Alexandru Moșoi, a Romanian computer scientist, software engineer, and proponent of free and open source software, actually residing in Zurich working for Google Switzerland. He holds a M.Sc. degree from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2011 on the topic of distibuted SAT solving [1], and was affiliated with Politehnica University of Bucharest. Beside multiple other open source programs and projects, he is author of Chile, a compression program based on Burrows-Wheeler transform [2], the Conflict-Driven Clause Learning Sat Solver Gasca [3], the UCI compliant open source chess engine and chess library Zurichess [4] written in Go [5], and txt, which applies Texel's tuning method by Peter Österlund to optimize any UCI complaint chess engine, also written in Go [6].
Alexandru Moșoi [7]

Selected Publications

• Alexandru Moșoi (2011). STRUCTure: Towards a Distibuted Boolean Satifibiality Solver. M.Sc. thesis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Forum Posts

2015

• zurichess - new chess engine by Alexandru Mosoi, CCC, January 16, 2015
• Perft for various positions by Alexandru Mosoi, CCC, January 17, 2015 » Perft, Perft Results
• txt: automated chess engine tuning by Alexandru Mosoi, CCC, March 18, 2015 » Texel's Tuning Method
• Most common/top evaluation features? by Alexandru Mosoi, CCC, April 10, 2015
• Fractional plies and transposition tables by Alexandru Mosoi, CCC, April 18, 2015 » Depth - Fractional Plies, Transposition Table
• Getting SPRT right by Alexandru Mosoi, CCC, April 22, 2015 » SPRT
• ponder engine-gui interaction by Alexandru Mosoi, CCC, June 25, 2015 » Pondering, UCI
• computing elo of multiple chess engines by Alexandru Mosoi, CCC, August 09, 2015 » Match Statistics
• td-leaf by Alexandru Mosoi, CCC, October 06, 2015 » Automated Tuning, Temporal Difference Learning

2016

• king shelter - when and how? by Alexandru Mosoi, CCC, March 21, 2016 » King Safety
• king safety: hard positions for zurichess by Alexandru Mosoi, CCC, March 27, 2016 » Test-Positions, Zurichess
• is phase a good indicator of game progress? by Alexandru Mosoi, June 23, 2016 » Game Phases, Tapered Eval
• New killer idea by Alexandru Mosoi, CCC, August 28, 2016 » Move Ordering, Killer Heuristic
• draw endgame scaling by Alexandru Mosoi, CCC, December 04, 2016 » Draw Evaluation

2017

• improved evaluation function by Alexandru Mosoi, CCC, March 11, 2017 » Texel's Tuning Method
• speed up or avoiding move sorting by Alexandru Mosoi, CCC, March 19, 2017 » Move Ordering
• Is expensive eval required for QS? by Alexandru Mosoi, CCC, July 21, 2017 » Lazy Evaluation, Quiescence Search
• understanding DTZ by Alexandru Mosoi, CCC, October 06, 2017 » DTZ, Syzygy Bases, Fathom
• need some help assessing the evaluation by Alexandru Mosoi, CCC, December 02, 2017

External Links

• www.alexandru
• Next Thought
• Alexandru Moșoi – Google+
• brtzsnr (Alexandru Moșoi) · GitHub
• brtzsnr — Bitbucket
• Alexandru Moșoi - Quora

References

1. ^ Alexandru Moșoi (2011). STRUCTure: Towards a Distibuted Boolean Satifibiality Solver. M.Sc. thesis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2. ^ Chile - www.alexandru
3. ^ Next Thought: Gasca (yet another CDCL sat solver)
4. ^ Zurich German (Züritüütsch) from Wikipedia
5. ^ brtzsnr / zurichess — Bitbucket
6. ^ brtzsnr / txt — Bitbucket by Alexandru Mosoi
7. ^ brtzsnr (Alexandru Moșoi) · GitHub

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