Prédateur

an UCI compatible chess engine by Julien Marcel with focus on programming and playing delight rather than ultimative playing strength. Prédateur is written in Pascal using the [|Lazarus IDE] along with its [|Free Pascal] compiler. Executables are available for Windows, Mac OS and the Amiga compatible [|MorphOS]. Prédateur is build around an alpha-beta framework with various pruning-, reduction-, and extension techniques such as null move pruning, late move reductions and pruning, mate distance pruning, futility- and extended futility pruning, check-, singular reply- and threat extensions. It's evaluation is still very basic, recently recognizing passers and backward pawns. Prédateur 2.2, released in early 2012, is likely the latest Pascal version, as the C++ version is getting mature and closer to delivery. || toc =See also=
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=Forum Posts=
 * [|Predateur 0.1.1 : 1498] by Patrick Buchmann, CCC, May 19, 2008
 * [|Prédateur 0.1.3b2] by Julien Marcel, CCC, May 19, 2008
 * [|Prédateur 2.0 Released (+400 Elo?) - Merry Christmas to all!] by Julien Marcel, CCC, December 23, 2010
 * [|Sargon III (10mn/move) vs Prédateur (5mn/move)] by Julien Marcel, CCC, October 08, 2011 » Sargon
 * [|Prédateur 2.2 Released] by Julien Marcel, CCC, January 04, 2012
 * [|Prédateur 2.2.1 "Bugfix" released (now with PPC)] by Julien Marcel, CCC, February 08, 2012

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * [|Prédateur blog]
 * [|Predateur] in CCRL 40/40

Misc

 * [|Prédateur - Wikipédia] (French)
 * [|Predation from Wikipedia]
 * [|Predator (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
 * [|predate from Wiktionary]
 * [|Predator (créature) - Wikipédia] (French)
 * [|Predator (alien) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Predator (franchise) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Predator (film) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Alien vs. Predator (film) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Predators (film) from Wikipedia]

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