Ankan Banerjee

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Ankan Banerjee, an Indian computer scientist with a BE degree from AIT, Pune, Maharashtra in 2006, and engineer at Nvidia India. His professional as well as private interests include computer graphics, high performance computing, computer games, and computer chess. He is author of a fast GPU Perft move generator based on Kogge-Stone algorithm, and the experimental chess engine Paladin. In August 2017, Ankan Banerjee computed Perft(15) - and dedicated his computation in honor to Steven Edwards. More recently, he contributed to the Leela Chess Zero project, in particular he wrote the CuDNN backend code, also shared by Deus X and Allie. =Forum Posts=

2013 ...

 * Fast perft on GPU (upto 20 Billion nps w/o hashing) by Ankan Banerjee, CCC, June 22, 2013
 * Re: A perft benchmark by Ankan Banerjee, CCC, June 26, 2013
 * Re: Wide open perft by Ankan Banerjee, CCC, August 18, 2013

2015 ...

 * Re: New engine? by Ankan Banerjee, CCC, July 11, 2016
 * yet another attempt on Perft(14) by Ankan Banerjee, CCC, August 13, 2016
 * perft(15) by Ankan Banerjee, CCC, August 25, 2017
 * First Win by Leela Chess Zero against Stockfish dev by Ankan Banerjee, CCC, June 07, 2018 » Leela Chess Zero, Stockfish
 * Re: How good is the RTX 2080 Ti for Leela? by Ankan Banerjee, CCC, September 16, 2018
 * Re: How good is the RTX 2080 Ti for Leela? by Ankan Banerjee, CCC, September 17, 2018
 * Re: How good is the RTX 2080 Ti for Leela? by Ankan Banerjee, CCC, October 27, 2018
 * Re: How good is the RTX 2080 Ti for Leela? by Ankan Banerjee, CCC, October 28, 2018
 * Re: How good is the RTX 2080 Ti for Leela? by Ankan Banerjee, CCC, November 15, 2018

=External Links=
 * Ankan Banerjee | LinkedIn
 * Ankan Banerjee - Quora
 * ankan-ban (Ankan Banerjee) · GitHub
 * ankan-ban/perft_gpu · GitHub
 * GitHub - ankan-ban/chess_cpu: Ankan's new chess engine


 * Standing on the shoulders of giants by Albert Silver, ChessBase News, September 18, 2019

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