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Álvaro Begué,
a Spanish computer checkers, computer go and computer chess programmer with expertise in machine learning and automated tuning, along with José Manuel Morán co-author of the Spanish Checkers [1] program Torquemada [2] [3] and the chess program Ruy Lopez. Along with John Tromp, he is co-author of the Go playing program Dimwit [4].
Since 2013, Álvaro is in the process to write a new chess engine [5]. In November 2016, he published the open source tuning code RuyTune, an instance of a logistic regression performing limited-memory BFGS along with reverse-mode automatic differentiation [6] [7], and in June 2017 he published the open source engine RuyDos [8], co-authored by José Manuel Morán [9].
Photos & Games
WCCC 2003, The Ruy Lopez team that beat reigning champion Junior in round one [10] [11]
See also
Forum Posts
2013 …
- Parallel search: System-level programming details by Álvaro Begué, CCC, February 09, 2013 » Parallel Search
- Suggestions for a sparring partner by Álvaro Begué, CCC, February 19, 2013
- Re: How Do You Automatically Tune Your Evaluation Tables by Álvaro Begué, CCC, January 08, 2014 » Automated Tuning, Texel’s Tuning Method
- Re: Calculating the LOS (likelihood of superiority) from results by Álvaro Begué, CCC, January 22, 2014 » Match Statistics - Sample Program
2015 …
- A database for learning evaluation functions by Álvaro Begué, CCC, October 28, 2016 » Automated Tuning, Evaluation, Learning, Texel’s Tuning Method
- C++ code for tuning evaluation function parameters by Álvaro Begué, CCC, November 10, 2016
- BMI2 intrinsics in gcc by Álvaro Begué, CCC, May 14, 2017 » BMI2
- RuyDos publicly available by Álvaro Begué, CCC, June 01, 2017
- Testing endgame strength by Álvaro Begué, CCC, June 21, 2017 » Engine Testing, Endgame
- 3 million games for training neural networks by Álvaro Begué, CCC, February 24, 2018
2020 …
- Re: Idea: use range (evalMin - evalMax) for position evaluation by Álvaro Begué, LCZero Forum, May 28, 2021 [12]
External Links
- Álvaro Begué’s ICGA Tournaments
- Computer-go.info - Details of Programmer: Begué, Álvaro
- alonamaloh — Bitbucket
alonamaloh / RuyDos — Bitbucket References
- ↑ Spanish Checkers | Board Game | BoardGameGeek
- ↑ Ruy Lopez’ ICGA Tournaments
- ↑ Antonio de Torquemada from Wikipedia
- ↑ Computer-go.info - Details of Program: Dimwit
- ↑ Suggestions for a sparring partner by Álvaro Begué, CCC, February 19, 2013
- ↑ C++ code for tuning evaluation function parameters by Álvaro Begué, CCC, November 10, 2016
- ↑ alonamaloh / ruy_tune — Bitbucket
- ↑ RuyDos publicly available by Álvaro Begué, CCC, June 01, 2017
- ↑ alonamaloh / RuyDos / source / LICENSE — Bitbucket
- ↑ Álvaro Begué (left) and José Manuel Morán at WCCC 2003, from Chess in a cave – live from Graz, ChessBase News, November, 23, 2003
- ↑ Graz 2003 - Chess - Round 1 - Game 2 (ICGA Tournaments)
- ↑ Eric B. Baum, Warren D. Smith (1999). Propagating Distributions Up Directed Acyclic Graphs. Neural Computation, Vol. 11, No. 1