Frédéric Louguet

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Frédéric Louguet, a French computer chess programmer, journalist and writer, in 2006 co-founder and now CTO of Ranch Computing, a Render farm located in Paris with huge GPU resources. Frédéric Louguet is author of the chess programs Chess Wizard, three time winner of the French Computer Chess Championships, and the experimental program Raptor. Frédéric Louguet was editor of the French computer chess magazine La Puce Echiquéenne, which appeared in 17 issues from 1992 until 1997, author of LCT II, the Louguet Chess Test II and author of books about various computer related issues.

=Photos= Franck Zibi, Frédéric Louguet, Pascal Tang, Bruno Lucas, FCCC 2002

Pascal Tang, Frédéric Louguet, Bruno Lucas, FCCC 2003

=Selected Publications=
 * Frédéric Louguet (ed.) (1992,1997). La Puce Echiquéenne. No. 1-17
 * Frédéric Louguet (1993). Echecs et Mips. DunodTech
 * Frédéric Louguet (2002). The 9th French Computer-Chess Championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4 » FCCC 2002

=Forum Posts=
 * Fritz and Chess Wizard vs Deep Blue Junior by Frédéric Louguet, CCC, May 17, 1999
 * Chess Wizard on ICC by Frédéric Louguet, CCC, August 11, 2002
 * Chess Wizard, some history and techniques by Frédéric Louguet, October 08, 2002
 * About compiler optimizations by Frédéric Louguet, CCC, December 19, 2002
 * Massy, a correction : Raptor is NOT Chess Wizard by Frédéric Louguet, CCC, June 16, 2003
 * Multi-ProbCut and Crafty : does it work ? by Frédéric Louguet, CCC, June 28, 2003 » Multi–ProbCut, Crafty

=External Links=
 * Ranch Computing has doubled its GPU calculation power

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