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[[FILE:jeffrollason.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=http://www.aifactory.co.uk/AIF_Us.htm| Jeff Rollason <ref>[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/AIF_Us.htm AI Factory - Founders and Contributing Engineers]</ref> ]]
'''Jeff Rollason''',<br/>
a British computer scientist and games programmer, author of the chess program [[Treebeard]] <ref>[[Jeff Rollason]], [[Didzis Cirulis]] ('''2005'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2005_02_treebeard_chess.htm Treebeard - A new way to do Chess]''. [[AI Factory]], Summer 2005</ref>, the earlier chess programs [[Merlin (GB)|Merlin]] and [[Rasputin]], and the [[Shogi]] program [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotest_Shogi Shotest]. Jeff is CEO and Founder of the [[AI Factory]] <ref>[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/AIF_Index.htm AI Factory]</ref>. Treebeard and Shotest are AI Factory products.
=Photos=
[[FILE:Maastricht2001Shogi.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px]]
[[Jeff Rollason]] and [[Yoichiro Kajihara]] in [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=223 Shotest 5.6] vs. [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=217 Tacos] at the [[6th Computer Olympiad#Shogi|6th Computer Olympiad 2001]] <ref>[[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2001'''). ''Shotest wins Shogi tournament''. [[ICGA Journal#24_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3]], pp. 187</ref>
[[FILE:shotest-spear.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px|link=http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2006_01_shogichampionship_2006.htm]]
[[Jeff Rollason]] and [[Reijer Grimbergen]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisarazu,_Chiba Kisarazu], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan Japan], May 2008 <ref>[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2006_01_shogichampionship_2006.htm World Computer Shogi Championship 2006 - AI Factory newsletter article Spring 2006]</ref>
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf ICGA Reference Database] (pdf)</ref>
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2000'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-45579-5_19 SUPER-SOMA - Solving Tactical Exchanges in Shogi without Tree Searching]''. [[CG 2000]], [http://www.aifactory.co.uk/downloads/SUPER-SOMA.doc Word preprint]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2001'''). ''Shotest wins Shogi tournament''. [[ICGA Journal#24_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3]] » [[6th Computer Olympiad#Shogi|6th Computer Olympiad]]
* [[Reijer Grimbergen]], [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2001'''). ''Using castle and assault maps for guiding opening and middle game play in Shogi''. [[Conferences#GPW|6th Game Programming Workshop]], [http://www.teu.ac.jp/gamelab/RESEARCH/gpw2001.pdf pdf]
* [[Hiroyuki Iida]], [[Makoto Sakuta]], [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2002'''). ''Computer Shogi''. Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 134, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier Elsevier], [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.130.2727 CiteSeerX]
* [[Reijer Grimbergen]], [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2002'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-40031-8_12 Board Maps and Hill-Climbing for Opening and Middle Game Play in Shogi]''. [[CG 2002]]
=AI Factory Articles=
<ref>[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/articles.htm Article Listing - AI Factory newsletter]</ref>
==2005 ...==
* [[Jeff Rollason]], [[Dan Orme]] ('''2005'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2005_01_nonmultithreading_AI.htm Writing cpu intensive AI without multi-threading]''. [[AI Factory]], Spring 2005 » [[Thread]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]], [[Didzis Cirulis]] ('''2005'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2005_02_treebeard_chess.htm Treebeard - A new way to do Chess]''. [[AI Factory]], Summer 2005 » [[Treebeard]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2005'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2005_03_hill-climbing.htm Evaluation by Hill-climbing: Getting the right move by solving micro-problems]''. [[AI Factory]], Autumn 2005 » [[Evaluation]], [[Automated Tuning]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2005'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2005_03_plugin_minimax.htm Off-the-shelf AI : Plug-in Minimax]''. [[AI Factory]], Autumn 2005
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2006'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2006_01_fuzzy_books.htm Fuzzy books - Approximate opening knowledge]''. [[AI Factory]], Spring 2006 » [[Opening Book]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2006'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2006_03_quiescence_alts.htm Looking for Alternatives to Quiescence Search]''. [[AI Factory]], Autumn 2006 » [[Quiescence Search]], [[SOMA]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2006'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2005_04_stronger-by-learning.htm Playing Stronger by learning]''. [[AI Factory]], Winter 2006 » [[Learning]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2006'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2005_04_plausibility_analysis.htm Driving search with Plausibility analysis: Looking at the right moves]''. [[AI Factory]], Winter 2006 » [[Move Ordering]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2007'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2007_01_neg_plausibility.htm Negative Plausibility]''. [[AI Factory]], Spring 2007 » [[Relative History Heuristic]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2007'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2007_03_creating_book.htm Creating Book Knowledge]''. [[AI Factory]], Autumn 2007 » [[Opening Book]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2007'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2007_04_stat_minefields.htm Statistical Minefields with Version Testing]''. [[AI Factory]], Winter 2007 » [[Engine Testing]], [[Match Statistics]]
==2010 ...==
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2011'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2011_02_mcts_static.htm Mixing MCTS with Conventional Static Evaluation: Experiments and shortcuts en-route to full UCT]''. [[AI Factory]], Winter 2011 » [[Monte-Carlo Tree Search]], [[UCT]], [[Evaluation]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2012'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2012_01_tuning_spades.htm Tuning Spades]''. [[AI Factory]], Summer 2012 » [[UCT]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2012'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2012_01_evaluation_options.htm Evaluation options - Overview of methods]''. [[AI Factory]], Summer 2012 » [[Evaluation]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2012'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2012_02_compression_plausibility.htm Pushing compression limits using Plausibility analysis]''. [[AI Factory]], Winter 2012
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2013'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2013_01_reduce_burden.htm Reducing the burden of knowledge: Simulation-based methods in imperfect information games]''. [[AI Factory]], Summer 2013 » [[Monte-Carlo Tree Search]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2013'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2013_01_champ_dev.htm Lessons from the Road - Championship level AI development]''. [[AI Factory]], Summer 2013
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2013'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2013_02_unknown_mcts.htm Searching the Unknown with MCTS]''. [[AI Factory]], Winter 2013 » [[Monte-Carlo Tree Search]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2013'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2013_02_folding_revolution.htm A Folding Revolution]''. [[AI Factory]], Winter 2013
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2014'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2014_01_rating_developers.htm A Rating System for Developers]''. [[AI Factory]], Summer 2014
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2014'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2014_01_interest_minimax.htm Interest Search - Another way to do Minimax]''. [[AI Factory]], Summer 2014 » [[Search]], [[Minimax]]
==2015 ...==
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2015'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2014_02_bidding_euchre.htm Bidding Systems with Euchre]''. [[AI Factory]], February 2015
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2015'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2014_02_completely_random.htm When Completely Random is Just not Random Enough]''. [[AI Factory]], February 2015
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2015'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2015_01_dev_fog.htm Developing in Fog]''. [[AI Factory]], October 2015
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2015'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2015_01_keep_tightrope.htm Keeping on the Tightrope]''. [[AI Factory]], October 2015
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2015'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2015_02_mixing_immiscible.htm Mixing the Immiscible - MCTS and evaluation]''. [[AI Factory]], October 2015 » [[Monte-Carlo Tree Search]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2015'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2015_02_heroes_gothic.htm Under-sung heroes - Gothic 3]''. [[AI Factory]], December 2015
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2016'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2016_01_rating_sidekick.htm The Rating Sidekick]''. [[AI Factory]], October 2016
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2017'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2016_02_human_random.htm Human Randomness]''. [[AI Factory]], March 2017
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2017'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2017_01_testing_realities.htm Unwelcome Testing Realities]''. [[AI Factory]], August 2017
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2017'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2017_01_muscle_testing.htm Adding New Muscle to Our AI Testing]''. [[AI Factory]], August 2017
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2018'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2017_02_tools_follow.htm Get Tools right… (The Rest Will Follow!)]''. [[AI Factory]], January 2018
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotest_Shogi Shotest Shogi from Wikipedia]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=216 Jeff Rollason's ICGA Tournaments]
=References=
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[[FILE:jeffrollason.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=http://www.aifactory.co.uk/AIF_Us.htm| Jeff Rollason <ref>[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/AIF_Us.htm AI Factory - Founders and Contributing Engineers]</ref> ]]
'''Jeff Rollason''',<br/>
a British computer scientist and games programmer, author of the chess program [[Treebeard]] <ref>[[Jeff Rollason]], [[Didzis Cirulis]] ('''2005'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2005_02_treebeard_chess.htm Treebeard - A new way to do Chess]''. [[AI Factory]], Summer 2005</ref>, the earlier chess programs [[Merlin (GB)|Merlin]] and [[Rasputin]], and the [[Shogi]] program [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotest_Shogi Shotest]. Jeff is CEO and Founder of the [[AI Factory]] <ref>[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/AIF_Index.htm AI Factory]</ref>. Treebeard and Shotest are AI Factory products.
=Photos=
[[FILE:Maastricht2001Shogi.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px]]
[[Jeff Rollason]] and [[Yoichiro Kajihara]] in [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=223 Shotest 5.6] vs. [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=217 Tacos] at the [[6th Computer Olympiad#Shogi|6th Computer Olympiad 2001]] <ref>[[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2001'''). ''Shotest wins Shogi tournament''. [[ICGA Journal#24_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3]], pp. 187</ref>
[[FILE:shotest-spear.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px|link=http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2006_01_shogichampionship_2006.htm]]
[[Jeff Rollason]] and [[Reijer Grimbergen]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisarazu,_Chiba Kisarazu], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan Japan], May 2008 <ref>[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2006_01_shogichampionship_2006.htm World Computer Shogi Championship 2006 - AI Factory newsletter article Spring 2006]</ref>
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf ICGA Reference Database] (pdf)</ref>
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2000'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-45579-5_19 SUPER-SOMA - Solving Tactical Exchanges in Shogi without Tree Searching]''. [[CG 2000]], [http://www.aifactory.co.uk/downloads/SUPER-SOMA.doc Word preprint]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2001'''). ''Shotest wins Shogi tournament''. [[ICGA Journal#24_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3]] » [[6th Computer Olympiad#Shogi|6th Computer Olympiad]]
* [[Reijer Grimbergen]], [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2001'''). ''Using castle and assault maps for guiding opening and middle game play in Shogi''. [[Conferences#GPW|6th Game Programming Workshop]], [http://www.teu.ac.jp/gamelab/RESEARCH/gpw2001.pdf pdf]
* [[Hiroyuki Iida]], [[Makoto Sakuta]], [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2002'''). ''Computer Shogi''. Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 134, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier Elsevier], [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.130.2727 CiteSeerX]
* [[Reijer Grimbergen]], [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2002'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-40031-8_12 Board Maps and Hill-Climbing for Opening and Middle Game Play in Shogi]''. [[CG 2002]]
=AI Factory Articles=
<ref>[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/articles.htm Article Listing - AI Factory newsletter]</ref>
==2005 ...==
* [[Jeff Rollason]], [[Dan Orme]] ('''2005'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2005_01_nonmultithreading_AI.htm Writing cpu intensive AI without multi-threading]''. [[AI Factory]], Spring 2005 » [[Thread]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]], [[Didzis Cirulis]] ('''2005'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2005_02_treebeard_chess.htm Treebeard - A new way to do Chess]''. [[AI Factory]], Summer 2005 » [[Treebeard]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2005'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2005_03_hill-climbing.htm Evaluation by Hill-climbing: Getting the right move by solving micro-problems]''. [[AI Factory]], Autumn 2005 » [[Evaluation]], [[Automated Tuning]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2005'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2005_03_plugin_minimax.htm Off-the-shelf AI : Plug-in Minimax]''. [[AI Factory]], Autumn 2005
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2006'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2006_01_fuzzy_books.htm Fuzzy books - Approximate opening knowledge]''. [[AI Factory]], Spring 2006 » [[Opening Book]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2006'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2006_03_quiescence_alts.htm Looking for Alternatives to Quiescence Search]''. [[AI Factory]], Autumn 2006 » [[Quiescence Search]], [[SOMA]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2006'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2005_04_stronger-by-learning.htm Playing Stronger by learning]''. [[AI Factory]], Winter 2006 » [[Learning]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2006'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2005_04_plausibility_analysis.htm Driving search with Plausibility analysis: Looking at the right moves]''. [[AI Factory]], Winter 2006 » [[Move Ordering]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2007'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2007_01_neg_plausibility.htm Negative Plausibility]''. [[AI Factory]], Spring 2007 » [[Relative History Heuristic]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2007'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2007_03_creating_book.htm Creating Book Knowledge]''. [[AI Factory]], Autumn 2007 » [[Opening Book]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2007'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2007_04_stat_minefields.htm Statistical Minefields with Version Testing]''. [[AI Factory]], Winter 2007 » [[Engine Testing]], [[Match Statistics]]
==2010 ...==
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2011'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2011_02_mcts_static.htm Mixing MCTS with Conventional Static Evaluation: Experiments and shortcuts en-route to full UCT]''. [[AI Factory]], Winter 2011 » [[Monte-Carlo Tree Search]], [[UCT]], [[Evaluation]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2012'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2012_01_tuning_spades.htm Tuning Spades]''. [[AI Factory]], Summer 2012 » [[UCT]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2012'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2012_01_evaluation_options.htm Evaluation options - Overview of methods]''. [[AI Factory]], Summer 2012 » [[Evaluation]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2012'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2012_02_compression_plausibility.htm Pushing compression limits using Plausibility analysis]''. [[AI Factory]], Winter 2012
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2013'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2013_01_reduce_burden.htm Reducing the burden of knowledge: Simulation-based methods in imperfect information games]''. [[AI Factory]], Summer 2013 » [[Monte-Carlo Tree Search]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2013'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2013_01_champ_dev.htm Lessons from the Road - Championship level AI development]''. [[AI Factory]], Summer 2013
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2013'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2013_02_unknown_mcts.htm Searching the Unknown with MCTS]''. [[AI Factory]], Winter 2013 » [[Monte-Carlo Tree Search]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2013'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2013_02_folding_revolution.htm A Folding Revolution]''. [[AI Factory]], Winter 2013
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2014'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2014_01_rating_developers.htm A Rating System for Developers]''. [[AI Factory]], Summer 2014
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2014'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2014_01_interest_minimax.htm Interest Search - Another way to do Minimax]''. [[AI Factory]], Summer 2014 » [[Search]], [[Minimax]]
==2015 ...==
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2015'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2014_02_bidding_euchre.htm Bidding Systems with Euchre]''. [[AI Factory]], February 2015
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2015'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2014_02_completely_random.htm When Completely Random is Just not Random Enough]''. [[AI Factory]], February 2015
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2015'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2015_01_dev_fog.htm Developing in Fog]''. [[AI Factory]], October 2015
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2015'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2015_01_keep_tightrope.htm Keeping on the Tightrope]''. [[AI Factory]], October 2015
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2015'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2015_02_mixing_immiscible.htm Mixing the Immiscible - MCTS and evaluation]''. [[AI Factory]], October 2015 » [[Monte-Carlo Tree Search]]
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2015'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2015_02_heroes_gothic.htm Under-sung heroes - Gothic 3]''. [[AI Factory]], December 2015
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2016'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2016_01_rating_sidekick.htm The Rating Sidekick]''. [[AI Factory]], October 2016
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2017'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2016_02_human_random.htm Human Randomness]''. [[AI Factory]], March 2017
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2017'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2017_01_testing_realities.htm Unwelcome Testing Realities]''. [[AI Factory]], August 2017
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2017'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2017_01_muscle_testing.htm Adding New Muscle to Our AI Testing]''. [[AI Factory]], August 2017
* [[Jeff Rollason]] ('''2018'''). ''[http://www.aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2017_02_tools_follow.htm Get Tools right… (The Rest Will Follow!)]''. [[AI Factory]], January 2018
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotest_Shogi Shotest Shogi from Wikipedia]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=216 Jeff Rollason's ICGA Tournaments]
=References=
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