Shaun Press

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Shaun Press, a Papua New Guinean, Australian software developer and roboticist, chess FIDE master and correspondence chess player, president of the Correspondence Chess League of Australia (CCLA), international chess arbiter, member of FIDE rules and tournament regulations committee, and the FIDE Swiss pairing programs committee.

=Computer Chess= As computer chess programmer, Shaun has written multiple chess programs, most notably Vanilla Chess (VChess), BChess and Fencer, and he organized the Australasian National Computer Chess Championships, where he also participated with his programs.

=Chess Olympiads= Shaun Press represented Papua New Guinea in seven Chess Olympiads from 2000 to 2012 as player, since 2014 as official. In Turin 2006, he was quite close to his computer chess fellows.

=Forum Posts=
 * Re: cheaper search ? by Shaun Press, rgcc, April 28, 1997 » Copy-Make, Vanilla Chess, KnightCap
 * National Computer Chess Championships 2004 by Shaun Press, Chess Chat, July 20, 2004 » NC3 2004
 * 2005 National Computer Chess Championships by Shaun Press, Chess Chat, July 17, 2005 » NC3 2005
 * Re: 2005 National Computer Chess Championships by Shaun Press, Chess Chat, July 17, 2005 » Point Value


 * Vanilla Chess by Shaun Press (1997) resurrected by Jim Ablett, Winboard Forum, September 13, 2006 » Vanilla Chess

=External Links=
 * Shaun Press from Wikipedia
 * Shaun Press - LinkedIn
 * Shaun Press - YouTube
 * chessexpress - Shaun's Chess Blog
 * chessexpress: Tridge by Shaun Press, July 23, 2007 » Andrew Tridgell, KnightCap, Vanilla Chess
 * chessexpress: Ow, my brain hurts by Shaun Press, October 03, 2007 » Tor Lattimore


 * Press, Shaun FIDE Chess Profile - Players Arbiters Trainers
 * The chess games of Shaun Press from chessgames.com

=References=

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