Ferdinand Mosca

Home * People * Ferdinand Mosca

Ferdinand Mosca, a Filipino games and chess programmer and author of the chess engines Deuterium and CDrill, the latter with the aim to play like human at a rating below 2000 Elo. Further, Ferdinand Mosca wrote multiple analysing tools, as well as chess variant playing engines, such as the Spartan Chess playing Sangga , the Capablanca Chess and Gothic Chess playing Bihasa , the Shogi engine Siyam , and the mini Shogi engine Lima which played a strong UEC Cup in 2015. =Chess Game Analyzer= In Fall 2015, Ferdinand Mosca introduced his Chess Game Analyzer, a command line PGN tool, working on pgn files as input and output, with scores, variations and annotations added as pgn comments after analyzing the games with an engine. The Chess Game Analyzer is written in Python using the python-chess library to parse moves and positions of the pgn file. In December 2016, Ferdinand Mosca announced the Chess Game Analyzer GUI. =Chess Artist= Apparently the successor of the Chess Game Analyzer is Chess Artist, released in October 2016 under the GPLv3 , a Python script that can annotate chess games in pgn file with static evaluation or search score of an engine, can annotate games with Cerebellum book moves using the Brainfish engine with its Cerebellum_Light.bin book file, can annotate an epd file with acd, acs, bm, and ce opcode mnemonics and can test engines with epd test suites. =aiBloodshed= aiBloodshed is a chess game web broadcaster composed by Ferdinand Mosca, released in July 2017.

=Forum Posts=

2010 ...

 * Re: Ideas from other engines ok? by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, July 08, 2011
 * Spartan chess by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, November 09, 2011
 * Option questions on cutechess-cli by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, November 19, 2011 » Cutechess-cli
 * Bihasa v3.0 is released by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, November 19, 2011
 * Deuterium update and other engines by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, December 14, 2011
 * Clarification of uci option UCI_AnalyseMode by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, March 03, 2012 » UCI
 * New chess variants by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, March 03, 2012 » Chess Variants

2015 ...
2016 2017 2018 2019
 * Game of the Generals by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, April 17, 2015
 * STS 1-15 epd and analysis tool by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, May 20, 2015 » Strategic Test Suite
 * STS test suite and engine analysis interface by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, June 11, 2015
 * Chess Game Analyzer by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, September 27, 2015 » Chess Game Analyzer
 * Lima a mini shogi engine by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, November 10, 2015
 * Mandirigma a musketeer chess variant by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, November 19, 2015
 * Re: Static evaluation test posistions by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, November 26, 2015 » Engine Testing, Python
 * Sigla, seirawan chess variant engine by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, November 26, 2015
 * Siyam, a shogi 9x9 engine by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, November 26, 2015
 * Winboard 4.8.0b and Amazon chess variant by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, December 05, 2015 » WinBoard
 * Matibay an amazon chess variant engine by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, December 08, 2015
 * Masipag, a nightrider chess variant engine by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, December 09, 2015
 * Chess Artist by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, October 15, 2016 » Chess Artist
 * Chess Game Analyzer GUI by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, December 16, 2016 » Chess Game Analyzer
 * Bihasa 4.3.3 by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, December 27, 2016
 * CDrill 1800 by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, December 27, 2016
 * Re: Texel tuning method question by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, July 20, 2017 » Python, Texel's Tuning Method
 * aiBloodshed live broadcaster released by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, July 27, 2017 » aiBloodshed
 * Chess Tools by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, March 17, 2018
 * NUCLEUS by Ed Schroder, CCC, May 13, 2018
 * Deuterium 2018 released by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, May 27, 2018
 * Deuterium v2019.1 released by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, January 25, 2019
 * EARS (Engine Analysis Reliability Score) by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, March 09, 2019
 * Yet another game analysis method by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, March 28, 2019
 * Tragic comedy in pondering by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, April 02, 2019 » Pondering, Stalemate
 * How to measure overall similarity by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, April 02, 2019
 * Test sets results on opening, tactical, ending by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, April 06, 2019 » Test-Positions
 * Positional and Tactical by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, April 11, 2019 » Strategy, Tactics
 * Deuterium released by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, September 21, 2019
 * Siyam released by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, September 21, 2019

=External Links=
 * Deuterium Chess
 * Deuterium Homepage
 * CDrill Chess
 * fsmosca· GitHub
 * GitHub - fsmosca/chess-artist: A python script that can annotate chess games in pgn file ... » Chess Artist
 * GitHub - fsmosca/Python-Easy-Chess-GUI: A Chess GUI based from Python using PySimpleGUI and Python-Chess
 * GitHub - fsmosca/chess-tests: Chess engines test results

=References= Up one Level