Michael Byrne

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Michael (Mike) Byrne, an American now retired certified public accountant, finance manager, chess player and computer chess aficionado, in 1983 graduated from University of Pennsylvania. He wrote computer chess articles for Computer Chess Reports in the 90s, and served as moderator in CCC. He is member of the Crafty team around Robert Hyatt as mentioned on the CCT Tournament and ACCA World Computer Rapid Chess Championship sites, as chess consultant and opening book author. More recently, he plays around with a derivative of Senpai 1.0 by Fabien Letouzey, dubbed Kōhai , the Gull 3 fork dubbed Hawkeye , and a Stockfish fork with Cerebellum book, dubbed McBrain aka McCain.

=Selected Articles=
 * Michael Byrne (1996). My Personal Evaluations. Computer Chess Reports, Vol. 5, Nos. 3+4, p. 67
 * Michael Byrne (1996). Hiarcs Mac vs. IBM's Top Chess Playing Guns. Computer Chess Reports, Vol. 5, Nos. 3+4, p. 84
 * Michael Byrne (1996). M-Chess Pro 5.0 Book Learning Feature. Computer Chess Reports, Vol. 5, Nos. 3+4, p. 85
 * Michael Byrne (1996). M-Chess Pro 5.0 'Hidden Book". Computer Chess Reports, Vol. 5, Nos. 3+4, p. 86

=Forum Posts=

1997 ...

 * Steve Edward's Endgame Tablebase generator is now available for WIN95 by Mike Byrne, CCC, November 01, 1997 » Edwards' Tablebases

2000 ...

 * WAC 230 ..solved by by Mike Byrne, CCC, July 07, 2002 » Win at Chess
 * qBASIC Chess program - from 1984 by Dieter Steinwender by Mike Byrne, CCC, February 23, 2003 » Minimax by Dieter Steinwender
 * Crafty, Winboard, DGT and Move Annoucement by Mike Byrne, CCC, April 24, 2004
 * Deep Blue vs Kasparov, Game 6 , 1996 - Annotated with test position by Mike Byrne, CCC, May 30, 2004 » Kasparov versus Deep Blue 1996
 * Historical Chessmaster ? by Mike Byrne, CCC, April 23, 2005 » Chessmaster

2010 ...
2017 2018 2019
 * Kohai 1.0 Released - a Senpai Derivative by Michael B, CCC, June 06, 2016
 * Gull 3 x64 by Michael B, CCC, July 01, 2016 » Gull 3
 * HAwkeye 1.03 Released by Michael B, CCC, July 16, 2016 » Hawkeye
 * Crafty 25.1 Release by Michael B, CCC, October 04, 2016 » Crafty
 * Crafty v25.2 Release by Michael B, CCC, October 29, 2016
 * Stockfish 8 SE (Special Edition) by Michael B, CCC, November 04, 2016 » Stockfish
 * Stockfish 8 SSE (Special Edition) by Michael B, CCC, November 07, 2016
 * McBrain 2017 by Michael B, CCC, January 06, 2017
 * Stockfish/McBrain 2.5 Release by Michael B, CCC, June 17, 2017
 * Why McBrain? by Michael B, CCC, September 02, 2017
 * Cfish update -> macOS exe's for download by Michael B, CCC, November 13, 2017 » CFish
 * asmfishX - macOS by Michael B, CCC, November 23, 2017 » AsmFish
 * ThrowBack Tuesday - Nolot 11 by Michael B, CCC, January 24, 2018
 * A blast from the past... by Michael B, CCC, March 27, 2018
 * what may be two firsts... by Michael B, CCC, June 13, 2018 » DGT Pi, Leela Chess Zero
 * McBrain v9.9 / McCain v2 Release by Michael B, CCC, September 04, 2018
 * McCain v10 Release by Michael B, CCC, October 14, 2018
 * CT800 for the macOS by Michael B, CCC, November 01, 2018 » CT800
 * 7 Man Syzygy and SSD by Michael B, CCC, December 18, 2018 » Syzygy Bases
 * Honey-XPro Release by Michael B, CCC, May 26, 2019
 * McCain X4 Release Final by Michael B, CCC, June 21, 2019
 * Strictly for Chess960 Enthusiasts ... by Michael B, CCC, June 25, 2019
 * Linux flavors - opinions by Michael B, CCC, June 28, 2019

=External Links=
 * MichaelB7 · GitHub

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