Treebeard
[ Treebeard and Hobbits [1] Treebeard,
a multi-platform, commercial chess program developed by Jeff Rollason and Didzis Cirulis. Treebeard, an AI Factory product, applies a complex swapping off material analyzer (SOMA) of the whole board, also considering pins and ties to defend against captures, forks and even mate threats, similar as described in Rollason’s SUPER-SOMA approach for Shogi [2], which guides a probability-based tree search. Treebeard comes with an optional 3D Board as version of Chess for the PC, and is currently the chess engine used by Microsoft for their MSN Chess [3] [4]. Further, Treebeard is incorporated in AI Factory’s Chess Free for Android [5].
Publications
- Jeff Rollason (2000). SUPER-SOMA - Solving Tactical Exchanges in Shogi without Tree Searching. CG 2000, Word preprint
- Jeff Rollason, Didzis Cirulis (2005). Treebeard - A new way to do Chess. AI Factory, Summer 2005
- Jeff Rollason (2006). Looking for Alternatives to Quiescence Search. AI Factory, Autumn 2006 » Quiescence Search, SOMA
Forum Posts
- Treebeard Chess Engine by cornetmike, CCC, June 08, 2007
- Treebeard chess engine by Ruxy Sylwyka, CCC, February 28, 2009
- Free Chess program in Android by Fernando Villegas, CCC, December 03, 2014
External Links
Chess Engine
Misc
References
- ↑ Tom Loback - Treebeard and Hobbits, Ent from Wikipedia
- ↑ Jeff Rollason (2000). SUPER-SOMA - Solving Tactical Exchanges in Shogi without Tree Searching. CG 2000, Word preprint
- ↑ AI Factory Chess Treebeard
- ↑ Chess - MSN Games - Free Online Games
- ↑ Free Chess program in Android by Fernando Villegas, CCC, December 03, 2014