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BremboCE, a WinBoard compliant chess engine written by Gianluca Cisana. BremboCE was initially written in C, and first released in February 2002, after Gianluca studied Tom Kerrigan's TSCP and learned how to program a chess engine. It had its not too bad tournament debut at CIPS 2002 with 3/6. The latest C-version 0.4 from August 2002 is still available for download. The engine name is based upon the river Brembo in the Province of Bergamo, situated near the author's home.

=Java= After a gap of seven years, in 2009, Gianluca continued the development porting BremboCE from C to Java, running either as standalone WinBoard engine, or as Java applet as part of a web page under control of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) - in a process separated from the web browser. BremboCE keeps a board array and uses negamax alpha-beta with quiescence considering captures and promotions. The Java engine played the 4th Chess Computer Cup 2009 with 2½/6, winning from Golem and Joker.

=Photos and Games= CCC 2009, round 4, Stefano Malloggi and Gianluca Cisana, BremboCE - Chaturanga [Event "CCC 2009"] [Site "Carugate, ITA"] [Date "2009.11.08"] [Round "4"] [White "BremboCE 0.6.2"] [Black "Chaturanga 2.4.2"] [Result "1/2-1/2"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 O-O 8.a4 b4 9.d4 d6 10.dxe5 Nxe5 11.Nbd2 Bb7 12.Nxe5 dxe5 13.Nc4 Nxe4 14.Nxe5 Qxd1 15.Rxd1 Bd6 16.Nc4 Bc5 17.Be3 Rad8 18.Rxd8 Rxd8 19.Ne5 Bxe3 20.Bxf7+ Kh8 21.fxe3 Rd2 22.Rf1 Ng3 23.hxg3 Rxg2+ 24.Kh1 Rf2+ 25.Kg1 Rg2+ 26.Kh1 Rf2+ 27.Kg1 Rg2+ 1/2-1/2

=Forum Posts=
 * New version 0.2.1 of BremboCE by Gianluca Cisana, CCC, March 14, 2002
 * Improved chess applet bremboce by Gianluca Cisana, CCC, August 20, 2009
 * Released Bremboce 0.6 Java winboard engine by Gianluca Cisana, CCC, August 21, 2009
 * Released Bremboce 0.6.2 Java winboard engine by Gianluca Cisana, CCC, October 03, 2009

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * BremboCE | Download the winboard chess engine version (Wayback Machine)
 * BremboCE | Features (Wayback Machine)
 * Index of /chess/engines/Jim Ablett/BREMBO CE by Jim Ablett, hosted by Kirill Kryukov
 * Strong Java Chess Engines Game - Browse /chess_engines_nb-src at SourceForge.net
 * Bremboce 0.6.2 in CCRL Blitz

Misc

 * Brembo (river) from Wikipedia
 * Val Brembana from Wikipedia

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