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As [[Stockfish]] contributor, Gary Linscott is primary author of the Stockfish [[Stockfish#TestingFramework|Testing Framework]] dubbed '''Fishtest''', a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home SETI@home] kind of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_computing volunteer computing]
 
As [[Stockfish]] contributor, Gary Linscott is primary author of the Stockfish [[Stockfish#TestingFramework|Testing Framework]] dubbed '''Fishtest''', a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home SETI@home] kind of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_computing volunteer computing]
 
mainly written in [[Python]] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47407 Beta for Stockfish distributed testing] by [[Gary Linscott|Gary]], [[CCC]], March 05, 2013</ref> <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47885 Fishtest Distributed Testing Framework] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], May 01, 2013</ref> under the ''Pyramid Application Development Framework'' <ref>[https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/latest/ The Pyramid Web Framework — The Pyramid Web Framework]</ref>.
 
mainly written in [[Python]] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47407 Beta for Stockfish distributed testing] by [[Gary Linscott|Gary]], [[CCC]], March 05, 2013</ref> <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47885 Fishtest Distributed Testing Framework] by [[Marco Costalba]], [[CCC]], May 01, 2013</ref> under the ''Pyramid Application Development Framework'' <ref>[https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/latest/ The Pyramid Web Framework — The Pyramid Web Framework]</ref>.
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=Leela Chess Zero=
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Gary Linscott initiated and announced the distributed [[Leela Chess Zero]] project in early 2018 <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66280 Announcing lczero] by [[Gary Linscott|Gary]], [[CCC]], January 09, 2018</ref>. It is an adaption of [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto|Gian-Carlo Pascutto's]] [[Leela Zero]] [[Go]] project, soon evolving to a strong chess playing entity following the same type of [[Deep Learning|deep learning]] along with [[Monte-Carlo Tree Search|Monte-Carlo tree search]] (MCTS) techniques of [[AlphaZero]] as described in [[DeepMind|DeepMind's]] 2017 and 2018 papers
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<ref>[[David Silver]], [[Thomas Hubert]], [[Julian Schrittwieser]], [[Ioannis Antonoglou]], [[Matthew Lai]], [[Arthur Guez]], [[Marc Lanctot]], [[Laurent Sifre]], [[Dharshan Kumaran]], [[Thore Graepel]], [[Timothy Lillicrap]], [[Karen Simonyan]], [[Demis Hassabis]] ('''2017'''). ''Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01815 arXiv:1712.01815]</ref>
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<ref>[[David Silver]], [[Thomas Hubert]], [[Julian Schrittwieser]], [[Ioannis Antonoglou]], [[Matthew Lai]], [[Arthur Guez]], [[Marc Lanctot]], [[Laurent Sifre]], [[Dharshan Kumaran]], [[Thore Graepel]], [[Timothy Lillicrap]], [[Karen Simonyan]], [[Demis Hassabis]] ('''2018'''). ''[http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6419/1140 A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go through self-play]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_(journal) Science], Vol. 362, No. 6419</ref>, but using distributed training for the weights of the [[Neural Networks#Deep|deep]] [[Neural Networks#Convolutional|convolutional neural network]].
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=PyTorch NNUE=
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With the advent of [[Stockfish NNUE]] in 2020, Gary Linscott started an implementation of the [[Stockfish]] [[NNUE]] training in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyTorch PyTorch] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=75724 Pytorch NNUE training] by [[Gary Linscott]], [[CCC]], November 08, 2020</ref> <ref>[https://github.com/glinscott/nnue-pytorch GitHub - glinscott/nnue-pytorch: NNUE (Chess evaluation) trainer in Pytorch]</ref>.
  
 
=Forum Posts=
 
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==2010 ...==
 
==2010 ...==
 
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=332081 Ajax chess] by [[Gary Linscott|Gary]], [[CCC]], February 20, 2010 » [[Garbochess-JS]]
 
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=332081 Ajax chess] by [[Gary Linscott|Gary]], [[CCC]], February 20, 2010 » [[Garbochess-JS]]
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* [http://rybkaforum.net/cgi-bin/rybkaforum/topic_show.pl?tid=15663 Javascript chess engine] by [[Gary Linscott|gladius]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Rybka Forum]], February 23, 2010
 
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=453708 Undefended pieces] by [[Gary Linscott|Gary]], [[CCC]], March 05, 2012 » [[Loose Piece]]
 
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=453708 Undefended pieces] by [[Gary Linscott|Gary]], [[CCC]], March 05, 2012 » [[Loose Piece]]
 
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=454327 CLOP on Stockfish] by [[Gary Linscott|Gary]], [[CCC]], March 10, 2012 » [[CLOP]], [[Stockfish]]
 
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=454327 CLOP on Stockfish] by [[Gary Linscott|Gary]], [[CCC]], March 10, 2012 » [[CLOP]], [[Stockfish]]
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* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=54360 New Stockfish dev +Syzygy compiles by Gary Linscott] by [[Ernest Bonnem]], [[CCC]], November 16, 2014 » [[Stockfish]], [[Syzygy Bases]]
 
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=54360 New Stockfish dev +Syzygy compiles by Gary Linscott] by [[Ernest Bonnem]], [[CCC]], November 16, 2014 » [[Stockfish]], [[Syzygy Bases]]
 
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* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66280 Announcing lczero] by [[Gary Linscott|Gary]], [[CCC]], January 09, 2018 » [[Leela Chess Zero]]
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* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=55390&start=10 Re: Why is SF6 so much stronger?] by [[Gary Linscott|Gary]], [[CCC]], February 19, 2015 » [[Stockfish]]
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* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=66062&start=3 Re: AlphaZero Chess is not that strong ...] by [[Gary Linscott|Gary]], [[CCC]], December 19, 2017 » [[AlphaZero]]
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* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66280 Announcing lczero] by [[Gary Linscott|Gary]], [[CCC]], January 09, 2018 » [[Leela Chess Zero|LCZero]]
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* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66452 LCZero is learning] by [[Gary Linscott|Gary]], [[CCC]], January 30, 2018
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* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66824 LCZero update] by [[Gary Linscott|Gary]], [[CCC]], March 14, 2018
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* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=67087 LCZero on 10x128 now] by [[Gary Linscott|Gary]], [[CCC]], April 12, 2018
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* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=75247&start=74 Re: A Crossroad in Computer Chess; Or Desperate Flailing for Relevance] by [[Gary Linscott]], [[CCC]], September 30, 2020 » [[NNUE]]
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* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=75724 Pytorch NNUE training] by [[Gary Linscott]], [[CCC]], November 08, 2020 » [[NNUE]] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyTorch PyTorch from Wikipedia]</ref>
  
 
=External Links=
 
=External Links=
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* [https://twitter.com/garylinscott Gary Linscott (@garylinscott) | Twitter]
 
* [https://twitter.com/garylinscott Gary Linscott (@garylinscott) | Twitter]
 
* [http://queensjournal.ca/story/2005-05-24/news/computer-programmer-wins-big/ Computer programmer wins big] by [http://queensjournal.ca/author/janet-shulist/ Janet Shulist], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen%27s_Journal Queen's Journal], May 24, 2005
 
* [http://queensjournal.ca/story/2005-05-24/news/computer-programmer-wins-big/ Computer programmer wins big] by [http://queensjournal.ca/author/janet-shulist/ Janet Shulist], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen%27s_Journal Queen's Journal], May 24, 2005
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* [https://en.chessbase.com/post/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants Standing on the shoulders of giants] by [[Albert Silver]], [[ChessBase|ChessBase News]], September 18, 2019
  
 
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Latest revision as of 10:56, 22 June 2021

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Gary Linscott [1]

Gary Linscott,
an American computer scientist actually residing in the San Francisco Bay Area working in the autonomous mobility industry [2]. He graduated in 2005 from Queen's University [3], Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and was former Microsoft employee, where he worked on Expression Blend from 2005 until 2011. He has been interested in game playing algorithms, 3D graphics programming applying OpenGL and Direct3D, and data compression and image compression utilizing Daubechies wavelets. His interests include HTML5, JavaScript, and Node.js. He is author of multiple game playing and puzzle programs for various target platforms, beside others, the Go playing program ThinkGo for Windows Phone 7, the open source Othello program Cascade, and a Nine Men’s Morris program.

Garbochess

Gary Linscott is author of the open source chess engines and applications Garbochess and Garbochess-JS, the C# version also incorporated into Microsoft's Silverlight Chess [4] for the Silverlight framework.

Fishtest

As Stockfish contributor, Gary Linscott is primary author of the Stockfish Testing Framework dubbed Fishtest, a SETI@home kind of volunteer computing mainly written in Python [5] [6] under the Pyramid Application Development Framework [7].

Leela Chess Zero

Gary Linscott initiated and announced the distributed Leela Chess Zero project in early 2018 [8]. It is an adaption of Gian-Carlo Pascutto's Leela Zero Go project, soon evolving to a strong chess playing entity following the same type of deep learning along with Monte-Carlo tree search (MCTS) techniques of AlphaZero as described in DeepMind's 2017 and 2018 papers [9] [10], but using distributed training for the weights of the deep convolutional neural network.

PyTorch NNUE

With the advent of Stockfish NNUE in 2020, Gary Linscott started an implementation of the Stockfish NNUE training in PyTorch [11] [12].

Forum Posts

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2020 ...

External Links

GitHub - glinscott/Stockfish: UCI chess engine
GitHub - glinscott/fishtest: Stockfish testing
GitHub - glinscott/Garbochess-JS: A strong javascript chess engine using WebWorkers
GitHub - glinscott/Garbochess-3: Garbochess for the PC
GitHub - glinscott/leela-chess: A chess adaption of GCP's Leela Zero

References

  1. ↑ Gary Linscott (@garylinscott) | Twitter
  2. ↑ Gary Linscott | LinkedIn
  3. ↑ Computer programmer wins big by Janet Shulist, Queen's Journal, May 24, 2005
  4. ↑ Re: Microsoft Silverlight Chess by Gary, CCC, October 01, 2007
  5. ↑ Beta for Stockfish distributed testing by Gary, CCC, March 05, 2013
  6. ↑ Fishtest Distributed Testing Framework by Marco Costalba, CCC, May 01, 2013
  7. ↑ The Pyramid Web Framework — The Pyramid Web Framework
  8. ↑ Announcing lczero by Gary, CCC, January 09, 2018
  9. ↑ David Silver, Thomas Hubert, Julian Schrittwieser, Ioannis Antonoglou, Matthew Lai, Arthur Guez, Marc Lanctot, Laurent Sifre, Dharshan Kumaran, Thore Graepel, Timothy Lillicrap, Karen Simonyan, Demis Hassabis (2017). Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm. arXiv:1712.01815
  10. ↑ David Silver, Thomas Hubert, Julian Schrittwieser, Ioannis Antonoglou, Matthew Lai, Arthur Guez, Marc Lanctot, Laurent Sifre, Dharshan Kumaran, Thore Graepel, Timothy Lillicrap, Karen Simonyan, Demis Hassabis (2018). A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go through self-play. Science, Vol. 362, No. 6419
  11. ↑ Pytorch NNUE training by Gary Linscott, CCC, November 08, 2020
  12. ↑ GitHub - glinscott/nnue-pytorch: NNUE (Chess evaluation) trainer in Pytorch
  13. ↑ PyTorch from Wikipedia

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