Mr. Marco Costalba

[pferd]

Hi guy,

if been following Stockrfish ever since 2009. Does anybody know what Marco Costalba, the genius behind Stockfish, is doing right now? Havent't head of him since he transfered ownership of Stockfish...

Is he alright. Has he moved on from computerchess?

Kind Regards

[purechess]

He left 2014 because of the "annoying discussions" in the chess engine scene.

Read

https://groups.google.com/g/fishcooking/c/VsYuyij6uqQ

[Michel]

Sadly many of those “annoying discussions” were caused by him. I still have a copy somewhere of the vicious post he made after I submitted my first patch. Not only was it vicious, but it was also technically incorrect (which I forced him to admit).

Since he left, Stockfish development has become far friendlier, and this has not impeded progress. On the contrary.

[Joerg Oster]

Sadly many of those “annoying discussions” were caused by him. I still have a copy somewhere of the vicious post he made after I submitted my first patch. Not only was it vicious, but it was also technically incorrect (which I forced him to admit).

Since he left, Stockfish development has become far friendlier, and this has not impeded progress. On the contrary.

Maybe.
OTOH, he has great technical knowledge and programming skills,
and was always very helpful with advice to me.

The code base has become somewhat of a mess since then, though!
Just look at search.cpp, for example. Terrible! YMMV.