Robert Pope

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Robert Pope, an American computer chess programmer, and author of the WinBoard compliant chess engines Beaches, an open source engine of a mixed bitboard with mailbox approach, and more recently, Abbess, based on Magic Bitboards.

=Forum Posts=

1999

 * Swiss Pairing question by Robert Pope, CCC, June 16, 1999

2000 ...

 * ECO question by Robert Pope, CCC, March 04, 2000 » ECO
 * Number of reachable positions by Robert Pope, CCC, August 30, 2000
 * Re: Hey, I do that! by Robert Pope, CCC, March 08, 2002
 * make/unmake by Robert Pope, Winboard Forum, April 08, 2006
 * SEE algorithm by Robert Pope, CCC, December 02, 2007 » Static Exchange Evaluation
 * 0x88 engines by Robert Pope, CCC, May 01, 2009

2010 ...
2015 2016 2017
 * Multiple WinBoard installations by Robert Pope, Winboard Forum, August 17, 2010 » WinBoard
 * 0x88 with pointers by Robert Pope, CCC, June 01, 2013
 * Working with CLOP by Robert Pope, CCC, January 22, 2015 » CLOP
 * Initializing portions of arrays by Robert Pope, CCC, February 12, 2015
 * value > beta by Robert Pope, CCC, June 10, 2015 » bug in CPW-Engine_search
 * Alpha-Beta bug? by Robert Pope, CCC, June 30, 2015
 * Tapered Eval by Robert Pope, CCC, August 05, 2015 » Tapered Eval
 * Transposition table test positons by Robert Pope, CCC, September 11, 2015 » Transposition Table
 * Beaches 1.20 by Robert Pope, CCC, September 21, 2015
 * KnightCap source code by Robert Pope, CCC, February 19, 2016 » KnightCap
 * TD-leaf(lambda) by Robert Pope, CCC, November 09, 2016 » TDLeaf(λ)
 * Abbess 2016 by Robert Pope, CCC, December 19, 2016
 * Opening book trees by Robert Pope, CCC, February 27, 2017 » Opening Book
 * Probing tablebases in python-chess by Robert Pope, CCC, March 20, 2017 » Gaviota Tablebases, python-chess

2020 ...

 * Null move by Robert Pope, CCC, April 24, 2020 » Null Move Pruning, Stockfish

=External Links=
 * Abbess Chess
 * BeachesChess

=References= Up one Level