Walter Ravenek

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Walter Ravenek, a Dutch chemist, computer scientist, software developer and computer chess programmer. He studied chemistry at the Delft University of Technology and the University of Amsterdam, and received his Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He was then working as postdoc and lecturer in chemical informatics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Since 1999 Walter works as a software developer, since 2008 as a programmer at Huygens ING. Walter Ravenek started in the early 90s in developing his chess program Arthur, which played strong tournaments through the 90s. More recently he developed his new program Eowyn.

=Photos= ICT 2008 round 1, Walter Ravenek and Richard Pijl in Eowyn vs. Crashtest Dummy

=Selected Publication=
 * Walter Ravenek, Evert Jan Baerends (1984). The calculation of interaction energies using the pseudopotential Hartree-Fock-Slater-LCAO method. The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 81, No. 2
 * Walter Ravenek, Ferdie M. M. Geurts (1986). Hartree–Fock–Slater-LCAO implementation of the moderately large-embedded-cluster approach to chemisorption. Calculations for hydrogen on lithium (100). The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 84, No. 3
 * Walter Ravenek (1989). Vectorization of Large Quantum Chemical Programs: Methods and Illustrations. in Jozef T. Devreese, Piet E. Van Camp (eds.) (1989). Scientific Computing on Supercomputers. Springer

=Forum Posts=
 * Re: Computer Judgment by Walter Ravenek, rgcc, October 25, 1995 » Fortress
 * bounds in alpha-beta by Walter Ravenek, rgcc, June 05, 1996 » Fail-Soft
 * Re: Crafty V11.3 by Walter Ravenek, rgcc, October 22, 1996 » Crafty, Fractional Extensions
 * Re: forced mate by Walter Ravenek, rgcc, November 24, 1996

=External Links=
 * wravenek (Walter Ravenek) · GitHub
 * Walter Ravenek's ICGA Tournaments

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