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Brutus, (Brutus Chess)
a Chess Engine Communication Protocol compatible open source chess engine by Stephan Vermeire and Maurizio Platino, since version 8 also UCI compliant. Brutus participated at the CPT 2008 and the CPT 2010, the over the board Chess Programmers Tournaments organized by Richard Pijl.

Features

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Board Representation

• Bitboards
• Magic Bitboards

Search

• SMP Search
• Iterative Deepening
• Alpha-Beta
• Principal Variation Search
• Transposition Table
• Killer Heuristic
• Null Move Pruning
• Futility Pruning
• Late Move Pruning
• Check Extensions
• Recapture Extensions
• Quiescence Search

Evaluation

• Material
• Lazy Evaluation
• Evaluation Hash Table
• Pawn Hash Table
• Pawn Structure
• King Safety
• King Tropism
• Development
• Mobility
• Rook on Open File
• Rook on Seventh
• Knight Outposts

Misc

• CTG Bookfiles
• Nalimov Tablebases
• Pondering

Namesake

• Brutus, the FPGA program by Chrilly Donninger

Forum Posts

• Brutus v8.01 available at new website by Stephan Vermeire, Winboard Forum, November 14, 2009
• Chess program with Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)? by Stephan Vermeire, CCC, January 07, 2010

Re: Chess program with Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)? by Stephan Vermeire, CCC, January 18, 2010

• Brutus v8.5 released by Stephan Vermeire, Winboard Forum, January 25, 2010

External Links

Chess Engine

• Brutus' Homepage
• Brutus at CCRL 40/15

Misc

• Brutus (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
• Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger from Wikipedia

Et tu, Brute? from Wikipedia

• Brutus of Troy from Wikipedia
• List of Arthurian characters from Wikipedia
• Brutus cluster from Wikipedia of ETH Zurich
• Brutus - Horde II, debut album Burst (2017), YouTube Video

Watch on YouTube

References