Jonathan Rosenthal, a Swiss chess FIDE Master [1], former U14 master of Switzerland, and computer scientist affiliated with ETH Zurich. He made first chess programming experience in writing a chess engine dubbed The Machine, which played at HGM's Online Engine Blitz Tourney in January 2015 [2]. In the meantime, he graduated at ETH with his Bachelor of Science thesis on deep lerning in Go [3], which covers aspects of computer chess versus computer Go, along with search and evaluation topics such as alpha-beta, Monte-Carlo Tree Search, and deep neural networks as used in Matthew Lai's thesis chess engine Giraffe, and DeepMind's AlphaGo. Jonathan Rosenthal's second chess programming approach started in 2016 as a group project in a university course on parallel computing along with Jonas Kuratli and Jonathan Maurer. Influenced by his machine learning experience in the domain of Go, after removing the parallel portion of the code, the project evolved to an UCI compliant open source chess engine called Winter, released on January 08, 2018 [4].
Jonathan Rosenthal [5]

Selected Publications

• Jonathan Rosenthal (2016). Deep Learning for Go. B.Sc. thesis, ETH Zurich

Forum Posts

2015

• Re: Weak engine by Jonathan Rosenthal, CCC, January 28, 2015
• Value of a Feature or Heuristic by Jonathan Rosenthal, CCC, February 15, 2015
• I think my engines tuning might be off... by Jonathan Rosenthal, CCC, February 17, 2015
• Knight Evaluation by Jonathan Rosenthal, CCC, February 24, 2015
• Questions in Respect to Code Release by Jonathan Rosenthal, CCC, March 05, 2015

2016 ...

• Long Time No Read by Jonathan Rosenthal, CCC, July 07, 2016
• Bayesian Evaluation Functions by Jonathan Rosenthal, CCC, February 15, 2017 » Evaluation
• Ridiculous QSearch Depth by Jonathan Rosenthal, CCC, March 03, 2017 » Depth, Quiescence Search
• Winter Released by Jonathan Rosenthal, CCC, January 08, 2018

External Links

Chess

• Rosenthal, Jonathan FIDE Chess Profile
• The chess games of Jonathan Rosenthal from chessgames.com
• Winterthur Chess Week 2008 -- Home page
• SG Zürich - Teamcup » Martin Fierz

Programming

• rosenthj · GitHub
  GitHub - rosenthj/Winter: UCI Chess Engine

References

1. ^ Rosenthal, Jonathan FIDE Chess Profile
2. ^ Re: On-line engine blitz tourney January by Harm Geert Muller, CCC, January 24, 2015
3. ^ Jonathan Rosenthal (2016). Deep Learning for Go. B.Sc. thesis, ETH Zurich
4. ^ Winter Released by Jonathan Rosenthal, CCC, January 08, 2018
5. ^ Carlsen macht den Hamilton - Kultur: Diverses - Tages-Anzeiger, November 28, 2016 (German) » ticker by Jonathan Rosenthal on WCC Game 12: Carlsen–Karjakin, ½–½

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