Shawn Chidester

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Shawn Chidester, an American senior software engineer at Attensity , and as computer chess programmer author of the chess engines CACIO (early 90s in Turbo Pascal ), Clubfoot, its bitboard counterpart Bitfoot, the experimental Clunk, Bumblebee , and the Senjo C++ UCI adapter. Senjo simplifies the UCI protocol implementation of engines written in C++, as demonstrated by Clubfoot, Bitfoot and Bumblebee.

=Forum Posts=

2015

 * Singular extensions by Shawn Chidester, CCC, March 21, 2015 » Singular Extensions
 * Licensing by Shawn Chidester, CCC, April 03, 2015
 * Rook vs 2 minor pieces with pawns on the board by Shawn Chidester, CCC, April 27, 2015
 * LMR tuning by Shawn Chidester, CCC, May 11, 2015 » Late Move Reductions
 * Introducing Bitfoot by Shawn Chidester, CCC, June 08, 2015
 * Razoring vs Futility pruning by Shawn Chidester, CCC, August 16, 2015 » Razoring, Futility Pruning
 * Verification of pruning techniques by Shawn Chidester, CCC, October 04, 2015 » Pruning
 * Clunk 1.0 released by Shawn Chidester, CCC, December 29, 2015

2016

 * Bumblebee 1.0 by Shawn Chidester, CCC, February 07, 2016
 * Transposition table replacement strategies by Shawn Chidester, CCC, March 01, 2016 » Transposition Table
 * Test position that requires KKP evaluation by Shawn Chidester, CCC, April 22, 2016 » KPK
 * Calculating space by Shawn Chidester, CCC, August 07, 2016

=External Links=
 * Shawn Chidester | LinkedIn
 * (Shawn Chidester) · GitHub
 * Senjo C++ UCI Adapter

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