Fermin Serrano

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Fermin Serrano,
a Spanish security computer consultant and computer chess programmer in his free time. As a chess player Fermin started first chess activities in the 1980s, and wrote his first private chess engine in the 90s. In 2007, Fermin Serrano started the development of his engine Rodin . He is further author of the FSTM tournament manager .

Forum Posts

2008 ...

• Test you engine by Fermin Serrano, CCC, March 10, 2008 » Engine Testing
• Two doubts by Fermin Serrano, CCC, March 10, 2008 » Encoding Moves
• Versioning by Fermin Serrano, CCC, March 11, 2008
• Problems with eval function by Fermin Serrano, CCC, March 25, 2008 » Evaluation
• Random command by Fermin Serrano, CCC, April 01, 2008
• Pieze/square tables by Fermin Serrano, CCC, May 21, 2008 » Piece-Square Tables
• Special code for black and white by Fermin Serrano, CCC, May 27, 2008
• Returning score by Fermin Serrano, CCC, June 05, 2008 » Fail-Soft
• Null move question by Fermin Serrano, Winboard Forum, June 30, 2008 » Null Move Pruning
• New Engine: Rodin v1.14 by Fermin Serrano, CCC, August 20, 2008
• Smooth evaluation by Fermin Serrano, CCC, September 29, 2008 » Evaluation
• Reducing branching factor by Fermin Serrano, CCC, October 26, 2008 » Branching Factor
• Comparing two version of the same engine by Fermin Serrano, CCC, October 26, 2008 » Match Statistics
• Evaluating attacked pieces by Fermin Serrano, CCC, November 17, 2008 » Hanging Piece
• Are everybody making this bad? by Fermin Serrano, CCC, November 26, 2008 » Repetitions
• How do you see computer chess in 100 years? by Fermin Serrano, CCC, December 05, 2008
• Debate: testing at fast time controls by Fermin Serrano, CCC, December 15, 2008 » Engine Testing
• Adaptative LMR and TT by Fermin Serrano, CCC, December 23, 2008 » Late Move Reductions, Transposition Table

2009

• Profiling times by Fermin Serrano, CCC, February 06, 2009
• Evaluation idea by Fermin Serrano, CCC, February 24, 2009 » Evaluation
• Accurate eval function by Fermin Serrano, CCC, March 18, 2009
• FSTM v1.0 (beta): New tournament manager by Fermin Serrano, CCC, June 06, 2009 » FSTM
• When there is not progress by Fermin Serrano, CCC, November 17, 2009

2010 ...

• Two kind of engines. Exploring the unexplorer side of CC by Fermin Serrano, CCC, February 16, 2010
• Novag Citrine and pocketpc by Fermin Serrano, CCC, March 01, 2010 » Novag Citrine
• How to reduce playing strenght to play against humans by Fermin Serrano, CCC, March 05, 2010  » Playing Strength
• Two ideas I have tested by Fermin Serrano, CCC, May 04, 2010
• About implementing MultiPV by Fermin Serrano, CCC, May 16, 2010 » Multi-PV
• Evaluation discontinuity by Fermin Serrano, CCC, June 01, 2010 » Evaluation Discontinuity

2011

• Repeating moves to add time by Fermin Serrano, CCC, March 31, 2011 » Repetitions, Time Management
• Testing very small changes ( <= 5 ELO points of gain) by Fermin Serrano, CCC, April 08, 2011 » Match Statistics
• About king safety by Fermin Serrano, CCC, April 15, 2011 » King Safety
• More about NPS... by Fermin Serrano, CCC, May 10, 2011 » Nodes per Second
• Winboard Tournament manager FSTM v1.0.8 release by Fermin Serrano, CCC, May 18, 2011 » FSTM
• How do you see the future of electronic chess boards? by Fermin Serrano, CCC, July 18, 2011 » Sensory Board
• Chatbot by Fermin Serrano, CCC, September 08, 2011
• About been aggresive as a point machine by Fermin Serrano, CCC, September 28, 2011

2012

• Are all test the same? by Fermin Serrano, CCC, January 17, 2012 » Match Statistics
• What is the most difficult and danger feature to tune it? by Fermin Serrano, CCC, February 02, 2012 » Automated Tuning
• make and unmake stadistics by Fermin Serrano, CCC, February 28, 2012 » Search Statistics, Make Move, Unmake Move
• A question about thread-architecture by Fermin Serrano, CCC, April 12, 2012
• TT question? by Fermin Serrano, CCC, May 19, 2012 » Transposition Table, Quiescence Search
• Memory question by Fermin Serrano, CCC, May 19, 2012 » Memory
• Is there a reasonable number of pawn hash entries? by Fermin Serrano, CCC, July 10, 2012 » Pawn Hash Table
• about error margins? by Fermin Serrano, CCC, August 01, 2012 » Match Statistics
• Draw value by Fermin Serrano, CCC, August 06, 2012 » Draw

2013

• Opening files in windows 7&8 by Fermin Serrano, CCC, April 18, 2013
• About style of modern engines by Fermin Serrano, CCC, May 13, 2013
• Is search irrelevant when computing ahead of very big trees? by Fermin Serrano, CCC, July 24, 2013 » Search, Knowledge
• Square colors by Fermin Serrano, CCC, August 06, 2013

2014

• About eval function types by Fermin Serrano, CCC, January 24, 2014
• Thoughs on eval terms by Fermin Serrano, CCC, March 31, 2014 » Evaluation
• Rodin v7.0 released by Fermin Serrano, CCC, May 12, 2014

2015 ...

• question about magic keys generation time by Fermin Serrano, CCC, March 19, 2015 » Looking for Magics
• New idea for Rook magic moves storage by Fermin Serrano, CCC, March 22, 2015 » Sliding Piece Attacks
• Ugly UCI by Fermin Serrano, CCC, November 27, 2015 » UCI

2016

• Rodin v8.0 released by Fermin Serrano, CCC, February 07, 2016
• Dynamic chess by Fermin Serrano, CCC, May 20, 2016
• UCI protocol and engine strength by Fermin Serrano, CCC, November 02, 2016 » Playing Strength
• Looking for an epd file for sanity checks... by Fermin Serrano, CCC, November 06, 2016 » Engine Testing
• Trying to catch a difficult bug by Fermin Serrano, CCC, November 08, 2016

2017

• Positional dilemma by Fermin Serrano, CCC, March 24, 2017
• WAC 100 by Fermin Serrano, CCC, March 28, 2017 » Win at Chess
• Sorting algorithms by Fermin Serrano, CCC, April 22, 2017 » Move Ordering
• Need material for a speech by Fermin Serrano, CCC, July 16, 2017

2018

• Searching a game other than chess to vary by Fermin Serrano, CCC, November 15, 2018

External Links

• Rodin chess engine & other tools | About Me
• Serrano Pozo, Fermin FIDE Chess Profile

References

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