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Marcel van Kervinck 1
Marcel van Kervinck, (March 27, 1972 – May 25, 2020 1)
was a Dutch software engineer and metrology. Marcel was author of the chess programs Rookie 2, MSCP (Marcel’s Simple Chess Program) 3, and the UCI engine Floyd for study purposes 4, author of the online opening database Bookie 5, and co-author of the Gigatron retro-style 8-bit microcomputer 6 7. From December 2012 until November 2014, he was a member of the board of the CSVN. Marcel van Kervinck passed away on May 25, 2020 8.
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Marcel van Kervinck receives the Programmer's Prize 9 by CSVN chairman Cock de Gorter, DOCCC 2010
Selected Publications
- Marcel van Kervinck (2002). The design and implementation of the Rookie 2.0 Chess Playing Program. Masters Thesis, pdf 10
- Marcel van Kervinck (2002). A pattern-recognition strategy for chess position evaluation. Slides from The design and implementation of the Rookie 2.0 Chess Playing Program.
- Marcel van Kervinck (2013). A fast software-based method for upcoming cycle detection in search trees. pdf preview » Repetitions 11
Forum Posts
1994 ...
- Tricky bit tricks by Marcel van Kervinck, rec.games.chess, October 20, 1994 » Traversing Subsets of a Set
2010 ...
- Inverse delta pruning by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, May 06, 2011
- Re: Programmers: what's the story behind the name of your engine by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, June 18, 2011
- Ahhh... the holy grail of computer chess by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, August 23, 2011
- Upcoming repetition detection by Marcel van Kervinck, OpenChess Forum, April 06, 2013 » Repetitions
- ICT13 programmer's report: Rookie v3.7 by Marcel van Kervinck, OpenChess Forum, June 04, 2013 » ICT 2013
2015 ...
- Some SMP measurements with Rookie v3 by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, February 05, 2015 » Rookie, Parallel Search
- Grafty vs Crafty by Marcel van Kervinck, Rybka Forum, April 21, 2015 » Crafty, Stockfish
- Name for elo without draws? by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, September 02, 2015 » Match Statistics
- Yet another KPK endgame table generator: pfkpk by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, September 05, 2015 » KPK, Endgame Bitbases 12
- Floyd 0.5 released by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, Oct 11, 2015 » Floyd
External Links
- Marcel's web pages
- Marcel van Kervinck | LinkedIn
- kervinck (Marcel van Kervinck) · GitHub
- Marcel van Kervinck's ICGA Tournaments
- 8-bit color computer from TTL by Marcel van Kervinck, Hackaday.io, 2017 13
References
Floyd 0.5 released by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, Oct 11, 2015↩︎
8-bit color computer from TTL by Marcel van Kervinck, Hackaday.io, 2017↩︎
oud bestuurslid Marcel van Kervinck overleden, CSVN site, May 29, 2020↩︎
Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis by Dann Corbit, CCC, August 19, 2002↩︎
Upcoming repetition detection by Marcel van Kervinck, OpenChess Forum, April 06, 2013↩︎
The Gigatron project by Harm Geert Muller, CCC, December 06, 2017↩︎