Acknowledgements

First of all i must thank all the people on the forum Talk Chess, Open Chess and Giocare a scacchi that have been a source of inspiration and encouragement to continue to invest my free time in this wonderful passion. In particular Robert Hyatt, Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, Richard Vida, Miguel Ballicora for their beautiful engines Crafty, Stockfish, Critter and Gaviota. Without their support and ideas i'd never been able to get decent results. Also a big thank goes to Norman Schmidt for the great Fire. Finally, a thanks to the people who are behind the project Ippolit, Robbolito and Ivanhoe.

Last, but only for reasons of time, a huge thanks to Maurizio Platino who joined as a beta-tester in this crazy idea and has already made a huge contribution that you can see with the next versions of the engine.

For those who are curious to know what's behind a chess engine I invite you to visit the most complete site for the chess engine programming.

Matteo D'Annibale