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Eric Oldre, an American technical architect, independent software consultant, and software engineer with expertise in C#, ASP.Net, AJAX, jQuery, and VB.NET, who holds a Bachelor's degree in organizational management from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1999. In 2004, Eric started chess programming in VB.NET, and soon focused on a new version written in C , which evolved to the engine name Latista, later renamed to Sinobyl due to trademark issues . Sinobyl was later ported to C# , released in 2014 as NoraGrace, dedicated to Nora Grace Oldre who was taken from Eric and his wife unexpectedly a few days before she was due to be born .

=Forum Posts=

2004

 * transition to endgame by Eric Oldre, CCC, April 02, 2004
 * finding when a move is obvious by Eric Oldre, CCC, April 13, 2004
 * Engines written in .NET or java by Eric Oldre, CCC, April 23, 2004
 * Test position software... whats out there already? by Eric Oldre, CCC, April 27, 2004
 * advantages to board pointers by Eric Oldre, CCC, June 10, 2004
 * Approaches to threading by Eric Oldre, CCC, June 15, 2004 » Thread
 * Hash table question by Eric Oldre, CCC, June 20, 2004 » Transposition Table
 * bitboards and incrementally updated attack tables by Eric Oldre, CCC, June 30, 2004 » Attack and Defend Maps
 * Interpreting my analysis of the Fine 70 position by Eric Oldre, CCC, July 11, 2004 » Lasker-Reichhelm Position
 * branch misprediction by Eric Oldre, CCC, July 14, 2004 » Avoiding Branches
 * A move to search 2nd... Keep in the trans table? by Eric Oldre, CCC, July 21, 2004
 * Transposition table replacement by Eric Oldre, CCC, July 29, 2004
 * Fair uses for "Free engines" by Eric Oldre, CCC, December 16, 2004

2005 ...

 * Bitboard board representation by Eric Oldre, CCC, January 13, 2005 » Bitboard Board-Definition
 * An interesting bug i found tonight in latista by Eric Oldre, CCC, January 16, 2005
 * General Tips and Tricks for debugging a search by Eric Oldre, CCC, June 15, 2005
 * Latista 1.3 released by Eric Oldre, CCC, July 02, 2005
 * Latista 1.4 released. (Rybka killer edition!) by Eric Oldre, CCC, December 23, 2005
 * Latista 1.5 by Eric Oldre, CCC, January 13, 2006
 * Re: new/updated engines: 2008/11/28-29 by Eric Oldre, Winboard Forum, December 01, 2008

2010 ...

 * New open source engine in C# - NoraGrace by Eric Oldre, CCC, June 20, 2014
 * NoraGrace 2.0 (c# engine) by Eric Oldre, CCC, November 22, 2014

=External Links=
 * Eric Oldre | LinkedIn
 * ericoldre · GitHub

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