Marcel van Kervinck

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Marcel van Kervinck, a Dutch software engineer and metrology, actually Design Leader at MAPPER Lithography and until 2009 at ASML Taiwan. Marcel is author of the chess programs Rookie, MSCP (Marcel’s Simple Chess Program) , and the UCI engine Floyd for study purposes , and author of the online opening database Bookie. From December 2012 until November 2014 he was a member of the board of the CSVN. Marcel passed away on May 25, 2020.

=Photos= Marcel van Kervinck receives the Programmer's Prize by CSVN chairman Cock de Gorter, DOCCC 2010

=Selected Publications=
 * Marcel van Kervinck (2002). The design and implementation of the Rookie 2.0 Chess Playing Program. Masters Thesis, pdf
 * Marcel van Kervinck (2002). A pattern-recognition strategy for chess position evaluation. Slides from The design and implementation of the Rookie 2.0 Chess Playing Program.
 * Marcel van Kervinck (2013). A fast software-based method for upcoming cycle detection in search trees. pdf preview » Repetitions

=Forum Posts=

1994 ...

 * Tricky bit tricks by Marcel van Kervinck, rec.games.chess, October 20, 1994 » Traversing Subsets of a Set

2010 ...

 * Inverse delta pruning by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, May 06, 2011
 * Re: Programmers: what's the story behind the name of your engine by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, June 18, 2011
 * Ahhh... the holy grail of computer chess by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, August 23, 2011
 * Upcoming repetition detection by Marcel van Kervinck, OpenChess Forum, April 06, 2013 » Repetitions
 * ICT13 programmer's report: Rookie v3.7 by Marcel van Kervinck, OpenChess Forum, June 04, 2013 » ICT 2013

2015 ...

 * Some SMP measurements with Rookie v3 by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, February 05, 2015 » Rookie, Parallel Search
 * Grafty vs Crafty by Marcel van Kervinck, Rybka Forum, April 21, 2015 » Crafty, Stockfish
 * Name for elo without draws? by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, September 02, 2015 » Match Statistics
 * Yet another KPK endgame table generator: pfkpk by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, September 05, 2015 » KPK, Endgame Bitbases
 * Floyd 0.5 released by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, Oct 11, 2015 » Floyd

=External Links=
 * Marcel's web pages
 * Marcel van Kervinck | LinkedIn
 * kervinck (Marcel van Kervinck) · GitHub
 * Marcel van Kervinck's ICGA Tournaments
 * 8-bit color computer from TTL by Marcel van Kervinck, Hackaday.io, 2017 » Gigatron

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