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**Phoenix**,
an [[UCI]] compliant [[Java]] chess engine and masters thesis program by [[Rahul A. R.]], which is basically a modified [[CuckooChess]] by [[Peter Österlund]]. Ten [[Piece-Square Tables|piece-square tables]], for all six  [[Pieces#PieceTypeCoding|piece types]] of the [[Opening|opening]] phase, plus four piece types (no rook and queen) of the [[Endgame|endgame]], that is a vector of 640 values is interpreted as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome|chromosome]] to be trained by a [[Genetic Programming#GeneticAlgorithm|genetic algorithm]] approach. After 1000 games  <ref>[[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=46572|A word for casual testers]] by [[Don Dailey]], [[CCC]], December 25, 2012</ref>, the modified engine Phoenix apparently outperformed its parent CuckooChess with a rating of 2546 (an increase of 19 points) <ref> [[http://rahular.com/phoenix/|Phoenix: A Self-Learning Chess Engine]] - 4.3: Results</ref>. After investigations by the original CuckooChess author, he found Phoenix played all games with White! Further, by using the published piece-square tables, Peter Österlund found the modified version around 400 elo weaker than the original <ref>[[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55476&start=4|Re: PHOENIX=CuckooChess with learning function in Falcon style]] by [[Peter Österlund]], [[CCC]], March 20, 2016</ref>.

=See also=
* [[Various Classifications#Bird|Bird]]
* [[CuckooChess]] 
* [[Various Classifications#Demonology|Demonology]]
* [[Various Classifications#Mythology|Mythology]]
* [[Texel's Tuning Method]] 

=Namesake=
* [[Phoenix]] 
* [[Phoenix Chess Systems]]

=Publications=
<ref>[[https://github.com/rahular/phoenix/tree/master/docs|phoenix/docs at master · rahular/phoenix · GitHub]]</ref>
* [[Rahul A. R.]] (**2014**). //Phoenix : A Self Learning Chess Engine//. for the Award of M. Tech in Information Technology, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Institute_of_Information_Technology,_Bangalore|International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore|Bangalore]], advisor [[Gopalakrishnan Srinivasaraghavan|G. Srinivasaraghavan]], [[https://github.com/rahular/phoenix/blob/master/docs/ThesisReport.pdf|pdf]] <ref>[[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55476&start=4|Re: PHOENIX=CuckooChess with learning function in Falcon style]] by [[Peter Österlund]], [[CCC]], March 20, 2016</ref>
* [[Rahul A. R.]], [[Gopalakrishnan Srinivasaraghavan|G. Srinivasaraghavan]] (**2016**). //Phoenix: A Self-Optimizing Chess Engine//. [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.09051|arXiv:1603.09051]]

=Forum Posts=
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55476|PHOENIX=CuckooChess with learning function in Falcon style !]] by [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=881|Ruxy Sylwyka]], [[CCC]], February 26, 2015
> [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55476&start=4|Re: PHOENIX=CuckooChess with learning function in Falcon style]] by [[Peter Österlund]], [[CCC]], March 20, 2016

=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [[http://rahular.com/phoenix/|Phoenix: A Self-Learning Chess Engine]]
* [[https://github.com/rahular/phoenix|rahular/phoenix · GitHub]]
==Misc== 
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_%28mythology%29|Phoenix (mythology) from Wikipedia]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenex|Phoenix (demonology) from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://www.phoenixcs.nl/|Welcome to Phoenix Chess Systems]] by [[Ruud Martin]]

=References= 
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