Lance Perkins,
a Canadian professional software developer and as chess programmer initial author of Thinker, whose development was assumed by Kerwin Medina in 2009 1 2. Lance Perkins started chess programming dating back when he first saw Borland's Turbo Chess, and wrote his first private program with an own GUI, and many years later finally decided to bolt a WinBoard interface, submitted Thinker to Leo Dijksman's tournament 3.
Contents
Forum Posts
2004
- ElChinito disassembly for all of us by Lance Perkins, CCC, August 23, 2004 » Chinito
2005 ...
- Re: What constitutes a clone? by Lance Perkins, CCC, February 15, 2005
- Re: Extensible Chess Interface (XCI) : updated draft by Lance Perkins, CCC, March 14, 2005 » Protocols
- ThinkerTalk at ICC and FICS by Lance Perkins, CCC, March 01, 2008
- Pocket PC Thinkerboard update by Lance Perkins, CCC, April 04, 2008
- Re: Material Tables and Indexing by Lance Perkins, CCC, April 22, 2008 » Material Tables
- Re: Strelka Reverse Engineered from Rybka: Details Examined by Lance Perkins, CCC, May 01, 2008 » Strelka, Rybka
- Re: Move ordering: Delaying moves on the history phase by Lance Perkins, CCC, May 14, 2008 » Move Ordering
- Thinker-ing mobile and parallel by Lance Perkins, CCC, August 08, 2008
- A different 'Talk' this time by Lance Perkins, CCC, September 02, 2008
- Re: Thinker output by Lance Perkins, CCC, March 22, 2009
- Re: Move generation: staged vs all-at-once by Lance Perkins, CCC, April 30, 2009 » Move Generation
2010 ...
- Houdini - a cheap compile of Ippo/Robo by Lance Perkins, CCC - Computer Chess Club: Engine Origins, May 29, 2010 (requires login) » Houdini
- Re: HOUDINI is to be polite another derivative by Lance Perkins, CCC, December 19, 2010
- Re: A fast PRNG for generating hash codes by Lance Perkins, CCC, March 29, 2011
- Re: Ply vs ELO by Lance Perkins, CCC, June 29, 2011
External Links
- Arena Chess GUI 3.0 - Archive 8 - Message 118 - Interview with the programmer of Thinker, Lance Perkins (Canada) by Frank Quisinsky, April 27, 2005 (Wayback Machine)
- Champions of WBEC Ridderkerk (Wayback Machine)
References
Re: Thinker output by Lance Perkins, CCC, March 23, 2009↩︎
Re: Best tactical engine? by Lance Perkins, CCC, April 25, 2009↩︎
Arena Chess GUI 3.0 - Archive 8 - Message 118 - Interview with the programmer of Thinker, Lance Perkins (Canada) by Frank Quisinsky, April 27, 2005 (Wayback Machine)↩︎