Fridel Fainshtein

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Fridel Fainshtein, an Israeli computer scientist with a M.Sc. degree from Bar-Ilan University on computerized chess composers supervised by Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner . During the WCCC 2004 in Ramat Gan, he operated Woodpusher 1997 by John Hamlen at times, who was not only active in chess but also in 9x9 Go.

=Chess Composer= In his thesis , and the 2006 ICGA Journal Award winning paper A Chess Composer of Two-Move Mate Problems, co-authored by his thesis supervisor Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Fridel Fainshtein describes the model called Chess Composer, which utilizes Bitboard move generation. Sliding piece attacks were generated by a hybrid none rotated approach of rank lookups and the classical approach along with some bit-twiddling .

=Selected Publications=
 * Fridel Fainshtein (2006). An Orthodox k-Move Problem-Composer for Chess Directmates. M.Sc. thesis, Bar-Ilan University, pdf
 * Fridel Fainshtein, Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner (2006). A Chess Composer of Two-Move Mate Problems. ICGA Journal, Vol. 29, No. 1, pdf
 * Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Fridel Fainshtein (2006). A Deep Improver of Two-move Chess Mate Problems. Cybernetics and Systems, Vol. 37, No. 5

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