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Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Belgian computer programmer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ52261949 ↗
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Gian-Carlo Pascutto (born 1982) is a Belgian computer programmer. He is the author of the chess engine Sjeng and Go software Leela, and the original author of the free and open-source Go software Leela Zero. Gian-Carlo also authored many core components of the foobar2000 media player.

In 2023 and 2024, Pascutto won World Computer Chess Championship organized by ICGA with his program, Stoofvlees.

He graduated from Hogeschool Gent in 2006, and has worked as a mobile platform engineer and manager at Mozilla Corporation since 2011.

Pascutto is a native of Ninove. He is married and has two children.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Gian-Carlo Pascutto” as belgian computer programmer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1982, 2023, 2024, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1982. The account is most persuasive where Gian-Carlo, Pascutto and Belgian can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Gian-Carlo Pascutto” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.