Dennis Sceviour

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Dennis Sceviour, a Canadian avocational computer chess programmer and author of the Chess Engine Communication Protocol compliant chess engine Schooner, released in 2015. He already started chess programming in the late 70s, and followed Bob Hyatt's Crafty development during his dormant programming years.

=Forum Posts=

2015

 * Schooner Version 1.4 by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, August 19, 2015
 * Hash Refutation by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, August 24, 2015 » Internal Iterative Deepening
 * Profiling Comparisons by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, September 06, 2015 » Profiling
 * Reduction Research Question by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, September 25, 2015 » Reductions
 * Safe or Attack Style by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, December 22, 2015

2016

 * Transposition Age Tutorial by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, January 25, 2016 » Transposition Table
 * Castling Evaluation by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, August 02, 2016 » Castling, King Safety
 * Floating Move Reduction by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, September 14, 2016 » Reductions
 * ChessGUI Timer Problem by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, October 24, 2016 » ChessGUI
 * Statistical Interpretation by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, December 10, 2016 » Match Statistics
 * Polyglot pickBest by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, December 29, 2016 » PolyGlot, WinBoard

2017

 * Null Move Beta=0 by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, April 28, 2017
 * Hang a Rook? by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, May 11, 2017
 * Logarithmic Patterns In Evaluations by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, December 09, 2017

2018

 * Pawn Storm - Theory by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, February 14, 2018 » Pawn Storm
 * Schooner 2 by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, October 30, 2018
 * Schooner's Test Positions by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, November 02, 2018
 * The Xiphos Material Evaluator by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, November 05, 2018 » Material, Xiphos

2019

 * Prefetch and Threading by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, April 25, 2019 » Memory, Shared Hash Table, Thread
 * The Poor Man's KP Bitbase by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, June 07, 2019
 * Polyglot FRC/960 Opening Book by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, November 27, 2019 » Chess960, Opening Book, PolyGlot

2020

 * Speeding Up The Tuner by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, September 06, 2020 » Automated Tuning

=External Links=
 * Dennis Sceviour | LinkedIn
 * Schooner Chess

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