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 [1]. Galjoen comes with an own GUI build on gtkmm3, but can also ran as pure engine using the Chess Engine Communication Protocol or UCI. Galjoen 0.35, released in March 2017 is able to play Chess960 [2].
Galjoen [3]

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)

See also

• Fish
• Ship

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

2017

• 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

2018

• Galjoen 0.38 by Werner Taelemans, CCC, March 18, 2018

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)

References

1. ^ new gui, new engine by Werner Taelemans, CCC, February 05, 2015
2. ^ Galjoen 0.35 by Werner Taelemans, CCC, March 04, 2017
3. ^ Spanish Galleon, Wikimedia Commons
4. ^ Chessprogram Galjoen

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