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Sergei S. Markoff 1
Sergei S. Markoff, 1
a Russian computer scientist, computer chess and games programmer. He is author of the chess program SmarThink 2 3. In 2003 Sergei introduced the Botvinnik-Markoff Extension 4. Sergei working in Sberbank leading a workgroup that focused on development of bank AI/ML systems especially in the area of speech technologies.5.
Forum Posts
2000 ...
- PASSED_PAWN_PUSH extension scheme (and SmarThink) by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, September 18, 2002 » Passed Pawn Extensions, SmarThink
- Markoff - Botvinnik - Kaissa - Hsu - ABC - Berliner by Walter Faxon, CCC, June 09, 2003
- The "same threat extension" as effective way to resolve horizon problem by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, October 01, 2003 » Botvinnik-Markoff Extension
- Forward pruning and some related techniques by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, March 02, 2004 » Pruning
- Search behavior in a case of root fail high/low by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, March 10, 2004 » Fail-High, Fail-Low, MTD(f)
- Forward/HB/Null move pruning ideas by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, September 25, 2004 » Pruning
- Authors of Kaissa on quiscence search by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, September 26, 2004 » Kaissa, Quiescence Search
2005 ...
- Secrets of Rybka and Fruit from my point of view by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, December 15, 2005 » Rybka, Fruit
- A way to improve PVS by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, September 07, 2009 » Principal Variation Search
2010 ...
- c# for chess engine by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, September 13, 2011 » C#
- Breadth-first search: revisiting by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, September 13, 2011
- Repetitions/50 moves and TT by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, September 13, 2011 » Repetitions, Fifty-move Rule, Transposition Table
- Probabilistic approach to optimize search tree by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, September 22, 2012
- PSQ tables depending on king sides, pawn patterns etc. by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, December 01, 2013 » Piece-Square tables
- Improved history heuristic by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, December 16, 2013 » History Heuristic
- Pruning in PV nodes by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, January 14, 2014 » Reductions, Root, Node Types
- Fail soft vs fail hard by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, February 15, 2014 » Fail-Soft, Fail-Hard, Fail-Low, Internal Iterative Deepening
2015 ...
- SmarThink v1.80 is available by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, January 02, 2016
- Re: txt: automated chess engine tuning by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, February 15, 2016 » Automated Tuning
- New SmarThink website by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, April 27, 2017
- Feed bayeselo with pure game results without PGN by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, March 08, 2018
- The Plan-9 to finally solve chess :) by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, May 11, 2019
- The mystery of Alex Bernstein by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, June 06, 2019 » Alex Bernstein
- Widely unknown pioneering chess "paper machine" by Gunter Sсhliebs by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, June 06, 2019
External Links
- Sergei S. Markoff homepage
- Sergei S. Markoff academia.edu page
- Sergei Markoff - Facebook
- SmarThink site
- SmarThink by Sergei Markoff, Russia - sdchesss.ru
- Sergei Markoff from mobygames
References
Due to different, but equally valid ways of transliterating Cyrillic, also Sergei Markov, see Markov number from Wikipedia↩︎
The "same threat extension" as effective way to resolve horizon problem, Sergei Markoff introduced the extension, CCC, October 01, 2003↩︎