Dan Honeycutt
Dan Honeycutt,
an American engineer and chess programmer.
He already started his computer chess career as graduate student at Georgia Tech in the early 70s,
when he wrote a little chess program in Basic, pure minimax with an evaluation consisting of material and center proximity [1].
More recently, Dan is author of the chess engines Bruja written in C++, its didactic little open source brother Simon and the Java open source engine Cupcake.
Forum Posts
2004 ...
- Fruit - Question for Fabien by Dan Honeycutt, CCC, March 11, 2004 » Fruit, Node Types, Transposition Table, Principal Variation, Principal Variation Search
- Bruja - new engine by Dan Honeycutt, CCC, March 13, 2004
- Pawn Hash Question by Dan Honeycutt, CCC, March 15, 2004 » Pawn Hash Table
- Copyright question by Dan Honeycutt, CCC, April 19, 2004
- Fail-hard, fail-soft question by Dan Honeycutt, CCC, May 06, 2004 » Fail-Hard, Fail-Soft
- SEE and pin detection by Dan Honeycutt, CCC, August 30, 2004 » Static Exchange Evaluation, Pin
- Pin aware SEE by Dan Honeycutt, CCC, October 03, 2004
- Move Generation Speed by Dan Honeycutt, Winboard Forum, October 21, 2004
- Checks in QSearch by Dan Honeycutt, Winboard Programming Forum, November 23, 2004 » Check, Quiescence Search
2010 ...
- Your first chess program by Dan Honeycutt, CCC, April 20, 2012
- Winboard/Java help by Dan Honeycutt, CCC, April 22, 2012 » WinBoard
- MT or KISS ? by Dan Honeycutt, CCC, June 02, 2012 » Zobrist Hashing [2] [3] [4]
- Cupcake by Dan Honeycutt, CCC, June 11, 2012
- Bookbuilding 101 by Dan Honeycutt, CCC, August 06, 2012 » Opening Book
- Cupcake 1.1a by Dan Honeycutt, CCC, January 07, 2013
- Ground this Jet by Dan Honeycutt, CCC, March 12, 2014
References
- ↑ Your first chess program by Dan Honeycutt, CCC, April 20, 2012
- ↑ Mersenne twister from Wikipedia
- ↑ 64-bit KISS RNGs by George Marsaglia, comp.lang.fortran | Computer Group, February 28, 2009
- ↑ RKISS by Bob Jenkins