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Roman Hartmann,
a Swiss civil engineer with focus on underground and hydraulic engineering, and as avocational computer chess programmer author of the UCI compliant chess engine ROCE (Roman's Own Chess Engine), which became a reference engine for Perft and Divide ¹. In 2004, Roman Hartmann wrote his Matura thesis on Programming a Computer to Play Chess ².

Publications

• Roman Hartmann (2004). Die Programmierung eines Computers für das Schachspiel. Matura thesis, pdf (German)

Forum Posts

2004 ...

• perft results (how accurate is accurate enough ?) by Roman Hartmann, CCC, September 23, 2004
• huge speedup by using pointers instead of arrays by Roman Hartmann, CCC, September 28, 2004
• Should we have a second forum to post all the tournament results? by Roman Hartmann, CCC, February 19, 2006
• WCRCC-Report by Roman Hartmann, CCC, June 23, 2008 » WCRCC 2008

2010 ...

• Re: Legal or Pseudo-Legal Move generation by Roman Hartmann, CCC, July 27, 2010
• Re: Question regarding WAC number 2 by Roman Hartmann, CCC, October 19, 2010
• Re: Nostalgia by Roman Hartmann, CCC, February 10, 2013
• Re: Chess960 / FRC on ICS by Roman Hartmann, CCC, July 01, 2013 » Chess960
• Anyone into literate programming? by Roman Hartmann, CCC, January 26, 2015
• Re: Worst advice by Roman Hartmann, CCC, August 11, 2015 » Aspiration Windows
• Re: A perft(7) challenge position by Roman Hartmann, CCC, April 08, 2016

External Links

• Home of Roce

ROCE - Roman's Own Chess Engine

A few informations regarding perft/divide » Perft

How to write a chess engine

References