Marcel Vanthoor

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Marcel Vanthoor, a Dutch software engineer and computer chess programmer. He has already written a very basic chess program in Turbo Pascal , and started a chess programming comeback in 2020 with his didactic chess engine Rustic written in Rust. Progress on Rustic is topic of his CCC thread, explaining all his development trials.

=Forum Posts=

2019

 * Stockfish 10 x64 Level ELO's (WIP) by Marcel Vanthoor, CCC, July 15, 2019 » Stockfish
 * Stockfish vs. Lc0: IMHO disappointing result for Lc0 by Marcel Vanthoor, CCC, July 27, 2019 » Lc0

2020

 * New chess engine: Rustic by Marcel Vanthoor, CCC, February 23, 2020 » Rustic
 * Don't understand CarryRippler by Marcel Vanthoor, CCC, February 27, 2020 » Carry-Rippler
 * Where to enter/read position into hash table in perft? by Marcel Vanthoor, CCC, March 28, 2020 » Perft, Transposition Table
 * Perft speed optimization by Marcel Vanthoor, CCC, April 06, 2020 » Perft
 * Progress on Rustic by Marcel Vanthoor, CCC, September 16, 2020
 * Determining evaluation by a genetic algorithm by Marcel Vanthoor, CCC, October 09, 2020 » Genetic Algorithms
 * Principal Variation Search vs. Transposition Table by Marcel Vanthoor, CCC, October 26, 2020 » Principal Variation
 * Make engine stop repeating moves in a clearly won position by Marcel Vanthoor, CCC, October 27, 2020 » Repetitions
 * CECP "time" and "otim" by Marcel Vanthoor, CCC, November 30, 2020 » CECP, Time Management

2021

 * SEE (Static Exchange Evaluation) pruning nodes by Marcel Vanthoor, CCC, March 01, 2021 » Static Exchange Evaluation
 * Your motivation for writing a chess engine? by Marcel Vanthoor, CCC, March 05, 2021
 * Hitting a wall at ~1860 Elo by Marcel Vanthoor, CCC, June 02, 2021

=External Links=
 * mvanthoor (Marcel Vanthoor) · GitHub
 * About - Rustic Chess Engine

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