Alvaro Cardoso
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Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso,
a Portuguese checkers programmer, and author of the Portuguese checkers (Spanish checkers, classical checkers, Jogo de Damas Clássicas
[1]) engine Profound, initially written in Powerbasic 2.1 augmented with many assembly instructions [2], considered as one of the strongest classical checkers engines [3] [4]. Alvaro is long term member in CCC.
Forum Posts
2000 ...
- Using just Upperbounds and Lowerbounds by Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso, CCC, February 01, 2001 » Bound, Upper Bound, Lower Bound
- Iterative deepening deep increment by Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso, CCC, February 27, 2001 » Iterative Deepening
- Non power of two hash table sizes by Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso, CCC, February 18, 2002 Hash Table, Transposition Table
- ALL node definition by Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso, CCC, February 21, 2003 » Node Types
2005 ...
- DTC EGTB algorithms needed by Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso, CCC, August 12, 2005
- History based pruning question by Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso, CCC, August 26, 2005 » Late Move Reductions
- Counter move heuristic by Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso, CCC, August 30, 2005 » Countermove Heuristic
- Wu / Beal retrograde analisys algorithm by Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso, Winboard Forum, March 10, 2007 » Retrograde Analysis [5]
- A simple book learning method by Alvaro Cardoso, CCC, June 12, 2008 » Book Learning, Persistent Hash Table
- Extensions: everywhere or near the tips? by Alvaro Cardoso, CCC, March 15, 2009 » Extensions
2010 ...
- Re: questão do profound by Alvaro Cardoso, Google Groups, July 11, 2010
- Extended Null-Move Reductions by Alvaro Cardoso, CCC, August 20, 2010 » Null Move Pruning, Null Move Reductions
- File size for files > 4Gb by Alvaro Cardoso, CCC, May 11, 2012
- MEM_LARGE_PAGES by Alvaro Cardoso, CCC, September 18, 2013 » Memory
- Multithreaded LRU by Alvaro Cardoso, CCC, October 06, 2013 » Endgame Tablebases, Memory, Thread
- evaluating color agnostic terms by Alvaro Cardoso, CCC, October 15, 2013 » Asymmetric Evaluation
2015 ...
- crafty eval cache by Alvaro Cardoso, CCC, January 01, 2016 » Crafty, Evaluation Hash Table
- Neural networks for Spanish checkers and beyond by Alvaro, Game-AI Forum, January 01, 2016 » Neural Networks
- AlphaGo by Alvaro, Game-AI Forum, January 29, 2016 » AlphaGo
- LMR problems by Alvaro Cardoso, CCC, May 16, 2016 » Late Move Reductions
- Unordered moves phenomenon by Alvaro Cardoso, CCC, October 03, 2017 » Move Ordering
- Is chess still 99% tactics? by Alvaro Cardoso, CCC, January 11, 2018 » Tactics
External Links
- Alvaro Cardoso - YouTube
- Apresentação de Profound, software para jogar damas classicas, YouTube Video
References
- ↑ Jogo de Damas Clássicas - Checkers & Draughts Wiki
- ↑ Re: Board Representation. Any strong chess engine uses this method? by Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso, CCC, March 08, 2006
- ↑ João Guerra (2011). Classical Checkers. Masters thesis, Technical University of Lisbon, pdf, pp. 5
- ↑ Programas de Damas Clásicas (Galician)
- ↑ Ren Wu, Don Beal (2001). Fast, Memory-efficient Retrograde Algorithms. ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3