Alvaro Cardoso

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Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso, a Portuguese checkers programmer, and author of the Portuguese checkers (Spanish checkers, classical checkers, Jogo de Damas Clássicas ) engine Profound, initially written in Powerbasic 2.1 augmented with many assembly instructions, considered as one of the strongest classical checkers engines. Alvaro is long term member in CCC.

=Forum Posts=

2000 ...

 * Using just Upperbounds and Lowerbounds by Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso, CCC, February 01, 2001 » Bound, Upper Bound, Lower Bound
 * Iterative deepening deep increment by Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso, CCC, February 27, 2001 » Iterative Deepening
 * Non power of two hash table sizes by Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso, CCC, February 18, 2002 Hash Table, Transposition Table
 * ALL node definition by Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso, CCC, February 21, 2003 » Node Types

2005 ...

 * DTC EGTB algorithms needed by Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso, CCC, August 12, 2005
 * History based pruning question by Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso, CCC, August 26, 2005 » Late Move Reductions
 * Counter move heuristic by Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso, CCC, August 30, 2005 » Countermove Heuristic
 * Wu / Beal retrograde analisys algorithm by Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso, Winboard Forum, March 10, 2007 » Retrograde Analysis
 * A simple book learning method by Alvaro Cardoso, CCC, June 12, 2008 » Book Learning, Persistent Hash Table
 * Extensions: everywhere or near the tips? by Alvaro Cardoso, CCC, March 15, 2009 » Extensions

2010 ...

 * Re: questão do profound by Alvaro Cardoso, Google Groups, July 11, 2010
 * Extended Null-Move Reductions by Alvaro Cardoso, CCC, August 20, 2010 » Null Move Pruning, Null Move Reductions
 * File size for files > 4Gb by Alvaro Cardoso, CCC, May 11, 2012
 * MEM_LARGE_PAGES by Alvaro Cardoso, CCC, September 18, 2013 » Memory
 * Multithreaded LRU by Alvaro Cardoso, CCC, October 06, 2013 » Endgame Tablebases, Memory, Thread
 * evaluating color agnostic terms by Alvaro Cardoso, CCC, October 15, 2013 » Asymmetric Evaluation

2015 ...

 * crafty eval cache by Alvaro Cardoso, CCC, January 01, 2016 » Crafty, Evaluation Hash Table
 * Neural networks for Spanish checkers and beyond by Alvaro, Game-AI Forum, January 01, 2016 » Neural Networks
 * AlphaGo by Alvaro, Game-AI Forum, January 29, 2016 » AlphaGo
 * LMR problems by Alvaro Cardoso, CCC, May 16, 2016 » Late Move Reductions
 * Unordered moves phenomenon by Alvaro Cardoso, CCC, October 03, 2017 » Move Ordering
 * Is chess still 99% tactics? by Alvaro Cardoso, CCC, January 11, 2018 » Tactics

=External Links=
 * Alvaro Cardoso - YouTube
 * Apresentação de Profound, software para jogar damas classicas, YouTube Video

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