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**[[Home]] * [[Engines]] * Cassandre** || [[image:Cassandra.jpg link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cassandra1.jpeg"]] ||~ || **Cassandre**, an [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]] and [[UCI]] compliant [[Open Source Engines|open source chess engine]] under the terms of the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GNU General Public License]] (GPL), written in [[Cpp|C++]] by [[Raphael Grundrich]], [[Thomas Adolph]] and [[Jean-Francois Romang]], first released in March 2003. Cassandre started as a student project at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur_University|Louis Pasteur University]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasbourg|Strasbourg]] <ref>[[http://cassandre.sourceforge.net/|Cassandre - Chess Engine]]</ref>. It is based on [[Bitboards|bitboards]], in particular [[Rotated Bitboards|Rotated bitboards]] with 256 [[Occupancy of any Line|occupancy states]] to determine [[Sliding Piece Attacks|sliding piece attacks]], [[BitScan|bitscan]] aka first- and last one by conditional 16-bit lookups, and [[Population Count|population count]] by eight byte lookups credited to [[Dann Corbit]], and uses the [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta]] algorithm <ref>[[http://cassandre.sourceforge.net/about.html|Cassandre - Chess Engine - About]]</ref>. || || Cassandra <ref>[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cassandra1.jpeg|Cassandra]] by [[Arts#EvelynDeMorgan|Evelyn De Morgan]] (1898, London). Cassandra in front of the burning city of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy|Troy]] at the peak of her insanity, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra|Cassandra from Wikipedia]]</ref> ||~ ||^ || [[toc]] =See also= * [[Gaia|Gaïa]] * [[Various Classifications#GivenName|Given Name]] * [[Various Classifications#Mythology|Mythology]] =External Links= ==Chess Engine== * [[http://cassandre.sourceforge.net/|Cassandre - Chess Engine]] * [[http://sourceforge.net/projects/cassandre/files/cassandre/|Cassandre - at SourceForge.net]] * [[http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/Cassandre.html|Cassandre]] from [[WBEC|WBEC Ridderkerk]] * [[http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404/cgi/engine_details.cgi?print=Details&eng=Cassandre%200.24|Cassandre 0.24]] in [[CCRL|CCRL 40/4]] ==Misc== * [[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandre|Cassandre - Wikipédia.fr]] (French) * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra|Cassandra from Wikipedia]] * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_%28disambiguation%29|Cassandra (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]] * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_%28metaphor%29|Cassandra (metaphor) from Wikipedia]] * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_%28given_name%29|Cassandra (given name) from Wikipedia]] =References= <references /> =What links here?= [[include page="Cassandre" component="backlinks" limit="20" ]] **[[Engines|Up one level]]**