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'''Marco Costalba''',<br/>
an Italian software developer and proponent of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source open source] software <ref>[http://mcostalba.users.sourceforge.net/ SourceForge.net: Marco Costalba - Developer Web Hosting - Open Source Software]</ref>. Marco is author of ''QGit'' <ref>[http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/ QGit a git GUI viewer built on Qt/C++]</ref> , a GUI of the free distributed version control system [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_%28software%29 Git] <ref>[http://git-scm.com/ Git - Fast Version Control System]</ref>, initially designed and developed by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds Linus Torvalds] for [[Linux]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel kernel] development.
=Stockfish=
Based on [[Tord Romstad|Tord Romstad's]] [[:Category:Open Source|open source chess program]] [[Glaurung]] under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GNU General Public License]], he started a branch called [[Stockfish]] in 2008 <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24675 Stockfish 1.0] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], November 02, 2008 </ref>, which in the meantime has become the main branch of Glaurung, further supported by Tord Romstad and [[Joona Kiiski]] as development team <ref>[http://wbec-ridderkerk.forumotion.com/wbec-ridderkerk-news-info-f1/stockfish-glaurung-t402.htm Stockfish - Glaurung] from [[WBEC|WBEC-Ridderkerk forum]], September, 2009</ref>.
=Forum Posts=
==2008 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22732 Monte carlo on a NVIDIA GPU ?] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], August 01, 2008 » [[GPU]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23860 Superlinear interpolator: a nice novelity ?] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], September 20, 2008 » [[Tapered Eval]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24675 Stockfish 1.0] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], November 02, 2008
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24771 Please drop Stockfish] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], November 07, 2008
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=234691&t=25118&sid=5d8f3f4a0d7f4c59a93e786c21c00072 Re: relative history heuristic] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], November 30, 2008 » [[Relative History Heuristic]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25317 Null driven IID] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], December 08, 2008 » [[Internal Iterative Deepening]]
'''2009'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=267994&t=27965 Piece attacks count] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], May 18, 2009 » [[Population Count]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=285407 Cache pollution when reading/writing hash table] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], August 09, 2009 » [[Transposition Table]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30624 Likelihood of superiority] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], November 15, 2009 » [[Match Statistics#Likelihood of superiority|LOS]], [[LOS Table]]
==2010 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32148 Avoiding qsearch explosion] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], January 29, 2010 » [[Quiescence Search]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34633 DTS-ification of YBWC] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], June 01, 2010 » [[Young Brothers Wait Concept]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=367314&t=35841 Re: Extended Null-Move Reductions] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], August 20, 2010 » [[Null Move Pruning]]
'''2011'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39298 Build magics on the fly] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], June 07, 2011 » [[Magic Bitboards]], [[Looking for Magics]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39593 Is Rybka that needs ICGA or the opposite ?] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], July 03, 2011 » [[Rybka]], [[ICGA]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=439431&t=41597 Re: Razoring] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], December 26, 2011 » [[Razoring]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41640 Mate score in TT] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], December 28, 2011 » [[Score]], [[Transposition Table]]
'''2012'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=42930 A logging facility] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], March 18, 2012 » [[Logging]], [[Stockfish]] <ref>[https://github.com/mcostalba/Stockfish/commit/eb28a683bd5a15be4a59c1e14b45b2c80cf7bf2c add (smart) logging facility · eb28a68 · mcostalba/Stockfish · GitHub]</ref>
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=43243 YBWC: Active Reparenting] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], April 10, 2012 » [[Young Brothers Wait Concept]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44000 World Computer Chess Championship ?] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], June 09, 2012 » [[ICGA]], [[World Computer Chess Championship]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44999 C++11 for chess engines] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], September 03, 2012 » [[Cpp|C++]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=45406 LOS calculation: Does the same result is always the same?] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], October 01, 2012 » [[Match Statistics#Likelihood of superiority|LOS]], [[LOS Table]]
'''2013'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47885 Fishtest Distributed Testing Framework] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], May 01, 2013 » [[Stockfish#Fishtest|Fishtest]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=49035 Stockfish 4] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], August 20, 2013
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=49062 Tuning for rating lists ?] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], August 23, 2013 » [[Contempt Factor]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50275 Stockfish DD: a new official release] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], November 29, 2013 » [[TCEC Season 5]], dedicated to [[Don Dailey]]
'''2014'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=52487 Stockfish 5] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], May 31, 2014 » [[TCEC Season 6]]
==2015 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58103 SF binaries for TCEC superfinal] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], October 31, 2015 » [[TCEC Season 8#Superfinal|TCEC Season 8 Superfinal]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58423 Soccer-like chess] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], November 29, 2015
'''2016'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=59947 Question to syzygy author] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], April 24, 2016 » [[Ronald de Man]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60312 Natural TB] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], May 29, 2016 » [[Syzygy Bases]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61809 A PGN parser] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], October 23, 2016 » [[Portable Game Notation]], [[Python]]
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/fishcooking/LCoojE9O5jU/h6xgvg2EBgAJ Stockfish 8] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[Computer Chess Forums|FishCooking]], November 01, 2016
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61924 Stockfish 8 official] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], November 01, 2016
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=62452 Scoutfish: powerful chess query tool] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], December 11, 2016 » [[Databases]], [[Portable Game Notation]], [[Scoutfish]]
'''2017'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=54697&start=50 Re: Chessprogams with the most chessknowing] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], February 19, 2017 » [[Knowledge#SearchVersusEvaluation|Search versus Evaluation]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60312&start=240 Natural TB (take 2)] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], August 22, 2017 » [[Syzygy Bases]]
'''2018'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66470 Stockfish 9] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], February 01, 2018
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66701 Reliable speed comparison: some math required] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], February 27, 2018 » [[Nodes per Second]], [[Optimization]]
=External Links=
* [https://github.com/mcostalba mcostalba (Marco Costalba) · GitHub]
* [http://www.stockfishchess.com/ Stockfish Chess Engine Home]
* [http://www.schach-welt.de/schach/computerschach/interviews/romstad-kiiski-costalba-eng Computerschach, Interview with Tord Romstad (Norway), Joona Kiiski (Finland) and Marco Costalba (Italy)] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], March 29, 2010
* [http://www.chessdom.com/stockfish-4-to-play-in-the-new-season-of-tcec/ Stockfish 4 to play in the new season of TCEC | Chessdom - Short interview with the Stockfish team], August 22, 2013 » [[TCEC]]
=References=
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'''Marco Costalba''',<br/>
an Italian software developer and proponent of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source open source] software <ref>[http://mcostalba.users.sourceforge.net/ SourceForge.net: Marco Costalba - Developer Web Hosting - Open Source Software]</ref>. Marco is author of ''QGit'' <ref>[http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/ QGit a git GUI viewer built on Qt/C++]</ref> , a GUI of the free distributed version control system [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_%28software%29 Git] <ref>[http://git-scm.com/ Git - Fast Version Control System]</ref>, initially designed and developed by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds Linus Torvalds] for [[Linux]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel kernel] development.
=Stockfish=
Based on [[Tord Romstad|Tord Romstad's]] [[:Category:Open Source|open source chess program]] [[Glaurung]] under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GNU General Public License]], he started a branch called [[Stockfish]] in 2008 <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24675 Stockfish 1.0] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], November 02, 2008 </ref>, which in the meantime has become the main branch of Glaurung, further supported by Tord Romstad and [[Joona Kiiski]] as development team <ref>[http://wbec-ridderkerk.forumotion.com/wbec-ridderkerk-news-info-f1/stockfish-glaurung-t402.htm Stockfish - Glaurung] from [[WBEC|WBEC-Ridderkerk forum]], September, 2009</ref>.
=Forum Posts=
==2008 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22732 Monte carlo on a NVIDIA GPU ?] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], August 01, 2008 » [[GPU]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23860 Superlinear interpolator: a nice novelity ?] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], September 20, 2008 » [[Tapered Eval]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24675 Stockfish 1.0] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], November 02, 2008
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24771 Please drop Stockfish] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], November 07, 2008
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=234691&t=25118&sid=5d8f3f4a0d7f4c59a93e786c21c00072 Re: relative history heuristic] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], November 30, 2008 » [[Relative History Heuristic]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25317 Null driven IID] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], December 08, 2008 » [[Internal Iterative Deepening]]
'''2009'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=267994&t=27965 Piece attacks count] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], May 18, 2009 » [[Population Count]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=285407 Cache pollution when reading/writing hash table] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], August 09, 2009 » [[Transposition Table]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30624 Likelihood of superiority] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], November 15, 2009 » [[Match Statistics#Likelihood of superiority|LOS]], [[LOS Table]]
==2010 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32148 Avoiding qsearch explosion] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], January 29, 2010 » [[Quiescence Search]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34633 DTS-ification of YBWC] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], June 01, 2010 » [[Young Brothers Wait Concept]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=367314&t=35841 Re: Extended Null-Move Reductions] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], August 20, 2010 » [[Null Move Pruning]]
'''2011'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39298 Build magics on the fly] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], June 07, 2011 » [[Magic Bitboards]], [[Looking for Magics]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39593 Is Rybka that needs ICGA or the opposite ?] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], July 03, 2011 » [[Rybka]], [[ICGA]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=439431&t=41597 Re: Razoring] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], December 26, 2011 » [[Razoring]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41640 Mate score in TT] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], December 28, 2011 » [[Score]], [[Transposition Table]]
'''2012'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=42930 A logging facility] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], March 18, 2012 » [[Logging]], [[Stockfish]] <ref>[https://github.com/mcostalba/Stockfish/commit/eb28a683bd5a15be4a59c1e14b45b2c80cf7bf2c add (smart) logging facility · eb28a68 · mcostalba/Stockfish · GitHub]</ref>
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=43243 YBWC: Active Reparenting] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], April 10, 2012 » [[Young Brothers Wait Concept]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44000 World Computer Chess Championship ?] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], June 09, 2012 » [[ICGA]], [[World Computer Chess Championship]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44999 C++11 for chess engines] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], September 03, 2012 » [[Cpp|C++]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=45406 LOS calculation: Does the same result is always the same?] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], October 01, 2012 » [[Match Statistics#Likelihood of superiority|LOS]], [[LOS Table]]
'''2013'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47885 Fishtest Distributed Testing Framework] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], May 01, 2013 » [[Stockfish#Fishtest|Fishtest]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=49035 Stockfish 4] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], August 20, 2013
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=49062 Tuning for rating lists ?] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], August 23, 2013 » [[Contempt Factor]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50275 Stockfish DD: a new official release] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], November 29, 2013 » [[TCEC Season 5]], dedicated to [[Don Dailey]]
'''2014'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=52487 Stockfish 5] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], May 31, 2014 » [[TCEC Season 6]]
==2015 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58103 SF binaries for TCEC superfinal] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], October 31, 2015 » [[TCEC Season 8#Superfinal|TCEC Season 8 Superfinal]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58423 Soccer-like chess] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], November 29, 2015
'''2016'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=59947 Question to syzygy author] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], April 24, 2016 » [[Ronald de Man]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60312 Natural TB] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], May 29, 2016 » [[Syzygy Bases]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61809 A PGN parser] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], October 23, 2016 » [[Portable Game Notation]], [[Python]]
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/fishcooking/LCoojE9O5jU/h6xgvg2EBgAJ Stockfish 8] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[Computer Chess Forums|FishCooking]], November 01, 2016
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61924 Stockfish 8 official] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], November 01, 2016
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=62452 Scoutfish: powerful chess query tool] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], December 11, 2016 » [[Databases]], [[Portable Game Notation]], [[Scoutfish]]
'''2017'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=54697&start=50 Re: Chessprogams with the most chessknowing] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], February 19, 2017 » [[Knowledge#SearchVersusEvaluation|Search versus Evaluation]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60312&start=240 Natural TB (take 2)] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], August 22, 2017 » [[Syzygy Bases]]
'''2018'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66470 Stockfish 9] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], February 01, 2018
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66701 Reliable speed comparison: some math required] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], February 27, 2018 » [[Nodes per Second]], [[Optimization]]
=External Links=
* [https://github.com/mcostalba mcostalba (Marco Costalba) · GitHub]
* [http://www.stockfishchess.com/ Stockfish Chess Engine Home]
* [http://www.schach-welt.de/schach/computerschach/interviews/romstad-kiiski-costalba-eng Computerschach, Interview with Tord Romstad (Norway), Joona Kiiski (Finland) and Marco Costalba (Italy)] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], March 29, 2010
* [http://www.chessdom.com/stockfish-4-to-play-in-the-new-season-of-tcec/ Stockfish 4 to play in the new season of TCEC | Chessdom - Short interview with the Stockfish team], August 22, 2013 » [[TCEC]]
=References=
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'''[[People|Up one level]]'''
