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Sergei S. Markoff, ^[2]
a Russian computer scientist, computer chess and games programmer. He is author of the chess program SmarThink ^{[3] [4]}. In 2003 Sergei introduced the Botvinnik-Markoff Extension ^[5]. Sergei working in Sberbank leading a workgroup that focused on development of bank AI/ML systems especially in the area of speech technologies.^[6].

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

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