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Julien Marcel,
a French jurist, professor of law, and avocational computer chess programmer. He made first chess programming experiences in the early 90s, when he wrote a little chess program in Basic for the Commodore Amiga 500, applying the Minimax principle none recursively. Years later, he learned about Alpha-Beta from Paul Verhelst's chess programming pages ^[1], and in summer 2007 started to work on his UCI compatible engine Prédateur, written in Pascal using the Lazarus IDE along with its Free Pascal compiler ^[2]. Julien is active poster in Computer Chess Forums and served as moderator in CCC ^[3].

Forum Posts

• Daily iPhone chess programs releases by Julien Marcel, CCC, March 08, 2011 » Chess Tiger
• An interesting book with some insights on Bob's Cray Blitz by Julien Marcel, CCC, June 23, 2011 » Cray Blitz, WCCC 1983 ^[4]
• Determining the age of TT buckets by Julien Marcel, CCC, Sepember 18, 2011 » Transposition Table
• Marvin Minsky and the look-ahead efficiency in chess by Julien Marcel, CCC, February 06, 2012 » Marvin Minsky
• ICCA Journal by Julien Marcel, CCC, February 25, 2012 » ICCA Journal
• Lazy SMP by Julien Marcel, CCC, December 27, 2012 » Lazy SMP
• How beautiful is your code? by Julien Marcel, CCC, January 15, 2013 » Programming Languages
• New Mac Compiles (+ Website) by Julien Marcel, CCC, August 26, 2013 ^[5]

External Links

• Marcel Julien from blitzchess.fr (French)
• Prédateur blog
• Mac Chess Engines Repository hosted by Julien Marcel » Macintosh

References

1. ^ Paul Verhelst's chess prgramming pages
2. ^ Marcel Julien from blitzchess.fr (French)
3. ^ Thank you! by Julien Marcel, CCC, August 08, 2012
4. ^ David E. Welsh, Boris Baczynskyj (1985). Computer Chess II. William C Brown Publications, ISBN-13: 978-0697099112
5. ^ Mac Chess Engines Repository hosted by Julien Marcel

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