Rahul A. R., an Indian computer scientist at IBM Research Bangalore. He holds a masters degree in CS from International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, Bangalore on the topic of genetic algorithms applied to a Self Learning Chess Engine [1], where he gives a brief overview of the history and the basics of chess programming, and introduces neural networks and deep learning. The thesis chess engine dubbed Phoenix is based on CuckooChess by Peter Österlund. However, after investigations in early 2016, Peter Österlund found not only the allegedly 19 Elo improved Phoenix played all games with White, but using the published piece-square tables in CuckooChess was indeed about 400 elo weaker than the original, assuming Hanlon's razor applied [2]. Rahul A. R. interests in computer chess also manifests in a kind of Java "port" of Stockfish, where he docked pipes into Stockfish’s IO and routed everything into a Java class [3].
Rahul A. R. [4]

Publications

• Rahul A. R. (2014). Phoenix : A Self Learning Chess Engine. for the Award of M. Tech in Information Technology, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, Bangalore, advisor G. Srinivasaraghavan, pdf ^[6]
• Rahul A. R., G. Srinivasaraghavan (2016). Phoenix: A Self-Optimizing Chess Engine. arXiv:1603.09051

External Links

• Rahul's blog
  Reinforcement Learning Based Chess by Rahul A. R., December 25, 2013
  Stockfish Port for Java by Rahul A. R., February 2, 2014
• rahular (Rahul A R) · GitHub
• rahular/chess-misc · GitHub
• rahular/phoenix · GitHub

References

1. ^ Rahul A. R. (2014). Phoenix : A Self Learning Chess Engine. for the Award of M. Tech in Information Technology, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, Bangalore, advisor Gopalakrishnan Srinivasaraghavan, pdf
2. ^ Re: PHOENIX=CuckooChess with learning function in Falcon style by Peter Österlund, CCC, March 20, 2016
3. ^ Stockfish Port for Java by Rahul A. R., February 2, 2014
4. ^ rahular (Rahul A R) · GitHub
5. ^ phoenix/docs at master · rahular/phoenix · GitHub
6. ^ Re: PHOENIX=CuckooChess with learning function in Falcon style by Peter Österlund, CCC, March 20, 2016

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