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[[FILE:GC_Pascutto.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=http://old.csvn.nl/mei2003toernooi.html| Gian-Carlo Pascutto <ref>[http://old.csvn.nl/mei2003toernooi.html 3rd International CSVN Tournament Leiden, Netherlands, May 16-18, 2003], [[ICT 2003]]</ref>
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'''Gian-Carlo Pascutto''', (GCP)<br/>
a Belgian <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=375276 Re: WCCC2004 on mainstream Italian newspaper] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], July 09, 2004</ref> computer scientist, and computer chess and [[Go]] programmer with further interests in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_recording_and_reproduction sound recording and reproduction] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signal_processing digital signal processing] <ref>[http://sjeng.org/ Sjeng - chess, audio and misc. software]</ref>.
Gian-Carlo is author of the free [[:Category:Open Source|open source]] chess and [[Chess#Variants|chess variants]] engine [[Sjeng]] <ref>[http://sjeng.org/indexold.html Sjeng : a chess-and-variants playing program]</ref>, the chess engine [[Deep Sjeng]], which emerged from the closed source Sjeng 12.7 branch <ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/browse_frm/thread/66707061247326df Sjeng 12.7 and 11.2 released] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], January 2, 2002</ref> since 2003 commercial <ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/browse_frm/thread/261bfb217175033a Deep Sjeng 1.0 released] by [[Lex Loep|Lex]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], March 3, 2003</ref>, the experimental chess engine [[Stoofvlees]], and the Go playing program [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=531 Leela] <ref>[http://sjeng.org/leela.html Sjeng - chess, audio and misc. software - Leela]</ref>.
=Leela Zero=
More recently, after [[DeepMind]] published the [[AlphaGo#Zero|AlphaGo Zero]] paper <ref>[[David Silver]], [[Julian Schrittwieser]], [[Karen Simonyan]], [[Ioannis Antonoglou]], [[Shih-Chieh Huang|Aja Huang]], [[Arthur Guez]], [[Thomas Hubert]], [[Lucas Baker]], [[Matthew Lai]], [[Adrian Bolton]], [[Yutian Chen]], [[Timothy Lillicrap]], [[Fan Hui]], [[Laurent Sifre]], [[George van den Driessche]], [[Thore Graepel]], [[Demis Hassabis]] ('''2017'''). ''[https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v550/n7676/full/nature24270.html Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_%28journal%29 Nature], Vol. 550, [https://www.gwern.net/docs/rl/2017-silver.pdf pdf]</ref>, Gian-Carlo Pascutto designed and initiated [[Leela Zero]] <ref>[https://github.com/gcp/leela-zero GitHub - gcp/leela-zero: Go engine with no human-provided knowledge, modeled after the AlphaGo Zero paper]</ref>, a Go playing entity using [[Monte-Carlo Tree Search|MCTS]] (but without Monte Carlo playouts) and a [[Neural Networks#Deep|deep]] [[Neural Networks#Residual|residual]] [[Neural Networks#Convolutional|convolutional neural network]] stack, trained by a public, distributed effort, as [[LCZero]] also adapted to chess <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66280 Announcing lczero] by [[Gary Linscott|Gary]], [[CCC]], January 09, 2018
</ref> <ref>[https://github.com/glinscott/leela-chess GitHub - glinscott/leela-chess: A chess adaption of GCP's Leela Zero]</ref>.
=Forum Posts=
==1999==
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=85079 Extended futility pruning and hashtables] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], December 30, 1999 » [[Futility Pruning]], [[Transposition Table]]
==2000 ...==
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=86122 Subject: PVS and NegaScout] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], January 05, 2000 » [[Principal Variation Search]], [[NegaScout]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=106176 Sjeng 7 out - with sources now (GPL)] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], April 15, 2000 » [[Sjeng]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=173514 Beating MTD(n,f)] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], June 05, 2001 » [[MTD(f)]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=189126 Chess over LAN revisited - APHID] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], September 17, 2001 » [[APHID]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=189308 A proposed WAC replacement for testing] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], September 18, 2001 » [[Win at Chess]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=190499 Playing the NPS game] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], September 26, 2001 » [[Nodes per Second]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=223036 About False Fail Highs, professionals, and MTD searches] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], April 12, 2002 » [[Fail-High]], [[MTD(f)]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=248485 Deep Sjeng testers wanted] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], August 28, 2002 » [[Deep Sjeng]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=375276 Re: WCCC2004 on mainstream Italian newspaper] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], July 09, 2004 » [[WCCC 2004]]
==2005 ...==
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=428759 Re: Singular extensions and null move] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], May 29, 2005 » [[Singular Extensions]], [[Null Move Pruning]]
* [http://talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=254434 Results from UCT parallelization] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], March 11, 2009 » [[UCT]], [[Parallel Search]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30612 Paradigm shifts] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], November 14, 2009 » [[Ippolit]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=313351&t=31354 Re: Gaviota TBs, compression schemes] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], December 30, 2009
==2010 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=316511&t=31545 Re: Chess program with Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)?] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], January 07, 2010 » [[Stoofvlees]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=316769&t=31545 Re: Chess program with Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)?] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], January 08, 2010
* [http://computer-go.org/pipermail/computer-go/2010-June/000376.html Re: Chess vs Go // AI vs IA] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], June 02, 2010 » [[Go]], [[Artificial Intelligence]]
=External Links=
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=92 Gian-Carlo Pascutto's ICGA Tournaments]
* [http://www.schach-welt.de/schach/computerschach/interviews/gian-carlo-pascutto-eng Computerschach, Interview with Gian-Carlo Pascutto] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], February 04, 2010
* [https://github.com/gcp gcp (Gian-Carlo Pascutto) · GitHub]
* [http://sjeng.org/ Sjeng - chess, audio and misc. software]
* [http://www.computer-go.info/db/operson.php?a=Pascutto%2C+Gian-Carlo Pascutto, Gian-Carlo] from [http://www.computer-go.info/ computer-go.info]
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[[FILE:GC_Pascutto.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=http://old.csvn.nl/mei2003toernooi.html| Gian-Carlo Pascutto <ref>[http://old.csvn.nl/mei2003toernooi.html 3rd International CSVN Tournament Leiden, Netherlands, May 16-18, 2003], [[ICT 2003]]</ref>
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'''Gian-Carlo Pascutto''', (GCP)<br/>
a Belgian <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=375276 Re: WCCC2004 on mainstream Italian newspaper] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], July 09, 2004</ref> computer scientist, and computer chess and [[Go]] programmer with further interests in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_recording_and_reproduction sound recording and reproduction] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signal_processing digital signal processing] <ref>[http://sjeng.org/ Sjeng - chess, audio and misc. software]</ref>.
Gian-Carlo is author of the free [[:Category:Open Source|open source]] chess and [[Chess#Variants|chess variants]] engine [[Sjeng]] <ref>[http://sjeng.org/indexold.html Sjeng : a chess-and-variants playing program]</ref>, the chess engine [[Deep Sjeng]], which emerged from the closed source Sjeng 12.7 branch <ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/browse_frm/thread/66707061247326df Sjeng 12.7 and 11.2 released] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], January 2, 2002</ref> since 2003 commercial <ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/browse_frm/thread/261bfb217175033a Deep Sjeng 1.0 released] by [[Lex Loep|Lex]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], March 3, 2003</ref>, the experimental chess engine [[Stoofvlees]], and the Go playing program [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=531 Leela] <ref>[http://sjeng.org/leela.html Sjeng - chess, audio and misc. software - Leela]</ref>.
=Leela Zero=
More recently, after [[DeepMind]] published the [[AlphaGo#Zero|AlphaGo Zero]] paper <ref>[[David Silver]], [[Julian Schrittwieser]], [[Karen Simonyan]], [[Ioannis Antonoglou]], [[Shih-Chieh Huang|Aja Huang]], [[Arthur Guez]], [[Thomas Hubert]], [[Lucas Baker]], [[Matthew Lai]], [[Adrian Bolton]], [[Yutian Chen]], [[Timothy Lillicrap]], [[Fan Hui]], [[Laurent Sifre]], [[George van den Driessche]], [[Thore Graepel]], [[Demis Hassabis]] ('''2017'''). ''[https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v550/n7676/full/nature24270.html Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_%28journal%29 Nature], Vol. 550, [https://www.gwern.net/docs/rl/2017-silver.pdf pdf]</ref>, Gian-Carlo Pascutto designed and initiated [[Leela Zero]] <ref>[https://github.com/gcp/leela-zero GitHub - gcp/leela-zero: Go engine with no human-provided knowledge, modeled after the AlphaGo Zero paper]</ref>, a Go playing entity using [[Monte-Carlo Tree Search|MCTS]] (but without Monte Carlo playouts) and a [[Neural Networks#Deep|deep]] [[Neural Networks#Residual|residual]] [[Neural Networks#Convolutional|convolutional neural network]] stack, trained by a public, distributed effort, as [[LCZero]] also adapted to chess <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66280 Announcing lczero] by [[Gary Linscott|Gary]], [[CCC]], January 09, 2018
</ref> <ref>[https://github.com/glinscott/leela-chess GitHub - glinscott/leela-chess: A chess adaption of GCP's Leela Zero]</ref>.
=Forum Posts=
==1999==
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=85079 Extended futility pruning and hashtables] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], December 30, 1999 » [[Futility Pruning]], [[Transposition Table]]
==2000 ...==
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=86122 Subject: PVS and NegaScout] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], January 05, 2000 » [[Principal Variation Search]], [[NegaScout]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=106176 Sjeng 7 out - with sources now (GPL)] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], April 15, 2000 » [[Sjeng]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=173514 Beating MTD(n,f)] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], June 05, 2001 » [[MTD(f)]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=189126 Chess over LAN revisited - APHID] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], September 17, 2001 » [[APHID]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=189308 A proposed WAC replacement for testing] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], September 18, 2001 » [[Win at Chess]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=190499 Playing the NPS game] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], September 26, 2001 » [[Nodes per Second]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=223036 About False Fail Highs, professionals, and MTD searches] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], April 12, 2002 » [[Fail-High]], [[MTD(f)]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=248485 Deep Sjeng testers wanted] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], August 28, 2002 » [[Deep Sjeng]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=375276 Re: WCCC2004 on mainstream Italian newspaper] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], July 09, 2004 » [[WCCC 2004]]
==2005 ...==
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=428759 Re: Singular extensions and null move] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], May 29, 2005 » [[Singular Extensions]], [[Null Move Pruning]]
* [http://talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=254434 Results from UCT parallelization] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], March 11, 2009 » [[UCT]], [[Parallel Search]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30612 Paradigm shifts] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], November 14, 2009 » [[Ippolit]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=313351&t=31354 Re: Gaviota TBs, compression schemes] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], December 30, 2009
==2010 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=316511&t=31545 Re: Chess program with Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)?] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], January 07, 2010 » [[Stoofvlees]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=316769&t=31545 Re: Chess program with Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)?] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], January 08, 2010
* [http://computer-go.org/pipermail/computer-go/2010-June/000376.html Re: Chess vs Go // AI vs IA] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], June 02, 2010 » [[Go]], [[Artificial Intelligence]]
=External Links=
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=92 Gian-Carlo Pascutto's ICGA Tournaments]
* [http://www.schach-welt.de/schach/computerschach/interviews/gian-carlo-pascutto-eng Computerschach, Interview with Gian-Carlo Pascutto] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], February 04, 2010
* [https://github.com/gcp gcp (Gian-Carlo Pascutto) · GitHub]
* [http://sjeng.org/ Sjeng - chess, audio and misc. software]
* [http://www.computer-go.info/db/operson.php?a=Pascutto%2C+Gian-Carlo Pascutto, Gian-Carlo] from [http://www.computer-go.info/ computer-go.info]
=References=
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