Will Singleton

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Will Singleton, an American real estate developer and amateur chess programmer. Already in 1978 Will wrote his first chess program in 6502 assembly to run on an Apple II computer, expanded in 1986 on the 68000. End of the 90s he started to port his program to C which evolved to the engine Amateur, compatible with Fixation running on a Macintosh, and the Chess Engine Communication Protocol.

=Forum Posts=

1997

 * pv score oscillation by Willie Wood, CCC, October 18, 1997 » Odd-Even Effect, Principal Variation, Tempo
 * Mobility in eval by Willie Wood, CCC, November 24, 1997 » Mobility
 * Has this name been used before? by Willie Wood, CCC, December 12, 1997 » Amateur

1998

 * Re: LCT II Fin4, Deep Thought, and Deep Blue (was Re: LCT II results...) by Willie Wood, CCC, January 07, 1998
 * Winboard for the Mac by Willie Wood, CCC, January 22, 1998 » WinBoard, Macintosh
 * stupid programmer by Will Singleton, CCC, February 20, 1998
 * trouble getting tt tables working by Will Singleton, CCC, March 06, 1998 » Transposition Table
 * tt table progress by Will Singleton, CCC, March 11, 1998
 * Only Mac interface? by Will Singleton, CCC, June 02, 1998
 * Redoing search, need help by Will Singleton, CCC, November 05, 1998
 * null-move failure detection by Will Singleton, CCC, November 19, 1998 » Null Move Pruning
 * Ply 1 scoring factors by Will Singleton, CCC, December 07, 1998 » Oracle
 * Under 2600 Club by Will Singleton, CCC, December 07, 1998
 * Re: CCC Moderators Elected!! by Will Singleton, CCC, December 30, 1998

1999

 * Something good to report by Will Singleton, CCC, February 22, 1999
 * challenge to Will Singleton - Amateur by Vincent Diepeveen, CCC, December 03, 1999

2000 ...

 * amateur experiment by Will Singleton, CCC, March 26, 2000
 * New versions of Fixation and Amateur released by Will Singleton, CCC, August 29, 2000
 * a classic from Will Singleton by James Swafford, CCC, October 23, 2001
 * ICC CCT2 by Will Singleton, CCC, October 26, 2000 » CCT2
 * Re: Amateur new winboard engine by Will Singleton, CCC, July 12, 2002

2005 ...

 * chess 7.0 by Will Singleton, CCC, October 16, 2008 » Chess 7.0
 * questions on using cutechess by Will Singleton, CCC, November 19, 2009
 * wrong draw claim or right? by Will Singleton, CCC, December 03, 2009 » Repetitions
 * amd k7 by Will Singleton, CCC, December 23, 2009
 * odd behavior by Will Singleton, Winboard Forum, December 30, 2009

=External Links=
 * Fixation: Amateur Chess Engine
 * Singleton (surname) from Wikipedia
 * Singleton disambiguation page from Wikipedia

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