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Rotor, (ChessRotor) an UCI compliant chess engine by Jan Brouwer, written in C++, which first appeared in rating lists in April 2007 . Rotor is available as Windows and Mac OS executable, as well as Android engine under Chess for Android.

=Features=

Board Representation

 * 16x12 Mailbox
 * Incremental Updated Attack Tables

Search

 * Iterative Deepening
 * Alpha-Beta
 * Principal Variation Search
 * Transposition Table
 * Move Ordering
 * Killer Heuristic
 * History Heuristic
 * Selectivity
 * Check Extensions
 * Null Move Pruning
 * Futility Pruning
 * Late Move Reductions
 * Quiescence Search

Evaluation

 * Material
 * Mobility
 * Pawn Structure
 * Passed Pawns
 * King Safety
 * Tempo
 * Evaluaton Tuning with CLOP

=See also=
 * Enigma

=Forum Posts=

2007 ...

 * Re: Division 4: 21 Participants by Jan Brouwer, CCC, April 12, 2007
 * Amateur Litmus Test (Rotor 0.1a wins) by Graham Banks, CCC, April 30, 2007
 * Re: The Art of Evaluation (long) by Jan Brouwer, CCC, August 02, 2007
 * Rotor 0.3 : 2335 by Patrick Buchmann, CCC, July 21, 2008
 * Rotor 0.4 released by Jan Brouwer, CCC, October 08, 2008
 * Re: Side to Move Bonus---does it help? by Jan Brouwer, CCC, May 29, 2009
 * Rotor 0.5 released by Jan Brouwer, CCC, July 16, 2009

2010 ...

 * Rotor uses Rookie's attack table! by Jan Brouwer, CCC, February 26, 2010 » Rookie
 * Rotor 0.6 released by Jan Brouwer, CCC, December 20, 2010
 * Rotor on Android by Jan Brouwer, CCC, February 24, 2011 » Android
 * evaluation function complete by Jan Brouwer, CCC, April 14, 2011
 * Re: About king safety by Jan Brouwer, CCC, April 20, 2011
 * Rotor 0.7 released by Jan Brouwer, CCC, July 24, 2012
 * Rotor 0.7 castling bug by Jan Brouwer, CCC, July 31, 2012
 * Rotor 0.7a released by Jan Brouwer, CCC, August 27, 2012
 * Rotor 0.8 released by Jan Brouwer, CCC, March 14, 2013
 * Re: Are these engines dead? by Jan Brouwer, CCC, May 11, 2015

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * ChessRotor
 * Rotor in CCRL 40/15

Misc

 * Rotor from Wikipedia
 * Rotor (electric) from Wikipedia
 * Helicopter rotor) from Wikipedia
 * Rotor machine from Wikipedia
 * Enigma rotor details
 * Rotor (mathematics) from Wikipedia
 * Rigid rotor from Wikipedia
 * Stonephace - Rotor, March 2009, Tolmen Centre, Constantine, Cornwall, YouTube Video

=References= Up one Level