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Shawn Chidester1
Shawn Chidester,
an American senior software engineer at Attensity 1, and as computer chess programmer author of the chess engines CACIO (early 90s in Turbo Pascal 2), Clubfoot, its bitboard counterpart Bitfoot, the experimental Clunk 3, Bumblebee 4, and the Senjo C++ UCI adapter. Senjo simplifies the UCI protocol implementation of engines written in C++, as demonstrated by Clubfoot, Bitfoot and Bumblebee 5.
Contents
Forum Posts
2015
- Singular extensions by Shawn Chidester, CCC, March 21, 2015 » Singular Extensions
- Licensing by Shawn Chidester, CCC, April 03, 2015
- Rook vs 2 minor pieces with pawns on the board by Shawn Chidester, CCC, April 27, 2015
- LMR tuning by Shawn Chidester, CCC, May 11, 2015 » Late Move Reductions
- Introducing Bitfoot by Shawn Chidester, CCC, June 08, 2015
- Razoring vs Futility pruning by Shawn Chidester, CCC, August 16, 2015 » Razoring, Futility Pruning
- Verification of pruning techniques by Shawn Chidester, CCC, October 04, 2015 » Pruning
- Clunk 1.0 released by Shawn Chidester, CCC, December 29, 2015
2016
- Bumblebee 1.0 by Shawn Chidester, CCC, February 07, 2016
- Transposition table replacement strategies by Shawn Chidester, CCC, March 01, 2016 » Transposition Table
- Test position that requires KKP evaluation by Shawn Chidester, CCC, April 22, 2016 » KPK
- Calculating space by Shawn Chidester, CCC, August 07, 2016
External Links
References
GitHub - zd3nik/CACIO: My first chess program (created 1994-ish)↩︎
Clunk 1.0 released by Shawn Chidester, CCC, December 29, 2015↩︎
Bumblebee 1.0 by Shawn Chidester, CCC, February 07, 2016↩︎