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from the Philippines, author of the chess engine Twisted Logic, and along with Sam Hamilton, co-author of Hannibal. Edsel Apostol, born in May 31, 1984, is a graduate of BS Computer Engineering. He started on his hobby in computer chess programming on the late part of 2004 when he was fascinated by chess playing programs and how they beat him. He then studied the theories on computer chess programming and started to write his first program using the 0x88 method. He had three rewrite of this and in May 2005 finally adapted rotated bitboards. In May 2007, he started working on a complete rewrite using the magic bitboards method.
 * Edsel G. Apostol**,

=Occupation= Edsel has worked as a College Professor for two semesters before deciding to pursue a career in game development. He is currently employed as a Software Engineer in the Philippine's pioneer Game Development Company, [|Anino Games, Inc.].

=Talking Chess Programming= Edsel has been a member here at the Chess Programming Wiki since October 2007 and is an active member at the Winboard Forum and CCC (Talkchess).

=Forum Posts=

2008 ...

 * [|Toga/Glaurung/Strelka Prunings/Reductions] by Edsel Apostol, CCC, January 31, 2008 » Toga, Glaurung, Strelka, Pruning, Reductions
 * [|Material Tables and Indexing] by Edsel Apostol, CCC, April 14, 2008 » Material Tables
 * [|Re: extensions] by Edsel Apostol, Winboard Forum, August 27, 2008 » Recapture Extensions
 * [|Eval Dilemma] by Edsel Apostol, CCC, April 03, 2009 » Evaluation
 * [|Alternatives to History Heuristics] by Edsel Apostol, CCC, September 01, 2009 » History Heuristic

2010 ...

 * [|Twisted Logic 20100131x] by Edsel Apostol, CCC, February 02, 2010
 * [|Hannibal 1.0] by Edsel Apostol, CCC, July 17, 2010
 * [|Reducing/Pruning Bad Captures (SEE < 0)] by Edsel Apostol, CCC, August 19, 2011 » Pruning, Reductions, Captures, SEE
 * [|SMP and questions] by Edsel Apostol, CCC, November 23, 2012 » Parallel Search
 * [|Measure of SMP scalability] by Edsel Apostol, CCC, July 03, 2013

2015 ...

 * [|NUMA in a YBWC implementation] by Edsel Apostol, CCC, July 20, 2016 » NUMA, Young Brothers Wait Concept

=External Links=
 * [|Chess Engine Portal]
 * [|Computerschach, Interview with Edsel Apostol] by Frank Quisinsky, February 25, 2010

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