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Galjoen

Galjoen,
an open source chess program by Werner Taelemans, written in C++11 and distributed under the GNU General Public License, first released in February 2015 . Galjoen comes with an own GUI build on gtkmm3, but can also ran as pure engine using UCI. Galjoen 0.35, released in March 2017 is able to play Chess960 .

Features

Move Generation

• Magic Bitboards

Search

• Iterative Deepening
• Principal Variation Search
• Transposition Table
• Null Move Pruning
• Late Move Reductions
• Futility Pruning
• Countermove Heuristic
• History Heuristic
• Killer Heuristic

Evaluation

• Material
• Material Tables
• Pawn Hash Table
• Mobility
• Piece-Square Tables

Misc

• PolyGlot Opening Book
• Own KQKR Tablebase
• Chess960 (0.35)

Forum Posts

2015

• new gui, new engine by Werner Taelemans, CCC, February 05, 2015
• Galjoen version 0.28 released by Werner Taelemans, CCC, May 07, 2015
• Galjoen version 0.29 available by Werner Taelemans, CCC, June 02, 2015
• Galjoen_v0.31 by Werner Taelemans, CCC, November 08, 2015

2016 ...

• Galjoen v0.32 released by Werner Taelemans, CCC, February 26, 2016
• Galjoen v0.33 released by Werner Taelemans, CCC, November 13, 2016
• Galjoen 0.35 by Werner Taelemans, CCC, March 04, 2017
• Galjoen 0.36 by Werner Taelemans, CCC, June 06, 2017
• Galjoen 0.37 by Werner Taelemans, CCC, December 03, 2017
• Galjoen 0.38 by Werner Taelemans, CCC, March 18, 2018
• Galjoen 0.39 released by Werner Taelemans, CCC, August 15, 2018
• Galjoen 0.40 released by Werner Taelemans, CCC, August 27, 2019

External Links

Chess Program

• Chessprogram Galjoen
• Galjoen at CCRL 40/4

Misc

• Galjoen from Wikipedia
• Galleon from Wikipedia

Galjoen (schip) Wikipedia.nl (Dutch)

• Figurehead from Wikipedia

Galionsfigur Wikipedia.de (German)

• Galleon - Child's Play, YouTube Video

References

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