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Soldat, a WinBoard compliant open source chess engine by Marco Giusfredi, written in Ansi C. Soldat was first released in July 2002 as version 0.18. The most recent Soldat III 1.87 appeared on July 03, 2017. Soldat participated at the International Gsei Tournament 2017 in Rome.

=Description= Soldat represents the board as 0x88 mailbox, and applies PVS with aspiration windows within its iterative deepening framework, enhanced by a transposition table with Zobrist hashing, NMP (NMR in the late endgame), LMR, razoring, check extensions and history heuristic. The evaluation additionally piece-square tables, mobility, pawn structure, tempo and king safety in the middlegame.

=Forum Posts=
 * New WB engine from Italy! by Leo Dijksman, Winboard Forum, July 05, 2002
 * Engine list news: Updated Tao v5.3 and Soldat v0.20 by Leo Dijksman, CCC, July 28, 2002
 * Engine list news: Soldat v0.25 released! by Leo Dijksman, Winboard Forum, August 10, 2002
 * Repetition draw claiming bug by Soldat by George Lyapko, Winboard Forum, January 14, 2003
 * Soldat III 0.178 64-bit Gauntlet for CCRL 40/40 by Graham Banks, CCC, March 25, 2015

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * Soldat « G 6 (dead link as of November 2020)
 * Soldat « G 6 (Wayback Machine February 2020)
 * Soldat « G 6 (Wayback Machine September 2012 Soldat3_159c)
 * Soldat compiled by Jim Ablett, hosted by Kirill Kryukov
 * Soldat from WBEC (Wayback Machine September 2014)
 * Soldat at CCRL Blitz

Misc

 * Soldat from Wikipedia
 * Soldat - Wiktionary
 * soldat - Wiktionary
 * Soldat (rank) from Wikipedia
 * Soldat (Romania) from Wikipedia
 * Soldat – Wikipedia.de (German)
 * Soldato - Wikipedia.it (Italian)
 * Soldier from Wikipedia

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