Rocinante
[ Gustave Doré - Don Quixote and Sancho Panza [1] Rocinante,
an UCI compliant, experimental open source chess engine by Antonio Torrecillas, written in C++ and licensed under the GNU General Public License. Rocinante was developed as test bed for best-first search algorithms, notably PB* by Hans Berliner and Chris McConnell [2], and was first released in August 2009 [3]. Rocinante 2.0, released in May 2012, was a rewrite changing the board representation from bitboards to mailbox, and further added a greedy Monte-Carlo Tree Search without random playouts, dubbed MCαβ, as additional search algorithm [4]. Both, MCαβ and PB* Rocinante may be configured to apply a shallow alpha-beta search as a replacement for the static evaluation [5]. Rocinante source can be compiled to run under various platforms and operating systems such as Windows, Linux and Android.
See also
Forum Posts
- engine Rocinante is available by Antonio Torrecillas, CCC, August 12, 2009
- Rocinante, why ? by Antonio Torrecillas, CCC, November 20, 2011
- Rocinante 2.0 Release by Antonio Torrecillas, CCC, May 30, 2012
- Whish list for Rocinante by Antonio Torrecillas, CCC, November 21, 2012
External Links
Chess Engine
- Barajando Trebejos (Download Rocinante and Simplex)
- Index of /chess/engines/Jim Ablett/ROCINANTE by Jim Ablett, hosted by Kirill Kryukov
Index of /chess/engines/Jim Ablett/+++ LINUX ENGINES ++/32 BIT/rocinante Index of /chess/engines/Jim Ablett/+++ LINUX ENGINES ++/64 BIT/rocinante
Misc
- Rocinante from Wikipedia
- Rocinante (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
- If - Don Quixote’s Masquerade, 1975, YouTube Video
References
- ↑ Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, in an 1868 edition of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote with illustrations by Gustave Doré, Gustave Doré’s Exquisite Engravings of Cervantes’ Don Quixote | Open Culture, December 10, 2013, Wikimedia Commons
- ↑ Hans Berliner, Chris McConnell (1995). B* Probability Based Search. Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science research report
- ↑ engine Rocinante is available by Antonio Torrecillas, CCC, August 12, 2009
- ↑ MCTS without random playout? by Antonio Torrecillas, CCC, January 01, 2012
- ↑ Rocinante 2.0 Release by Antonio Torrecillas, CCC, May 30, 2012
- ↑ Rocinante from Wikipedia