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Norman Schmidt,
an American professional software engineer and avocational chess programmer, who resides in Belgium. He studied mathematics, computer science, systems engineering and network engineering at University of Massachusetts, and music at Boston Conservatory and Berklee College of Music 1. Concerning computer chess, he is proponent of not reinventing the wheel, and has cooperated with the Ippolit and RobboLito comrades 2 and Decembrists 3 4, and led the effort to debug, stabilize, and improve Ippolit source code releases, translated RobboLito from Italo-Albanian dialect to English, and put RobboLito versions and his own derivate Fire under the GPL. Beside IvanHoe, he hosts his own Fruit and Toga derivative Cyclone 5, and worked with Dmitri Gusev and Matthew R. Brades on Firenzina 6.

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  1. Derivatives
  2. ChessLogik
  3. Forum Posts
    1. 2008
    2. 2009
    3. 2010 ...
    4. 2015 ...
  4. External Links
  5. References

Derivatives

In 2008, Norman Schmidt tried to distribute his Fruit and Toga derivative xyclOps commercially 7 until it was suspected as clone by Matthias Gemuh and others 8. After Norman Schmidt freely volunteered to refund his customers 9 10, he announced Cyclone based on Fruit and Toga as open source engine under the GPL v3.0 11 12. Further derivative programs by Norman Schmidt were TogaToy 13, Cyclops 14, Alderon, Demon, and Crimson, based on Viper 15, and more recently Jinx based on Fridolin 16, Tomcat based on Bobcat 17, and Seagull based on Gull 18.

ChessLogik

Norman Schmidt operated and maintained the ChessLogik.com site since 2007, to distribute his projects and other open-source chess engines to hobbyists. Claiming fair-mindedness and many programs and the chess community have taken benefit from his contributions and improvements, he substantiates the suspicion 19 20 that Houdini 1.0 by Robert Houdart is based on his and Sentinel's GNU public licensed RobboLito 0.085g3 21. Due to that accusation of misuse, and the Espin case with the SquarknII clone their Robbolito versions 0.085 and 0.09 are no longer available for download from the ChessLogik sites 22 23.

Forum Posts

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References

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  1. personal communication, 2016↩︎

  2. Comrade from Wikipedia↩︎

  3. Decembrist revolt from Wikipedia↩︎

  4. ChessLogik - RobboLito hosted by Norman Schmidt has a list of RobboLito comrades and Decembrists↩︎

  5. www.chesslogik.com↩︎

  6. Censor/Firenzina · GitHub↩︎

  7. xyclOps 1.2 is available by Norman Schmidt, CCC, July 05, 2008↩︎

  8. xyclOps, a clone ? by Matthias Gemuh, CCC, July 10, 2008↩︎

  9. Re: xyclOps, a clone ? by Norman Schmidt, CCC, July 11, 2008↩︎

  10. open apology to the chess engine community by Norman Schmidt, CCC, July 12, 2008↩︎

  11. Cylone 1.0 beta now available by Norman Schmidt, CCC, July 27, 2008↩︎

  12. IMPORTANT: Cyclone is a fork of Toga II 1.4b5 which has been relicensed under the GPL 3. Code from Cyclone cannot be reused in Fruit/Toga which is GPL 2+., Posix ports of some recent version of Toga II by Michel Van den Bergh (Wayback Machine)↩︎

  13. TogaToy 1.0 by Norman Schmidt, CCC, July 04, 2009↩︎

  14. Cyclone 1.0 and Cyclops 1.0 avaliable by Norman Schmidt, CCC, August 04, 2008↩︎

  15. Crimson 1.1 is a clone of Viper (and so is 1.0) by Christopher Conkie, CCC, July 05, 2009↩︎

  16. GitHub - FireFather/jinx: chess engine based on Fridolin 2.0↩︎

  17. GitHub - FireFather/tomcat: chess engine based on Bobcat 8.0↩︎

  18. GitHub - FireFather/seagull: chess engine based on Gull 3↩︎

  19. Computer Chess Biggest Liar by kingliveson, OpenChess Forum, October 09, 2011↩︎

  20. Houdini with 1:1 Robbolito-code? by Dr. Alexander Schmidt, CCC, October 12, 2011↩︎

  21. Re: Houdini with 1:1 Robbolito-code? by Norman Schmidt, CCC, October 12, 2011↩︎

  22. ChessLogik - RobboLito↩︎

  23. ChessLogik - Fire↩︎

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