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Charles Roberson, an American computer scientist and as chess programmer, author of the chess engines NoonianChess, Telepath and Ares. He graduated in 1986 from Elon University, Elon, North Carolina, and developed his first program NoonianChess for five years to participate at the WCCC 2002 in Maastricht.

=ACCA= Charles Roberson serves as organizer of the Americas' Computer Chess Association (ACCA), the associated Americas' Computer Chess League with the ACCA Americas' Computer Chess Championship from 2006 until 2012, and the annual ACCA World Computer Rapid Chess Championship.

=Photos= Bob Hyatt, Charles Roberson, Pradu Kannan, Brian Richardson and Ted Summers, ACCA 2008

=Forum Posts=

2000 ...

 * NoonianChess 3.2.06 contents by Charles Roberson, Winboard Forum, May 14, 2002
 * CCT5 & NoonianChess by Charles Roberson, CCC, January 25, 2003 » CCT5
 * The Tobacco fields of my youth -- Parallel algorithms by Charles Roberson, CCC, February 26, 2004 » Parallel Search

2005 ...

 * Splits per Second? - Bob? by Charles Roberson, CCC, April 27, 2007
 * what is the current slope of the curve by Charles Roberson, CCC, June 07, 2007
 * king safety by Charles Roberson, CCC, November 02, 2007 » King Safety
 * Horizon Effect by Charles Roberson, CCC, March 09, 2008
 * obvious/easy move by Charles Roberson, CCC, March 12, 2008 » Pondering, Time Management
 * Rule of Square test position by Charles Roberson, CCC, May 15, 2008 » Rule of the Square
 * Hardware vs Software by Charles Roberson, CCC, December 02, 2008
 * In C++, one does ? for circular dependencies? by Charles Roberson, CCC, February 11, 2009
 * An idea for a new WCCC format - what do you think? by Charles Roberson, CCC, February 27, 2009
 * Ares 1.0 in honor of the NASA Ares I-X Space Rocket by Charles Roberson, CCC, October 31, 2009

2010 ...

 * ACCA stance on Ippo, Robbo and such by Charles Roberson, CCC, January 06, 2010 » ACCA, Ippolit, Robbolito
 * How does UCI proto handle ...... vs Xboard/winboard proto by Charles Roberson, CCC, March 24, 2010 » UCI, Chess Engine Communication Protocol
 * Modern Computer Chess Theory: Ply vs Rating limits by Charles Roberson, CCC, July 17, 2011
 * Ranking lists vs Rating lists vs what Engine is the best by Charles Roberson, CCC, November 29, 2011
 * Contest: Find Position with the most moves by Charles Roberson, CCC, December 09, 2011 » Chess Maxima
 * Stats, Testing and Opening books by Charles Roberson, CCC, December 30, 2011
 * Lone minor piece penalty - What did Larry mean? by Charles Roberson, CCC, January 10, 2012
 * Legal Reverse engineering of software by Charles Roberson, CCC, February 14, 2013
 * How to ponder by Charles Roberson, CCC, March 20, 2013 » Pondering
 * The worse thing that happened to Chess by Charles Roberson, CCC, October 11, 2014

2015 ...

 * Adam Hair's article on Pairwise comparison of engines by Charles Roberson, CCC, May 19, 2015 » Adam Hair
 * Larry Kaufman, Math and "The Development of Chess Style by Charles Roberson, CCC, May 19, 2015 » Larry Kaufman, Point Value
 * New Ares Coming by Charles Roberson, CCC, October 28, 2015
 * Cheating case-my quick analysis: Opinions/analysis requested by Charles Roberson, CCC, February 15, 2017
 * Issue with self play testing by Charles Roberson, CCC, May 18, 2018 » Engine Testing, Match Statistics
 * New version(s) of Ares by Charles Roberson, CCC, May 18, 2018 » Ares
 * Ares GB - Happy Birthday Graham Banks by Charles Roberson, CCC, October 03, 2018 » Graham Banks
 * Re: What is Deep Learning? by Charles Roberson, CCC, October 17, 2018 » Deep Learning
 * Re: methods for tuning coefficients by Charles Roberson, CCC, October 30, 2018

=External Links=
 * Charles Roberson's ICGA Tournaments
 * Charles Roberson Ares-Page hosted by Thorsten Czub
 * How to Start Your First Computer Chess Program by Charles Roberson

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