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=History=
<ref>[http://www.tckerrigan.com/Chess/Stobor Stobor from Tom Kerrigan's Home Page] - History</ref> :
The first version of Stobor in 1993 was mainly influenced by the 1978 articles by [[Peter W. Frey]] and [[Larry Atkin]] on [[Chess 0.5]] in [[Byte Magazine#BYTE310|BYTE magazine]] <ref>[[Peter W. Frey]], [[Larry Atkin]] ('''1978'''). ''[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6d5ba2 Creating a Chess Player].'' An Essay on Human and Computer Chess Skill, [[Byte Magazine#BYTE310|BYTE, Vol. 3, No. 10]]</ref> using attack [[Bitboards|bitboards]]. After discussions with [[Bruce Moreland]] at [[Internet Chess Club|ICC]], the 1995 rewrite introduced [[Ferret]] or [[GNU Chess|GNU Chess 3]] like [[Table-driven Move Generation|precomputed move tables]], while the 1999 rewrite stuck with [[0x88]]. A first version of a [[Parallel Search|parallel search]] was written in 2002 on a dual Pentium II, optimized in 2016 for 16 cores <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=63023 Good parallel speedup with ABDADA and cutoff checks] by [[Tom Kerrigan]], [[CCC]], February 03, 2017</ref>. In 2004, Stobor's evaluation function was redesigned as mentioned.
