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Joona Kiiski,
a Finnish software engineer with a Master's degree in physics from University of Jyväskylä, currently residing in California, helping to pioneer in autonomous mobility 1.
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Stockfish
In 2009, Joona Kiiski tweaked Tord Romstad's open source chess program Glaurung and called it Smaug 2 . The derivations of Glaurung, notably Stockfish by Marco Costalba and Smaug was controversial, and other chess programmers were annoyed with their original efforts over years 3 , while Tord Romstad appreciated the development with his understanding and interpretation of the open source idea in competitive computer chess. In 2009 they joint forces on Stockfish, Marco's initial branch of Glaurung's evolutionary tree 4.
See also
- Stockfish's Tuning Method 5
Forum Posts
- Smaug: a new chess engine based on glaurung by Joona Kiiski, CCC, March 12, 2009
- Stockfish's tuning method by Joona Kiiski, CCC, October 07, 2011 » Stockfish's Tuning Method
- Re: History pruning / move ordering question by Joona Kiiski, CCC, May 12, 2013 » Countermove Heuristic
External Links
- Joona Kiiski | LinkedIn
- Stockfish Chess Engine Home
- The chess games of Joona Kiiski from chessgames.com
- Computerschach, Interview with Tord Romstad (Norway), Joona Kiiski (Finland) and Marco Costalba (Italy) by Frank Quisinsky, March 29, 2010
- Stockfish 4 to play in the new season of TCEC | Chessdom - Short interview with the Stockfish team, August 22, 2013 » TCEC
- zamar · GitHub by Joona Kiiski
SPSA Tuner for Stockfish Chess Engine 6
- GitHub - lantonov/Rockstar: Implementation of ROCK* algorithm (Gaussian kernel regression + natural gradient descent) for optimisation by Lyudmil Antonov and Joona Kiiski » Rockstar
References
Smaug: a new chess engine based on glaurung by Joona Kiiski, CCC, March 12, 2009↩︎
Trusted testers wanted by Volker Annuss, CCC, May 05, 2009↩︎
Stockfish - Glaurung from WBEC-Ridderkerk forum, September, 2009↩︎
Stockfish's tuning method by Joona Kiiski, CCC, October 07, 2011↩︎