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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.
 * Marco Costalba**,

=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 ...

 * [|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
 * 2009**
 * [|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 ...

 * [|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
 * 2011**
 * [|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
 * 2012**
 * [|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
 * 2013**
 * [|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
 * 2014**
 * [|Stockfish 5] by Marco Costalba, CCC, May 31, 2014 » TCEC Season 6

2015 ...

 * [|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
 * 2016**
 * [|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
 * 2017**
 * [|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
 * 2018**
 * [|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=
 * [|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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