Rodin

a WinBoard compliant chess engine written by Fermin Serrano in C using [|Code::Blocks] with [|MinGW]. First released in August 2008, it uses Pradu Kannan's Magic Bitboard move generator. || toc =Features=
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 * [[image:Rodin-cropped.jpg link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rodin-cropped.png"]] ||~ || **Rodin**,
 * Auguste Rodin ||~ ||^ ||
 * Magic Bitboards
 * Alpha-beta search, IID and PVS
 * Transposition Table
 * Null Move Pruning
 * Extensions and reductions
 * MVV/LVA move ordering, combined with a (slow) SEE move ordering
 * History- and killer heuristic for move ordering
 * Evaluation considers mobility, king safety, pawn structure, piece placement and more ...
 * Pawn Hash Table
 * Tapered eval

=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
 * [|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 - Rodin chess engine & other tools]
 * [|Rodin chess engine & other tools]
 * [|Rodin] in CCRL 40/40

Rodin

 * [|Auguste Rodin from Wikipedia]
 * [|Auguste Rodin Biography, Style and Artworks]
 * [|Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History] | [|The Metropolitan Museum of Art]
 * [|Home | Rodin Museum Paris]
 * [|Rodin Museum Philadelphia]
 * [|Rodin Collection] at Stanford University
 * [|The Gates of Hell from Wikipedia]
 * [|The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin]

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