otherwise uses the common iterative deepening, quiescence search, and move ordering with PV and history heuristic. Aldebaran played the CIPS 2001 and CIPS 2002 Italian Computer Chess Championships.

=Selected Games= CIPS 2002, round 2, Golem - Aldebaran [Event "CIPS 2002"] [Site "Pontedera"] [Date "2002.06.01"] [Round "2"] [White "Golem 0.4"] [Black "Aldebaran 0.7.0"] [Result "0-1"]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.d4 e5 5.Qe2 Nc6 6.dxe5 Bb4 7.Bd2 Qxe5 8.Qxe5+ Nxe5 9.a3 Ba5 10.O-O-O Ne7 11.Nb5 Bb6 12.Bc3 f6 13.Be2 a6 14.Nd4 Nd5 15.Be1 Nf4 16.g3 Nxe2+ 17.Ndxe2 Bd7 18.h4 O-O-O 19.Nc3 Bc6 20.Rh3 Ng4 21.Rxd8+ Rxd8 22.h5 Nxf2 23.Bxf2 Bxf2 24.Nge2 Bf3 25.Nf4 Re8 26.Nd3 Be3+ 27.Kb1 Kd7 28.Rh4 c5 29.Na4 Kd6 30.Rh2 c4 31.Nb4 Re5 32.Rh4 a5 33.Na2 b5 34.N4c3 Bg5 35.Rd4+ Kc5 36.Rd1 Bxd1 37.Nxd1 Re1 38.b4+ cxb3 0-1

=Forum Posts=
 * New Program Released: Aldebaran 0.4.0 by Gianluigi Masciulli, Winboard Forum, April 26, 2001
 * Alderaban is the nerve of steel... by P. Muzac, Winboard Forum, April 27, 2001
 * Aldebaran 0.5.1 Winboard Engine released! by Mauro Scarpa, CCC, May 03, 2001
 * Aldebaran 0.5.3 is out by Mauro Scarpa, Winboard Forum, May 16, 2001

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * Aldebaran « G 6
 * Downloads from RWBC by Günther Simon
 * Aldebaran 0.7.0 in KCEC
 * Aldebaran 0.7.0 in CCRL 40/2

Misc

 * Aldebaran from Wikipedia
 * Aldebaran in astrology from Wikipedia
 * Aldebaran in fiction from Wikipedia


 * Aldebaran (disambiguation) from Wikipedia

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