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[ Gothmog at the Storming of Gondolin [1] [2] Gothmog,

a Chess Engine Communication Protocol and UCI compliant chess engine by Tord Romstad. Gothmog was a MTD(f) searcher [3] , and according to its self-critical author seemed to have degenerated into a highly complicated random move generator [4] , which further was big, horrendously complicated, buggy, and has almost completely unreadable source code. In 2004, Tord almost resigned to continue working on Gothmog in favour to his new engine Glaurung [5].

See also#

• Glaurung
• Morgoth

Forum Posts#

• Serious bug in Gothmog 0.2.6! by Tord Romstad, Winboard Forum, August 04, 2003 [6]
• Gothmog 0.3.0 by Tord Romstad, Winboard Forum, September 07, 2003
• Gothmog 0.4.2, and an incredible SmarThink result by Tord Romstad, Winboard Forum, December 18, 2003
• How to beat Gothmog by Anthony Cozzie, CCC, January 08, 2004
• Gothmog 0.4.5 released by Tord Romstad, Winboard Forum, January 11, 2004
• Gothmog 0.4.6 available by Tord Romstad, Winboard Forum, March 07, 2004
• Gothmog 0.4.7 by Tord Romstad, Winboard Forum, March 17, 2004
• Gothmog goes commercial by Matthias Gemuh, CCC, April 02, 2004
• Gothmog 0.4.8 by Tord Romstad, Winboard Forum, May 17, 2004
• What’s the difference between Glaurung and Gothmog? by Paul Bedrey, CCC, March 01, 2005
• Gothmog 1.0 beta 13 FRC (Linux and OS X only) by Tord Romstad, Winboard Forum, August 02, 2005

External Links#

Chess Engine#

• Computer Chess Wiki - Engine Download List hosted by Ron Murawski

Misc#

• Gothmog | Individual Balrogs | Balrog from Wikipedia
• Gothmog - Lord of the Rings Wiki
• Gothmog (Third Age) from Wikipedia
• Gothmog (Lieutenant of Morgul) - Lord of the Rings Wiki
• Gothmog (Lieutenant of Morgul) - Tolkien Gateway

References#

1. ↑ Gothmog, Lord of the Balrogs, riding a dragon, illustration by Tom Loback
2. ↑ Fall of Gondolin from Wikipedia
3. ↑ Re: What’s the difference between Glaurung and Gothmog? by Tord Romstad, CCC, March 02, 2005
4. ↑ Re: Gothmog 1.0b2 vs Fruit 1.5 ended 15.5 to 14.5 Long Post by Tord Romstad, CCC, June 08, 2004
5. ↑ Re: What’s the difference between Glaurung and Gothmog? by Tord Romstad, CCC, March 02, 2005
6. ↑ Re: Unexpected problem with futility pruning? by Tord Romstad, CCC, December 29, 2003

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