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Vlad Stamate,
an American computer scientist, software and game developer with Romanian roots. He studied at Politehnica University of Bucharest and graduated in CS with a B.Sc. degree in graphic design from Richmond, The American International University in London in 2001. Actually affiliated with Apple, Vlad Stamate worked in the R&D department of Sony Computer Entertainment America, leading the GPU performance analysis software team for the Playstation 3 console, and as an engineer for Imagination Technologies taking part in developing OpenGL Linux drivers ^[1]. He has published various articles of the advanced rendering techniques book project ShaderX ^[2], and started chess programming in 2006 on a program called ps3chess, followed by ps3chess2, fastthink and in January 2009, Plisk ^[3].

Forum Posts

2009

• Incremental Zobrist - slow? by Vlad Stamate, CCC, June 20, 2009 » Incremental Updates, Zobrist Hashing
• Killer moves (ply or depth?) by Vlad Stamate, CCC, July 22, 2009 » Killer Heuristic
• Single legal move - what to do? by Vlad Stamate, CCC, August 12, 2009 » One Reply Extensions
• Generating "through" attacks with rotated bitboard by Vlad Stamate, CCC, August 28, 2009 » Rotated Bitboards, X-ray Attacks (Bitboards)
• Finding mate fast by Vlad Stamate, CCC, September 04, 2009

2010 ...

• XBoard and epd tournament by Vlad Stamate, CCC, January 31, 2010 » Chess Engine Communication Protocol, Engine Testing
• Standpat and check by Vlad Stamate, CCC, February 06, 2010 » Standing Pat, Check
• TT hit/miss rates by Vlad Stamate, CCC, February 25, 2010 » Transposition Table
• Zero window TT entry by Vlad Stamate, CCC, March 05, 2010 » Null Window
• Long game vs short game testing by Vlad Stamate, CCC, April 08, 2010 » Engine Testing
• Ponder console input move problem by Vlad Stamate, CCC, April 28, 2010 » Pondering
• Opening book formats and UIs by Vlad Stamate, CCC, June 08, 2010 » Opening Book
• Abusing a chess program by Vlad Stamate, CCC, July 14, 2010
• WCRCC 2010 - Plisk games by Vlad Stamate, CCC, July 17, 2010 » WCRCC 2010
• New rating system research by Vlad Stamate, CCC, August 05, 2010
• 2011 ACCA Pan American CCC - Plisk games by Vlad Stamate, CCC, November 12, 2011 » ACCA 2011

External Links

• Vlad Stamate | LinkedIn

References

1. ^ ShaderX6 Programming - About the Authors
2. ^ ShaderX3 Programming - About the Authors
3. ^ PliskChess - History

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