Miguel A. Ballicora

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Miguel A. Ballicora, an Argentinean Biochemist and Assistant Chair at Loyola University Chicago with a Ph.D. from Leloir Institute, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, later Postdoctoral and Assistant Professor (Research) at Michigan State University. His current research focuses on the enzymes of glycogenesis in bacteria, and starch in plants, with a particular interest in their molecular evolution.

Miguel is FIDE Master in over the board chess, and as chess programmer author of the chess engine Gaviota, which supports both the Chess Engine Communication Protocol and UCI and is able to generate and use its own endgame tablebases, Gaviota tablebases. Gaviota's EGTB code has been released under the liberal MIT license, therefor basically anybody can use it with almost no restrictions. He is further author of Ordo, a program to calculate ratings of individual chess engines (or players) with similar goals as Elo, but a different model and algorithm.

=See also=
 * Gaviota
 * Gaviota Tablebases
 * Ordo
 * Rybka Controversy - Litmus Test
 * Texel's Tuning Method

=Selected Publications=
 * Miguel A. Ballicora, Jennifer R. Dubay, Claire H. Devillers, Jack Preiss (2005). Resurrecting the Ancestral Enzymatic Role of a Modulatory Subunit. Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol. 280, No. 11
 * Miguel A. Ballicora (2014). ORDO v0.9.6 Ratings for chess and other games. September 2014, pdf

=Forum Posts=

2000 ...

 * Hash table efficiency by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, December 05, 2000 » Transposition Table, Search Statistics
 * Simple Learning Technique and Random Play by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, January 18, 2001 » Search with Random Leaf Values, Persistent Hash Table
 * New Winboard Engine by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, January 20, 2001
 * Limited singular extensions. Anybody tried? by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, May 18, 2001 » Singular Extensions
 * Gaviota - FM Miguel A. Ballicora - live at ICC in 1 hour by Peter Berger, CCC, March 24, 2002
 * Great article for people who wants to write a chess engine by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, April 03, 2002

2005 ...

 * Move ordering: Delaying moves on the history phase by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, May 13, 2008 » Move ordering
 * Insanity... or Tal style? by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, April 01, 2009
 * Re: Insanity... or Tal style? by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, April 02, 2009 » Automated Tuning


 * Yet another bitboard attack generator by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, October 28, 2009 » Bitboards, Sliding Piece Attacks

2010 ...

 * Gaviota tablebases, Probing Code Release (Finally) by Miguel A. Ballicora, Winboard Forum, February 10, 2010
 * Aquarium (other GUIs too?) and WB support => I am shocked by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, February 27, 2010
 * SMP speed up by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, September 14, 2010 » Parallel Search
 * Ordo release (rating software, ELO-like) by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, January 11, 2012
 * UCI, ownbooks, and a potential problem by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, June 16, 2014 » UCI, Opening Book
 * Ordo 0.9.6 by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, September 10, 2014

2015 ...

 * Ordo 1.0.9 (new features for testers) by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, January 25, 2016
 * Ordoprep 0.8 by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, February 28, 2016

=External Links=
 * Miguel A. Ballicora - Assistant Chair - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry - Loyola University Chicago
 * Enzyme Resurrection — JBC
 * Scientific Commons: Miguel A. Ballicora
 * Gaviota Home
 * Ordo » Match Statistics


 * Interview with Miguel Ballicora by Michael Diosi, Free chess graphical user interface (GUI) Arena for chess engines, December 2010
 * Interview with Miguel Ballicora | Chessdom, February 23, 2013

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