Volker Böhm

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Volker Böhm, a German computer scientist and chess programmer. Along with his fellow Ralf Schäfer, Volker Böhm is author of the chess engine Spike, which incorporates ideas from Volker's former engine IceSpell and Schäfer's former program Cheetah, and won the first Livingston Chess960 Computer World Championship 2005 in Mainz.

=Photos= Volker Böhm (left) und Ralf Schäfer, back of GCP between, Livigston Computer WM 2005

=Forum Posts=
 * My fail soft reduces quality of collected PV. Help needed by Volker Böhm, CCC, April 20, 2004 » Fail-Soft, Principal Variation
 * Spike´s first public availiable version by Volker Böhm, CCC, September 10, 2004
 * Spike 1.0 Mainz released! by Volker Böhm, CCC, August 16, 2005
 * Stockfish Singular Extension, does it make sense? by Volker Böhm, CCC, July 08, 2010 » Stockfish, Singular Extensions
 * fulitiy + lmr; funny results by Volker Böhm, CCC, December 28, 2010 » Futility Pruning, Late Move Reductions

=External Links=
 * Volker Böhm's ICGA Tournaments
 * Spike home
 * Spike 0.9 released, Interview with Volker Böhm and Ralf Schäfer by Frank Quisinsky, hosted by Arena Chess GUI 3.0 - Welcome to Arena, March 20, 2005 (German)
 * ...weil Chess960 vom ersten Zug an spannend ist - Die Chess960 Computer Weltmeister Volker Böhm und Ralf Schäfer im Gespräch. Chess Tigers, August 07, 2006 (German)

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