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a Finnish software developer who tweaked Tord Romstad's open source chess program Glaurung and called it Smaug. The derivations of Glaurung, notably Stockfish by Marco Costalba and //Smaug// was controversial, and other chess programmers were annoyed with their original efforts over years, while Tord Romstad appreciated the development with his understanding and interpretation of the [|open source] idea in competitive computer chess. In 2009 they joint forces on Stockfish, Marco's initial branch of Glaurung's evolutionary tree.
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=See also=
 * Stockfish's tuning method

=Forum Posts=
 * [|Smaug: a new chess engine based on glaurung] by Joona Kiiski, CCC, March 12, 2009
 * [|Stockfish's tuning method] by Joona Kiiski, CCC, October 07, 2011 » Stockfish's tuning method
 * [|Re: History pruning / move ordering question] by Joona Kiiski, CCC, May 12, 2013 » Countermove Heuristic

=External Links= > [|SPSA Tuner for Stockfish Chess Engine]
 * [|Stockfish Chess Engine Home]
 * [|The chess games of Joona Kiiski] from [|chessgames.com]
 * [|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
 * [|zamar · GitHub] by Joona Kiiski
 * [|GitHub - lantonov/Rockstar: Implementation of ROCK* algorithm (Gaussian kernel regression + natural gradient descent) for optimisation] by Lyudmil Antonov and Joona Kiiski » Rockstar

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