Nemorino

an UCI compliant, free open source chess engine by Christian Günther, also supporting the Chess Engine Communication Protocol, written in C++ and first released in September 2016 under the GPLv3 license. Nemorino's board representation and move structure are taken from Stockfish. Nemorino supports Syzygy Bases based on Basil Falcinelli's Fathom API, applies a very lazy parallel search, and is able to play Chess960. || toc =Etymology= Nemorino is named after the a character of [|Gaetano Donizetti's] [|comic opera][|L'elisir d'amore], premiered on May 12, 1832 at the [|Teatro alla Canobbiana] in [|Milan]. Nemorino, a poor peasant, in love with [|Adina], asks [|quack doctor] [|Dulcamara] for Isolde's [|love potion], who sells him a bottle of cheap [|Bordeaux wine] instead ...
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 * [[image:320px-NemorinoLelisirDamore.jpg link="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NemorinoLelisirDamore.jpg"]] ||~ || **Nemorino**,
 * Nemorino enjoys the alleged effect of the love potion ||~ ||^ ||

=Features=

Board Representation

 * Bitboards
 * Magic Bitboards
 * Copy/Make

Search

 * Iterative Deepening with Aspiration Windows
 * PVS / Alpha-Beta
 * Transposition Table
 * Zobrist Hashing
 * Lazy SMP
 * Selectivity
 * Mate Distance Pruning
 * Null Move Pruning
 * Late Move Reductions
 * Check Extensions
 * Recapture Extensions
 * Futility Pruning
 * Quiescence Search
 * Delta Pruning
 * Static Exchange Evaluation
 * Move Ordering
 * Hash Move
 * PV-Move
 * Internal Iterative Deepening
 * Killer Heuristic
 * History Heuristic
 * Followup History Heuristic

Evaluation

 * Tapered Eval
 * Material
 * Mobility
 * King Safety
 * Pawn Structure
 * Endgame Knowledge

Misc

 * Chess960
 * Pondering
 * Syzygy Bases

=See also=
 * Fiction
 * Nemo
 * Peasant
 * Tristram

=Forum Posts=
 * [|Nemorino - new engine] by Christian Günther, CCC, September 23, 2016
 * [|Nemorino 2.0] by Christian Günther, CCC, January 16, 2017
 * [|Nemorino 2.0a is available ...] by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, March 15, 2017
 * [|Nemorino 3] by Christian Günther, CCC, June 18, 2017
 * [|Re: TCEC 10] by Christian Günther, CCC, October 15, 2017 » TCEC Season 10
 * [|Nemorino 4] by Christian Günther, CCC, December 21, 2017

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * [|Christian Günther / Nemorino — Bitbucket]
 * [|Nemorino 1.02 64-bit] in CCRL 40/40

Misc
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 * [|L'elisir d'amore from Wikipedia]
 * [|Una furtiva lagrima from Wikipedia]
 * The Searchers - [|Love potion number 9] (1963), [|YouTube] Video

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