John L. Jerz

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John L. Jerz, an American electrical engineer and programmer. He holds a BS in electrical engineering (1988), a M.Sc. in EE (1995), and a M.Sc. in systems engineering (2000), all degrees from Virginia Tech . John L. Jerz maintains a web site which contains a collection of information relating to chess, computers, problem solving, artificial intelligence and other subjects .

=Future Mobility= In his article A Proposed Heuristic for a Computer Chess Program , John L. Jerz suggests to maintain a database of potential mobility for each chess piece three moves into the future and to evaluate positions accordantly. Progressive mobility is applicable via fill algorithms, where a bitboard of (safe) piece attacks of a sliding piece, a knight or a king is fed to appropriate set-wise attack generators, f.i. Dumb7Fill or Kogge-Stone algorithm for sliders.

=Selected Publications=
 * John L. Jerz (2008, 2013). A Proposed Heuristic for a Computer Chess Program.
 * John L. Jerz (2009, 2012). A Concept of Strategy Useful for Computer Game Playing.
 * John L. Jerz (2012). The Case for Using Probabilistic Knowledge in a Computer Chess Program.

=External Links=
 * Welcome to my web site by John L. Jerz
 * Computer Chess
 * Computers, Chess and Long-range Planning by Botvinnik » Mikhail Botvinnik
 * Edward Lasker on Computer Chess
 * Chess Skill in Man and Machine (Frey, 1977) » Chess Skill in Man and Machine
 * Computer Chess by David E. Welsh » David E. Welsh
 * Principles of War
 * Rybka Explained? » Rybka
 * Does Rybka Properly Count Positions Evaluated?
 * The chess program Rybka as a Rational Agent


 * The Robert I. Reynolds Challenge (1986) » Robert I. Reynolds

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