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[[toc]] **[[Home]] * [[Engines]] * Phoenix (Rahul)** **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= <references /> =What links here?= [[include page="Phoenix (Rahul)" component="backlinks" limit="40" ]] **[[Engines|Up one level]]**