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Richard Vida,

a Slovakian software developer, consultant, computer chess programmer and author of the strong UCI compatible chess engine Critter, first written in Object Pascal compiled with Delphi [1] and in 2009 ported to C [2]. In January 2013, Richard released a compressed binary of a single threaded engine dubbed Robodini [3], compiled from sources from his re-engineering attempts of Houdini 3 - to win a bet to prove that he could do it within a few weeks and the RobboLito code-base available [4].

2009#

• Critter: Pascal vs C by Richard Vida, CCC, August 27, 2009 » C, Pascal
• Re: talk about IPP’s evaluation by Richard Vida, CCC, November 07, 2009 » Tapered Eval, Ippolit, SIMD and SWAR Techniques

2010#

• Strange knight underpromotion by Critter by Richard Vida, CCC, March 04, 2010 » Minor Promotion
• Re: root move ordering by Richard Vida, CCC, July 02, 2010 » Root, Move Ordering

2011#

• Re: Why are the Ippo derivative stronger than Stockfish? by Richard Vida, CCC, 25 February, 2011
• My experience with Linux/GCC by Richard Vida, CCC, March 23, 2011 » C, Linux
• About PSQ tables by Richard Vida, Rybka Forum, August 15, 2011 » Piece-Square tables
• for Pascal fans: Critter by Richard Vida, CCC, September 16, 2011
• Re: Komodo 4 on long time control by Richard Vida, CCC, December 04, 2011 » Houdini, Komodo

2012#

• Re: World Computer Chess Championship ? by Richard Vida, CCC, June 11, 2012

2013#

• Robodini Q&A by Richard Vida, CCC, January 30, 2013
• R.V. about Rybka 1.0 beta vs Fruit 2.1 by Richard Vida, Rybka Forum, August 11, 2013 » Rybka Controversy

External Links#

• Interview with Richard Vida by Frank Quisinsky, February 20, 2010
• Critter for win32/64, linux and android platforms hosted by Emil Vlasák » Linux, Android

References#

1. ↑ SourceForge.net: Critter Chess - Project Web Hosting - Open Source Software
2. ↑ Critter: Pascal vs C by Richard Vida, CCC, August 27, 2009
3. ↑ Robodini by Don Dailey, CCC, January 29, 2013
4. ↑ Robodini Q&A by Richard Vida, CCC, January 30, 2013

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