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[[FILE:Planter des platanes pour attirer le Phoenix.JPG|border|right|thumb| Phoenix Plant Sculpture <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_sculpture Plant sculpture] ''Planting plane trees to attract the phoenix'' presented by the city of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing Beijing] and which won the Grand Prize of Honor from the International Jury of [https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/07/monumental-plant-sculptures-at-the-2013-mosaicultures-internationales-de-montreal/ Mosaicultures 2013]. The Mosaicultures 2013 was presented at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Botanical_Garden Montreal Botanical Garden] during the summer 2013, [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Planter_des_platanes_pour_attirer_le_Phoenix.JPG Photo] by Daniel Bordeleau, July 11, 2013, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons]</ref> ]]

'''Phoenix''',<br/>
an [[UCI]] compliant [[Java]] chess engine and masters thesis program by [[Rahul Aralikatte]], which is basically a modified [[CuckooChess]] by [[Peter Österlund]].
Ten [[Piece-Square Tables|piece-square tables]], for all six [[Pieces#PieceTypeCoding|piece types]] of the [[Opening|opening]] phase, plus four piece types (no rook and queen) of the [[Endgame|endgame]], that is a vector of 640 values is interpreted as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome chromosome] to be trained by a [[Genetic Programming#GeneticAlgorithm|genetic algorithm]] approach.
After 1000 games <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=46572 A word for casual testers] by [[Don Dailey]], [[CCC]], December 25, 2012</ref>, the modified engine Phoenix apparently outperformed its parent CuckooChess with a rating of 2546 (an increase of 19 points) <ref> [http://rahular.com/phoenix/ Phoenix: A Self-Learning Chess Engine] - 4.3: Results</ref>.
After investigations by the original CuckooChess author, he found Phoenix played all games with White! Further, by using the published piece-square tables, Peter Österlund found the modified version around 400 elo weaker than the original, assuming [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor Hanlon's razor] applied <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55476&start=4 Re: PHOENIX=CuckooChess with learning function in Falcon style] by [[Peter Österlund]], [[CCC]], March 20, 2016</ref>.

=See also=
* [[CuckooChess]]
* [[Texel's Tuning Method]]

=Namesake=
* [[Phoenix]]
* [[Phoenix Chess Systems]]

=Publications=
* [[Rahul Aralikatte]] ('''2014'''). ''Phoenix : A Self Learning Chess Engine''. for the Award of M. Tech in Information Technology, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Institute_of_Information_Technology,_Bangalore International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore Bangalore], advisor [[Gopalakrishnan Srinivasaraghavan|G. Srinivasaraghavan]]
* [[Rahul Aralikatte]], [[Gopalakrishnan Srinivasaraghavan|G. Srinivasaraghavan]] ('''2016'''). ''Phoenix: A Self-Optimizing Chess Engine''. [http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.09051 arXiv:1603.09051]

=Forum Posts=
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55476 PHOENIX=CuckooChess with learning function in Falcon style !] by Ruxy Sylwyka, [[CCC]], February 26, 2015
: [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55476&start=4 Re: PHOENIX=CuckooChess with learning function in Falcon style] by [[Peter Österlund]], [[CCC]], March 20, 2016

=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160316235150/http://rahular.com/phoenix/ Phoenix: A Self-Learning Chess Engine] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine Wayback Machine])
* [https://github.com/rahular/phoenix rahular/phoenix · GitHub] (dead link)
* [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B5Ao6h_yMCl6ay04RjVtUDVTUG8 Engines, Phoenix Chess.rar] hosted by [[Norbert Raimund Leisner]] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Drive Google Drive])
==Misc==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_%28mythology%29 Phoenix (mythology) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenex Phoenix (demonology) from Wikipedia]
* [http://www.phoenixcs.nl/ Welcome to Phoenix Chess Systems] by [[Ruud Martin]]

=References=
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