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Brutus, (Brutus Chess) a Chess Engine Communication Protocol compatible open source chess engine by Stephan Vermeire and Maurizio Platino, since version 8 also UCI compliant. Brutus participated at the CPT 2008 and the CPT 2010, the over the board Chess Programmers Tournaments organized by Richard Pijl.

=Features=

Board Representation

 * Bitboards
 * Magic Bitboards

Search

 * SMP Search
 * Iterative Deepening
 * Alpha-Beta
 * Principal Variation Search
 * Transposition Table
 * Killer Heuristic
 * Null Move Pruning
 * Futility Pruning
 * Late Move Pruning
 * Check Extensions
 * Recapture Extensions
 * Quiescence Search

Evaluation

 * Material
 * Lazy Evaluation
 * Evaluation Hash Table
 * Pawn Hash Table
 * Pawn Structure
 * King Safety
 * King Tropism
 * Development
 * Mobility
 * Rook on Open File
 * Rook on Seventh
 * Knight Outposts

Misc

 * CTG Bookfiles
 * Nalimov Tablebases
 * Pondering

=Namesake=
 * Brutus, the FPGA program by Chrilly Donninger

=Forum Posts=
 * Brutus v8.01 available at new website by Stephan Vermeire, Winboard Forum, November 14, 2009
 * Chess program with Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)? by Stephan Vermeire, CCC, January 07, 2010
 * Re: Chess program with Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)? by Stephan Vermeire, CCC, January 18, 2010


 * Brutus v8.5 released by Stephan Vermeire, Winboard Forum, January 25, 2010

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * Brutus' Homepage
 * Brutus at CCRL 40/40

Misc

 * Brutus (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
 * Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger from Wikipedia
 * Et tu, Brute? from Wikipedia


 * Brutus of Troy from Wikipedia
 * List of Arthurian characters from Wikipedia
 * Brutus cluster from Wikipedia of ETH Zurich

=References= Up one Level