Miguel+A.+Ballicora

an Argentinean Biochemist and Assistant Chair at [|Loyola University Chicago] with a Ph.D. from [|Leloir Institute], [|University of Buenos Aires], [|Argentina], later Postdoctoral and Assistant Professor (Research) at Michigan State University. His current research focuses on the [|enzymes] of [|glycogenesis] in [|bacteria], and [|starch] in plants, with a particular interest in their [|molecular evolution].
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Miguel is [|FIDE Master] in over the board chess, and as chess programmer author of the chess engine Gaviota, which supports both the Chess Engine Communication Protocol and UCI and is able to generate and use its own endgame tablebases, Gaviota tablebases. Gaviota's EGTB code has been released under the liberal MIT license, therefor basically anybody can use it with almost no restrictions. He is further author of Ordo, a program to calculate ratings of individual chess engines (or players) with similar goals as [|Elo], but a different model and algorithm. || toc =See also=
 * Miguel A. Ballicora ||~  ||^   ||
 * Gaviota
 * Gaviota Tablebases
 * Ordo
 * Rybka Controversy - Litmus Test
 * Texel's Tuning Method

=Selected Publications=
 * Miguel A. Ballicora, [|Jennifer R. Dubay], [|Claire H. Devillers], [|Jack Preiss] (**2005**). //[|Resurrecting the Ancestral Enzymatic Role of a Modulatory Subunit]//. [|Journal of Biological Chemistry], Vol. 280, No. 11
 * Miguel A. Ballicora (**2014**). //ORDO v0.9.6 Ratings for chess and other games//. September 2014, [|pdf]

=Forum Posts=

2000 ...

 * [|Hash table efficiency] by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, December 05, 2000 » Transposition Table, Search Statistics
 * [|Simple Learning Technique and Random Play] by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, January 18, 2001 » Search with Random Leaf Values, Persistent Hash Table
 * [|New Winboard Engine] by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, January 20, 2001
 * [|Limited singular extensions. Anybody tried?] by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, May 18, 2001 » Singular Extensions
 * [|Gaviota - FM Miguel A. Ballicora - live at ICC in 1 hour] by Peter Berger, CCC, March 24, 2002
 * [|Great article for people who wants to write a chess engine] by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, April 03, 2002

2005 ...
> [|Re: Insanity... or Tal style?] by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, April 02, 2009 » Automated Tuning
 * [| Move ordering: Delaying moves on the history phase] by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, May 13, 2008 » Move ordering
 * [|Insanity... or Tal style?] by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, April 01, 2009
 * [|Yet another bitboard attack generator] by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, October 28, 2009 » Bitboards, Sliding Piece Attacks

2010 ...

 * [|Gaviota tablebases, Probing Code Release (Finally)] by Miguel A. Ballicora, Winboard Forum, February 10, 2010
 * [|Aquarium (other GUIs too?) and WB support => I am shocked] by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, February 27, 2010
 * [|SMP speed up] by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, September 14, 2010 » Parallel Search
 * [|Ordo release (rating software, ELO-like)] by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, January 11, 2012
 * [|UCI, ownbooks, and a potential problem] by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, June 16, 2014 » UCI, Opening Book
 * [|Ordo 0.9.6] by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, September 10, 2014

2015 ...

 * [|Ordo 1.0.9 (new features for testers)] by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, January 25, 2016
 * [|Ordoprep 0.8] by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, February 28, 2016

=External Links= > [|Ordo] » Match Statistics
 * [|Miguel A. Ballicora - Assistant Chair - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry - Loyola University Chicago]
 * [|Enzyme Resurrection — JBC]
 * [|Scientific Commons: Miguel A. Ballicora]
 * [|Gaviota Home]
 * [|Interview with Miguel Ballicora] by Michael Diosi, [|Free chess graphical user interface (GUI) Arena for chess engines], December 2010
 * [|Interview with Miguel Ballicora | Chessdom], February 23, 2013

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