Tord+Romstad

a Norwegian chess and games programmer, author of the open source chess programs Glaurung, also available as iPhone chess program and since February 2014 as chess AI of Play Magnus , the didactic parallel search engine Viper , the former Gothmog, and the [|hexagonal chess] program //Scatha//. Tord has also some interests in Shogi programming. In 2009 Tord joint forces with Marco Costalba and Joona Kiiski on Marco's initial branch of Glaurung's evolutionary tree called Stockfish. || toc =Photos=
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 * [[image:TordTV.jpg]] ||~ || **Tord Kallqvist Romstad**,
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 * Winners Chess960CWC 2005: Tord Romstad, Johannes Zwanzger, Volker Böhm and Ralf Schäfer ||

=Forum Posts=

2000 ...

 * [|Mixing alpha-beta with PN search] by Tord Romstad, CCC, January 18, 2004 » Alpha-Beta, Proof-Number Search
 * [|Two questions for bitboard experts] by Tord Romstad, Winboard Forum, November 06, 2004 » Bitboards, In Between, Piece-Lists

2005 ...

 * [|Reductions and null move refutations] by Tord Romstad, Winboard Forum, April 18, 2005 » Late Move Reductions, Null Move Pruning
 * [|A plea to all computer chess enthusiasts (absurdly long)] by Tord Romstad, CCC, February 08, 2006
 * [|Bitboard question] by Tord Romstad, Winboard Forum, March 14, 2006 » Bitboards
 * [|Speedup with bitboards on 64-bit CPUs] by Tord Romstad, CCC, April 27, 2007
 * [|The Art of Evaluation] by Tord Romstad, CCC, August 2, 2007 » Evaluation Philosophy
 * [|SEE problem] by Tord Romstad, CCC, April 13, 2008 » Static Exchange Evaluation
 * [|Artificial stupidity - making a program play badly] by Tord Romstad, CCC, May 20, 2008

2010 ...

 * [|Revolutionizing handheld chess: Glaurung 2 for the iPhone] by Tord Romstad, CCC, July 02, 2010
 * [|Re: Play Magnus: official App with Chess Engine] by Tord Romstad, CCC, February 26, 2014 » Play Magnus
 * [|Reactions about AlphaZero from top GMs...] by Norman Schmidt, CCC, December 08, 2017 » Reactions From Top GMs, Stockfish Author

=External Links= > media type="youtube" key="R0L3AuJUkk0"
 * [|glaurungchess.com]
 * [|Stockfish Chess Engine Home]
 * [|Computerschach, Interview with Tord Romstad (Norway), Joona Kiiski (Finland) and Marco Costalba (Italy)] by Frank Quisinsky, March 29, 2010
 * [|Sjakk-VM 23. november], [|dbtv.no],  Tord Romstad from 45:35 (Norwegian)
 * [|Parallelism and Selectivity in Game Tree Search] by Tord Romstad, [|TNG | Big Techday 8], June 12, 2015, [|YouTube] Video

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