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|| [[image:chrono-chess-game-in-longwood.jpg width="260" link="http://www.inside-longwood.com/inside-longwood-chronology-1818.html"]] ||~   || **Napoleon**,
an [[UCI]] compliant [[Open Source Engines|open source chess engine]] by [[Marco Pampaloni]], written in [[Cpp|C++]], first released in September 2013 <ref>[[http://www.g-sei.org/napoleon/|Napoleon]] « [[G 6]]</ref>. Napoleon had its over the board tournament debut in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turin|Turin]] 2014, where it quite successfully participated at the [[IGT 2014]] becoming fourth with 4 out of 7. ||
||[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon|Napoleon]] playing Chess with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Gatien_Bertrand|Bertrand]] <ref>[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon|Napoleon]] playing Chess with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Gatien_Bertrand|Bertrand]] at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longwood_House|Longwood]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Helena|Saint Helena]], [[http://www.lautresaintehelene.com/other-st-helena-index.html|Drawing]] from [[http://www.inside-longwood.com/inside-longwood-chronology-1818.html|Inside Longwood - Napoleon's captivity in 1818]], Chronology to complement the books Albert Benhamou (**2010**). //[[http://www.lautresaintehelene.com/other-st-helena-index.html|L'autre Sainte-Hélène]]//. (French) and Albert Benhamou (**2012**). //[[http://www.napoleon.org/en/magazine/just_published/files/481397.asp|Inside Longwood]] - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Edward_O%27Meara|Barry O'Meara's]] Clandestine Letters//. © Albert Benhamou Publishing</ref> ||~   ||^   ||
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=Features= 
<ref>[[https://github.com/crybot/Napoleon/blob/master/README.md|Napoleon/README.md at master · crybot/Napoleon · GitHub]]</ref>
==[[Move Generation]]== 
* [[Magic Bitboards]]
* [[Move Generation#PseudoLegal|Pseudo-legal Move Generation]]
* [[Encoding Moves|16 Bit Move Encoding]]
==[[Search]]== 
* [[Alpha-Beta]]
* [[Principal Variation Search]]
* [[Iterative Deepening]]
* [[Aspiration Windows]] <ref>[[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47996|Aspiration windows]] by [[Marco Pampaloni]], [[CCC]], May 14, 2013</ref>
===[[Transposition Table]]===
* [[Zobrist Hashing]]
* [[Transposition Table#Bucket|Four Bucket System]]
* [[Transposition Table#ReplacementStrategies|Depth-preferred Replacement Scheme]]
===[[Move Ordering]]===
* [[Principal Variation|Principal Variation Extraction from TT]]
* [[Killer Heuristic]]
* [[History Heuristic]]
* [[Internal Iterative Deepening]]
* [[MVV-LVA]]
===[[Selectivity]]===
* [[AEL-Pruning]]
> [[Null Move Pruning#AdaptiveNullMovePruning|Adaptive Null Move Pruning]]
> [[Futility Pruning#Extendedfutilityprunning|Extended Futility Pruning]]
> [[Razoring#LimitedRazoring|Limited Razoring]]
* [[Late Move Reductions|Adaptive Late Move Reductions]]
* [[Quiescence Search]]
> [[Delta Pruning]]
==[[Evaluation]]== 
* [[Material]]
* [[Piece-Square Tables]]
* [[Mobility]]
* [[Pawn Structure]]
* [[Tapered Eval]] <ref>[[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=51656|Tapered evaluation]] by [[Marco Pampaloni]], [[CCC]], March 18, 2014</ref>
> and more ...

=See also= 
* [[Various Classifications#GivenName|Given Name]]
* [[Various Classifications#Nobility|Nobility]]
 
=Forum Posts= 
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47996|Aspiration windows]] by [[Marco Pampaloni]], [[CCC]], May 14, 2013
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=553976&t=50972|Re: Napoleon PP by crybot - current edition]] by [[Marco Pampaloni]], [[CCC]], January 21, 2014
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=51656|Tapered evaluation]] by [[Marco Pampaloni]], [[CCC]], March 18, 2014
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=51709|Napoleon 1.4.0]] by [[Marco Pampaloni]], [[CCC]], March 22, 2014
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=53082|Napoleon 1.5.0 64-bit Gauntlet for CCRL 40/40]] by [[Graham Banks]], [[CCC]], July 25, 2014
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=63926|Parameter tuning with multi objective optimization]] by [[Marco Pampaloni]], [[CCC]], May 07, 2017 » [[Automated Tuning]]
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=64390|search efficiency]] by [[Marco Pampaloni]], [[CCC]], June 23, 2017 » [[Search]]

=External Links= 
==Chess Engine== 
* [[https://github.com/crybot/Napoleon|crybot/Napoleon · GitHub]]
* [[https://github.com/crybot/Napoleon-old|crybot/Napoleon-old · GitHub]]
* [[http://www.g-sei.org/napoleon/|Napoleon]] « [[G 6]]
* [[http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404/cgi/engine_details.cgi?print=Details&eng=Napoleon%201.5.0%2064-bit|Napoleon 1.5.0 64-bit]] in [[CCRL|CCRL 40/4]]
* [[http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/cgi/engine_details.cgi?print=Details&eng=Napoleon%201.5.0%2064-bit|Napoleon 1.5.0 64-bit]] in [[CCRL|CCRL 40/40]]
==Misc== 
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon|Napoleon from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_%28disambiguation%29|Napoleon (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleone|Napoleone from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_of_India|Napoleon of India from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://www.napoleon.org/en/home.asp|Napoleon.org]]
===Chess===
* [[http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/napoleon.html|Napoleon Bonaparte and Chess]] by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Winter_%28chess_historian%29|Edward Winter]]
* [[http://www.edochess.ca/batgirl/NapoleonChess.html|Napoleon Bonaparte and Chess]] from [[http://www.edochess.ca/batgirl/welcome.html|Sarah's Chess Journal]]
* [[http://www.chessgames.com/player/napoleon_bonaparte.html|The chess games of Napoleon Bonaparte]] from [[http://www.chessgames.com/index.html|chessgames.com]]
> [[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=77027|The chess games of Madame de Remusat]] from [[http://www.chessgames.com/index.html|chessgames.com]] <ref>[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_de_R%C3%A9musat|Madame de Rémusat from Wikipedia]]</ref>
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Opening|Napoleon Opening from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_Game#Analysis|Napoleon Gambit]] in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_Game|Scotch Game from Wikipedia]]
===Games===
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_%28card_game%29|Napoleon (card game) from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_%28game%29|Napoleon (board game) from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_%28GBA_game%29|Napoleon (GBA game) from Wikipedia]]

=References= 
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