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Pawel Koziol ¹

Pawel Koziol,
an amateur chess programmer from Poland. Author of Hopeless (open-source, written in Delphi, characterized by very unbalanced playing style) and CCCP (free but closed source, derived from TSCP, playing also chess variant called knightmate). Pawel Koziol has contributed to the Chess Programming Wiki mainly to the pages on evaluation. He is co-author ofthe CPW-engine and is author of Glass ¹, and the more recent open source engine Rodent ².

Forum Posts

2007 ...

• is there a 10x8 equivalent of 0x88 by Pawel Koziol, CCC, October 26, 2007 » 0x88
• fractal null move by Pawel Koziol, CCC, November 28, 2007 » Null Move Pruning
• PVS and aspiration by Pawel Koziol, CCC, May 31, 2008 » PVS and Aspiration

2010 ...

• open source gift for Christmas by Pawel Koziol, CCC, December 25, 2011
• Rodent 0.12 by Pawel Koziol, CCC, February 29, 2012
• Rodent 0.17 for New Year! by Pawel Koziol, CCC, December 31, 2012
• positional patterns for "human" engine by Pawel Koziol, CCC, February 16, 2013 » Evaluation Patterns
• Rodent turns 1.0 ! by Pawel Koziol, CCC, March 05, 2013
• Rodent 1.1 released by Pawel Koziol, CCC, September 30, 2013
• Piece/square table challenge by Pawel Koziol, CCC, January 09, 2014 » Piece-Square Tables
• Rodent 1.3 by Pawel Koziol, CCC, January 21, 2014
• fixing CPW-engine by Pawel Koziol, CCC, December 30, 2014

2015 ...

• pattern coding in bitboards by Pawel Koziol, CCC, February 26, 2015 » Defended Defenders, Pawn Chain
• Mini Rodent asks for code review by Pawel Koziol, CCC, October 01, 2015
• Mini Rodent 1.0 by Pawel Koziol, CCC, October 26, 2015
• Rodent II is out by Pawel Koziol, CCC, February 15, 2016
• OpenTal - almost new engine by Pawel Koziol, CCC, December 17, 2017
• OpenTal 1.1 by Pawel Koziol, CCC, Jan 05, 2018
• Poor man's neurones by Pawel Koziol, CCC, May 21, 2018 » Neural Networks
• Lazy SMP ideas by Pawel Koziol, CCC, August 23, 2018 » Lazy SMP ³
• Rodent III 0.273 - official release by Pawel Koziol, CCC, September 01, 2018
• Eval hashtable replacement scheme by Pawel Koziol, CCC, October 08, 2019 » Evaluation Hash Table

2020 ...

• My statement from Rodent homepage by Pawel Koziol, ProDeo Forum, December 05, 2020 » CCC
• Engine choosing between sets of piece/square tables by nescitus, ProDeo Forum, December 05, 2020 » Piece-Square Tables
• Controlled randomness of evaluation function by nescitus, ProDeo Forum, December 06, 2020
• little fun with TSCP by nescitus, ProDeo Forum, February 12, 2021 » TSCP, PeSTO's Evaluation Function

External Links

• nescitus (Pawel Koziol) · GitHub
• Rodent Chess
• OpenTal 1.1

References