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 [1].
Auguste Rodin [2]

Features

• 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 chess engine & other tools
  RODIN - 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

References

1. ^ New Engine: Rodin v1.14 by Fermin Serrano, CCC, August 20, 2008
2. ^ Auguste Rodin from Wikipedia
3. ^ Feature list based on RODIN - Rodin chess engine & other tools

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