Roberto Waldteufel

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Roberto Waldteufel, (born 13 Dec 1962) a French/British computer games programmer born in Spain, living on the Island of Jura, Scotland. Roberto is author of the Checkers program Wyllie, and the chess program Rabbit. Roberto Waldteufel seemed the first one, who mentioned the optimization trick in 1998 to dense the Rotated Bitboards tables, masking off the redundant outer occupancies.

=Forum Posts=

1998 ...

 * Rabbit beats heffalump with nice queen sac by Roberto Waldteufel, CCC, June 01, 1998
 * Re: Chess in BASIC? by Roberto Waldteufel, CCC, August 31, 1998 » Basic
 * Null move reductions by Roberto Waldteufel, CCC, October 04, 1998
 * Attack Tables by Roberto Waldteufel, CCC, October 20, 1998
 * Efficient Bitboard Implementation on 32-bit Architecture, CCC, October 25, 1998
 * Efficient Rotated Bitboard Representations by Roberto Waldteufel, CCC, October 28, 1998
 * Re: Extracting information from rotated Bitboards by Roberto Waldteufel, CCC, November 02, 1998
 * Rabbit available for download by Roberto Waldteufel, CCC, November 16, 1998

2000 ...

 * Tablebase Access Code by Roberto Waldteufel, CCC, April 26, 2000 » Endgame Tablebases
 * What is the Success Rate of Killer/History Moves? by Roberto Waldteufel, CCC, May 31, 2000 » Killer Heuristic History Heuristic
 * Has Anybody got the Brainy.zip file from Dan Corbit's site? by Roberto Waldteufel, CCC, October 16, 2004

=External Links=
 * Wyllie Checkers Program
 * Summer98-Tournament: Description by Torsten Schoop

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