Napoleon, an UCI compliant open source chess engine by Marco Pampaloni, written in C++, first released in September 2013 [1]. Napoleon had its over the board tournament debut in Turin 2014, where it quite successfully participated at the IGT 2014 becoming fourth with 4 out of 7.
Napoleon playing Chess with Bertrand [2]

Features

Move Generation

• Magic Bitboards
• Pseudo-legal Move Generation
• 16 Bit Move Encoding

Search

• Alpha-Beta
• Principal Variation Search
• Iterative Deepening
• Aspiration Windows ^[4]

Transposition Table

• Zobrist Hashing
• Four Bucket System
• Depth-preferred Replacement Scheme

Move Ordering

• Principal Variation Extraction from TT
• Killer Heuristic
• History Heuristic
• Internal Iterative Deepening
• MVV-LVA

Selectivity

• AEL-Pruning
  Adaptive Null Move Pruning
  Extended Futility Pruning
  Limited Razoring
• Adaptive Late Move Reductions
• Quiescence Search
  Delta Pruning

Evaluation

• Material
• Piece-Square Tables
• Mobility
• Pawn Structure
• Tapered Eval ^[5]
  and more ...

See also

• Given Name
• Nobility

Forum Posts

• Aspiration windows by Marco Pampaloni, CCC, May 14, 2013
• Re: Napoleon PP by crybot - current edition by Marco Pampaloni, CCC, January 21, 2014
• Tapered evaluation by Marco Pampaloni, CCC, March 18, 2014
• Napoleon 1.4.0 by Marco Pampaloni, CCC, March 22, 2014
• Napoleon 1.5.0 64-bit Gauntlet for CCRL 40/40 by Graham Banks, CCC, July 25, 2014
• Parameter tuning with multi objective optimization by Marco Pampaloni, CCC, May 07, 2017 » Automated Tuning
• search efficiency by Marco Pampaloni, CCC, June 23, 2017 » Search

External Links

Chess Engine

• crybot/Napoleon · GitHub
• crybot/Napoleon-old · GitHub
• Napoleon « G 6
• Napoleon 1.5.0 64-bit in CCRL 40/4
• Napoleon 1.5.0 64-bit in CCRL 40/40

Misc

• Napoleon from Wikipedia
• Napoleon (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
• Napoleone from Wikipedia
• Napoleon of India from Wikipedia
• Napoleon.org

Chess

• Napoleon Bonaparte and Chess by Edward Winter
• Napoleon Bonaparte and Chess from Sarah's Chess Journal
• The chess games of Napoleon Bonaparte from chessgames.com
  The chess games of Madame de Remusat from chessgames.com ^[6]
• Napoleon Opening from Wikipedia
• Napoleon Gambit in the Scotch Game from Wikipedia

Games

• Napoleon (card game) from Wikipedia
• Napoleon (board game) from Wikipedia
• Napoleon (GBA game) from Wikipedia

References

1. ^ Napoleon « G 6
2. ^ Napoleon playing Chess with Bertrand at Longwood, Saint Helena, Drawing from Inside Longwood - Napoleon's captivity in 1818, Chronology to complement the books Albert Benhamou (2010). L'autre Sainte-Hélène. (French) and Albert Benhamou (2012). Inside Longwood - Barry O'Meara's Clandestine Letters. © Albert Benhamou Publishing
3. ^ Napoleon/README.md at master · crybot/Napoleon · GitHub
4. ^ Aspiration windows by Marco Pampaloni, CCC, May 14, 2013
5. ^ Tapered evaluation by Marco Pampaloni, CCC, March 18, 2014
6. ^ Madame de Rémusat from Wikipedia

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