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Rodin, a WinBoard compliant chess engine by Fermin Serrano, written in C using Code::Blocks with MinGW. First released in August 2008, it initially used Pradu Kannan's Magic Bitboard move generator. Rodin v8.0. has its own magics.

=Features=

Board Representation

 * Bitboards
 * Magic Bitboards

Search

 * Iterative Deepening
 * Alpha-Beta
 * Principal Variation Search
 * Transposition Table
 * Null Move Pruning
 * Extensions
 * Reductions
 * Move Ordering
 * IID
 * MVV/LVA
 * Static Exchange Evaluation
 * History Heuristic
 * Killer Heuristic

Evaluation

 * Tapered Eval
 * Piece-Square Tables
 * Material Imbalance Tables
 * Mobility
 * King Safety
 * Pawn Structure
 * Pawn Hash Table

Misc

 * Opening Book
 * Book Learning
 * Scorpio Bitbases

=See also=
 * Thinker

=Forum Posts=

2008 ...

 * New Engine: Rodin v1.14 by Fermin Serrano, CCC, August 20, 2008
 * Rodin v1.17 released by Fermin Serrano, CCC, December 01, 2008
 * Rodin 2.1b released by Fermin Serrano, CCC, April 01, 2009
 * Rodin v2.3a released by Fermin Serrano, CCC, August 31, 2009

2010 ...

 * Rodin v3.0 is out by Fermin Serrano, CCC, April 12, 2010
 * About king safety by Fermin Serrano, CCC, April 15, 2011 » King Safety
 * Rodin v4.0 Released by Fermin Serrano, CCC, July 11, 2011
 * Rodin v5.0 released by Fermin Serrano, CCC, September 19, 2012
 * Rodin v6.0 released by Fermin Serrano, CCC, April 25, 2013
 * Rodin v7.0 released by Fermin Serrano, CCC, May 12, 2014

2015 ...

 * Rodin v8.0 released by Fermin Serrano, CCC, February 07, 2016

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * Rodin chess engine & other tools
 * RODIN - Rodin chess engine & other tools


 * Rodin in CCRL 40/40

Rodin

 * Auguste Rodin from Wikipedia
 * Rodin Collection at Stanford University
 * The Gates of Hell from Wikipedia

=References= Up one level