Jon Dart
Jon Dart,
an American software developer, software architect, and independent IT consultant [2]. As a chess programmer he is author of the Chess Engine Communication Protocol and UCI compatible chess engine Arasan, available to run under Windows, Linux and Mac OS [3].
Contents
Forum Posts
1994 ...
- Computer Chess: swap down evaluators vs capture search by Jon Dart, rgc, October 24, 1994 » Swap-off algorithm - SOMA, Quiescence Search
- Arasan progress report by Jon Dart, rgcc, May 23, 1996
- Fail High reductions by Jon Dart, rgcc, October 7, 1996
- Arasan goes online by Jon Dart, rgcc, January 6, 1997
- public aplogoy/warning by James and Amy Long, rgcc, November 19, 1998
- endgame eval question by Jon Dart, CCC, November 25, 1998
2000 ...
- Arasan now under Linux by Jon Dart, CCC, September 02, 2000
- A few notes from Arasan's games in CCT2 by Jon Dart, CCC, November 05, 2000 » CCT2
- new Arasan test suite by Jon Dart, CCC, December 11, 2000
- handling ICC timeout by Jon Dart, CCC, April 16, 2001 » Internet Chess Club
- Using 2 machines for matches (Linux) by Jon Dart, CCC, June 24, 2001 » XBoard, Linux
- CCT4 notes - Arasan by Jon Dart, CCC, January 20, 2002 » CCT4
- book bust? by Jon Dart, CCC, May 10, 2002
- pawn race position by Jon Dart, CCC, June 05, 2002 » Pawn Race
- endgame position - null move problem by Jon Dart, CCC, February 06, 2003
- interesting evaluation problem by Jon Dart, CCC, December 14, 2003
2005 ...
- UCI protocol question by Jon Dart, CCC, October 04, 2005 » UCI
- Arasan in CCT8 by Jon Dart, CCC, February 26, 2006 » CCT8
- interesting pawn race position by Jon Dart, CCC, December 14, 2008 » Pawn Race
2010 ...
- some UCI protocol issues/questions by Jon Dart, CCC, December 17, 2010 » UCI
- Arasan 13.1 by Jon Dart, CCC, August 23, 2011
- Arasan test suite additions by Jon Dart, CCC, December 20, 2012
- UCI protocol issue by Jon Dart, CCC, July 27, 2013 » Repetitions, UCI
- Null move, razoring and mate threats by Jon Dart, CCC, October 28, 2013 » Razoring, Null Move Pruning
2015 ...
- MMTO for evaluation learning by Jon Dart, CCC, January 25, 2015 » Automated Tuning, Shogi [4]
- Experiments with eval tuning by Jon Dart, CCC, March 10, 2015 » Arasan, Automated Tuning, Texel's Tuning Method
- Syzygy and draw by repetition by Jon Dart, CCC, July 22, 2016 » Draw, Repetitions, Syzygy Bases
- Parallel search/LazySMP question by Jon Dart, CCC, December 17, 2017 » Lazy SMP
- Arasan 21.0 by Jon Dart, CCC, June 30, 2018
2020 ...
- hash collisions by Jon Dart, CCC, January 28, 2020 » Key Collisions
- repackaging of Fishtest's SPRT calculation code by Jon Dart, CCC, March 20, 2020 » SPRT
- nnue reading code by Jon Dart, CCC, February 13, 2021 » NNUE
External Links
- Jon Dart - LinkedIn
- jdart1 (Jon Dart) · GitHub
- Arasan chess
- Arasan Test Suite [5]
- Arasan 8.4 released, short interview with Jon Dart by Frank Quisinsky, March 01, 2005, Arena Chess GUI, Archive 5, 72 (Wayback Machine)