Jeff Rollason, a British computer scientist and games programmer, author of the chess program Treebeard [1], the earlier chess programs Merlin and Rasputin, and the Shogi program Shotest. Jeff is CEO and Founder of the AI Factory [2]. Treebeard and Shotest are AI Factory products.
Jeff Rollason [3]

Photos

Jeff Rollason and Yoichiro Kajihara in Shotest 5.6 vs. Tacos at the 6th Computer Olympiad 2001 [4]
Jeff Rollason and Reijer Grimbergen, Kisarazu, Japan, May 2008 [5]

Selected Publications

• Jeff Rollason (2000). SUPER-SOMA - Solving Tactical Exchanges in Shogi without Tree Searching. CG 2000, Word preprint
• Jeff Rollason (2001). Shotest wins Shogi tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3 » 6th Computer Olympiad
• Reijer Grimbergen, Jeff Rollason (2001). Using castle and assault maps for guiding opening and middle game play in Shogi. 6th Game Programming Workshop, pdf
• Hiroyuki Iida, Makoto Sakuta, Jeff Rollason (2002). Computer Shogi. Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 134, Elsevier, CiteSeerX
• Reijer Grimbergen, Jeff Rollason (2002). Board Maps and Hill-Climbing for Opening and Middle Game Play in Shogi. CG 2002

AI Factory Articles

2005 ...

• Jeff Rollason, Dan Orme (2005). Writing cpu intensive AI without multi-threading. AI Factory, Spring 2005 » Thread
• Jeff Rollason, Didzis Cirulis (2005). Treebeard - A new way to do Chess. AI Factory, Summer 2005 » Treebeard
• Jeff Rollason (2005). Evaluation by Hill-climbing: Getting the right move by solving micro-problems. AI Factory, Autumn 2005 » Evaluation, Automated Tuning
• Jeff Rollason (2005). Off-the-shelf AI : Plug-in Minimax. AI Factory, Autumn 2005
• Jeff Rollason (2006). Fuzzy books - Approximate opening knowledge. AI Factory, Spring 2006 » Opening Book
• Jeff Rollason (2006). Looking for Alternatives to Quiescence Search. AI Factory, Autumn 2006 » Quiescence Search, SOMA
• Jeff Rollason (2006). Playing Stronger by learning. AI Factory, Winter 2006 » Learning
• Jeff Rollason (2006). Driving search with Plausibility analysis: Looking at the right moves. AI Factory, Winter 2006 » Move Ordering
• Jeff Rollason (2007). Negative Plausibility. AI Factory, Spring 2007 » Relative History Heuristic
• Jeff Rollason (2007). Creating Book Knowledge. AI Factory, Autumn 2007 » Opening Book
• Jeff Rollason (2007). Statistical Minefields with Version Testing. AI Factory, Winter 2007 » Engine Testing, Match Statistics

2010 ...

• Jeff Rollason (2011). 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). Tuning Spades. AI Factory, Summer 2012 » UCT
• Jeff Rollason (2012). Evaluation options - Overview of methods. AI Factory, Summer 2012 » Evaluation
• Jeff Rollason (2012). Pushing compression limits using Plausibility analysis. AI Factory, Winter 2012
• Jeff Rollason (2013). Reducing the burden of knowledge: Simulation-based methods in imperfect information games. AI Factory, Summer 2013 » Monte-Carlo Tree Search
• Jeff Rollason (2013). Lessons from the Road - Championship level AI development. AI Factory, Summer 2013
• Jeff Rollason (2013). Searching the Unknown with MCTS. AI Factory, Winter 2013 » Monte-Carlo Tree Search
• Jeff Rollason (2013). A Folding Revolution. AI Factory, Winter 2013
• Jeff Rollason (2014). A Rating System for Developers. AI Factory, Summer 2014
• Jeff Rollason (2014). Interest Search - Another way to do Minimax. AI Factory, Summer 2014 » Search, Minimax

2015 ...

• Jeff Rollason (2015). Bidding Systems with Euchre. AI Factory, February 2015
• Jeff Rollason (2015). When Completely Random is Just not Random Enough. AI Factory, February 2015
• Jeff Rollason (2015). Developing in Fog. AI Factory, October 2015
• Jeff Rollason (2015). Keeping on the Tightrope. AI Factory, October 2015
• Jeff Rollason (2015). Mixing the Immiscible - MCTS and evaluation. AI Factory, October 2015 » Monte-Carlo Tree Search
• Jeff Rollason (2015). Under-sung heroes - Gothic 3. AI Factory, December 2015

External Links

• Shotest Shogi from Wikipedia
• Jeff Rollason's ICGA Tournaments

References

1. ^ Jeff Rollason, Didzis Cirulis (2005). Treebeard - A new way to do Chess. AI Factory, Summer 2005
2. ^ AI Factory
3. ^ AI Factory - Founders and Contributing Engineers
4. ^ Jeff Rollason (2001). Shotest wins Shogi tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 187
5. ^ World Computer Shogi Championship 2006 - AI Factory newsletter article Spring 2006
6. ^ ICGA Reference Database (pdf)
7. ^ Article Listing - AI Factory newsletter

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