Marco Costalba

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Marco Costalba, an Italian software developer and proponent of open source software. Marco is author of QGit, a GUI of the free distributed version control system Git , initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development.

=Stockfish= Based on Tord Romstad's open source chess program Glaurung under the GNU General Public License, he started a branch called Stockfish in 2008, which in the meantime has become the main branch of Glaurung, further supported by Tord Romstad and Joona Kiiski as development team.

=Forum Posts=

2008 ...
2009
 * Monte carlo on a NVIDIA GPU ? by Marco Costalba, CCC, August 01, 2008 » GPU
 * Superlinear interpolator: a nice novelity ? by Marco Costalba, CCC, September 20, 2008 » Tapered Eval
 * Stockfish 1.0 by Marco Costalba, CCC, November 02, 2008
 * Please drop Stockfish by Marco Costalba, CCC, November 07, 2008
 * Re: relative history heuristic by Marco Costalba, CCC, November 30, 2008 » Relative History Heuristic
 * Null driven IID by Marco Costalba, CCC, December 08, 2008 » Internal Iterative Deepening
 * Piece attacks count by Marco Costalba, CCC, May 18, 2009 » Population Count
 * Cache pollution when reading/writing hash table by Marco Costalba, CCC, August 09, 2009 » Transposition Table
 * Likelihood of superiority by Marco Costalba, CCC, November 15, 2009 » LOS, LOS Table

2010 ...
2011 2012 2013 2014
 * Avoiding qsearch explosion by Marco Costalba, CCC, January 29, 2010 » Quiescence Search
 * DTS-ification of YBWC by Marco Costalba, CCC, June 01, 2010 » Young Brothers Wait Concept
 * Re: Extended Null-Move Reductions by Marco Costalba, CCC, August 20, 2010 » Null Move Pruning
 * Build magics on the fly by Marco Costalba, CCC, June 07, 2011 » Magic Bitboards, Looking for Magics
 * Is Rybka that needs ICGA or the opposite ? by Marco Costalba, CCC, July 03, 2011 » Rybka, ICGA
 * Re: Razoring by Marco Costalba, CCC, December 26, 2011 » Razoring
 * Mate score in TT by Marco Costalba, CCC, December 28, 2011 » Score, Transposition Table
 * A logging facility by Marco Costalba, CCC, March 18, 2012 » Logging, Stockfish
 * YBWC: Active Reparenting by Marco Costalba, CCC, April 10, 2012 » Young Brothers Wait Concept
 * World Computer Chess Championship ? by Marco Costalba, CCC, June 09, 2012 » ICGA, World Computer Chess Championship
 * C++11 for chess engines by Marco Costalba, CCC, September 03, 2012 » C++
 * LOS calculation: Does the same result is always the same? by Marco Costalba, CCC, October 01, 2012 » LOS, LOS Table
 * Fishtest Distributed Testing Framework by Marco Costalba, CCC, May 01, 2013 » Fishtest
 * Stockfish 4 by Marco Costalba, CCC, August 20, 2013
 * Tuning for rating lists ? by Marco Costalba, CCC, August 23, 2013 » Contempt Factor
 * Stockfish DD: a new official release by Marco Costalba, CCC, November 29, 2013 » TCEC Season 5, dedicated to Don Dailey
 * Stockfish 5 by Marco Costalba, CCC, May 31, 2014 » TCEC Season 6

2015 ...
2016 2017 2018
 * SF binaries for TCEC superfinal by Marco Costalba, CCC, October 31, 2015 » TCEC Season 8 Superfinal
 * Soccer-like chess by Marco Costalba, CCC, November 29, 2015
 * Question to syzygy author by Marco Costalba, CCC, April 24, 2016 » Ronald de Man
 * Natural TB by Marco Costalba, CCC, May 29, 2016 » Syzygy Bases
 * A PGN parser by Marco Costalba, CCC, October 23, 2016 » Portable Game Notation, Python
 * Stockfish 8 by Marco Costalba, FishCooking, November 01, 2016
 * Stockfish 8 official by Marco Costalba, CCC, November 01, 2016
 * Scoutfish: powerful chess query tool by Marco Costalba, CCC, December 11, 2016 » Databases, Portable Game Notation, Scoutfish
 * Re: Chessprogams with the most chessknowing by Marco Costalba, CCC, February 19, 2017 » Search versus Evaluation
 * Natural TB (take 2) by Marco Costalba, CCC, August 22, 2017 » Syzygy Bases
 * Stockfish 9 by Marco Costalba, CCC, February 01, 2018
 * Reliable speed comparison: some math required by Marco Costalba, CCC, February 27, 2018 » Nodes per Second, Optimization

=External Links=
 * mcostalba (Marco Costalba) · GitHub
 * Stockfish Chess Engine Home
 * Computerschach, Interview with Tord Romstad (Norway), Joona Kiiski (Finland) and Marco Costalba (Italy) by Frank Quisinsky, March 29, 2010
 * Stockfish 4 to play in the new season of TCEC | Chessdom - Short interview with the Stockfish team, August 22, 2013 » TCEC

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