Hannibal 1

The Story
Hannibal is developed by Sam Hamilton and Edsel Apostol. It has shared the same genes as Twisted Logic at its infancy and has mutated into a different and stronger entity when genetically combined with the LearningLemming genes.

The Inner Workings
Hannibal is a UCI chess engine that uses alpha beta as the main search algorithm with various computer chess specific heuristics. It uses a bitboard representation. It supports the Polyglot book format.

The Playing Style
Hannibal is a strategic player and relies on its very selective search, good endgame knowledge and an understanding of material imbalances. Hannibal's time management is optimized for the Fischer time controls.

The Team
Developers
Sam Hamilton is the Chief Technical Officer for a small research and development company where he works on predictive and course of action generation algorithms along with a number of related technologies. He is also author of the LearningLemming chess engine.

Edsel Apostol is a professional game programmer, software developer and college instructor. He used to play chess competitively but didn't find enough time to pursue it much further than that. He is also the author of the Twisted Logic chess engine.

Book and Testing
Audy Arandela is a student and chess enthusiast that works with the Hannibal opening book and do some testing as well.

The Future
Hannibal is still a work in progress and the authors plan to implement more things like SMP, positional and book learning, etc.

Link:
UCI engine:
http://www.mediafire.com/?oic22l7kdggwc11

and Book
http://www.mediafire.com/?kz8dbsej26tbnmb

Enjoy!!