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Auguste Rodin

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
• Profiling times by Fermin Serrano, CCC, February 06, 2009
• 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

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