Anthony Cozzie

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Anthony E. Cozzie, an American computer scientist with a Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on the topic of Detecting and Combining Programming Patterns, creative thinker, intuitive programmer, cosmopolitan world traveler, erudite conversationalist, modest, all-around good guy. As retired computer chess programmer, Anthony is author of the world class chess program Zappa  , the winner of the WCCC 2005 in Reykjavík, and after the Rybka disqualification in 2011, the WCCC 2007 in Amsterdam.

=Photos & Games=

Reykjavík 2005
Anthony Cozzie just before round 7, Zappa - Junior, WCCC 2005 [Event "WCCC 2005"] [Site "Reykjavík, Iceland"] [Date "2005.08.19"] [Round "7"] [White "Zappa"] [Black "Junior"] [Result "1-0"]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.Nc3 c6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.g4 h6 8.Rg1 e5 9.cxd5 cxd5 10.g5 hxg5 11.Nxg5 e4 12.Nb5 Nb6 13.Bd2 Bf5 14.h3 Bh2 15.Rg2 Rc8 16.Qb3 Bb8 17.Bb4 Nh7 18.Nxh7 Rxh7 19.Rg1 Rc6 20.Nc3 a6 21.a4 Nc4 22.Bxc4 dxc4 23.Qc2 Rch6 24.Qe2 Qc8 25.O-O-O b5 26.d5 Qb7 27.d6 Bd7 28.axb5 axb5 29.Rg5 f5 30.Rd5 Qa8 31.Kb1 g6 32.Re5+ Kf7 33.Nd5 Kf8 34.Nf6 Rf7 35.Re8+ Kg7 36.Nh5+ Kh7 1-0

Mexico-City 2007
Press conference Zappa versus Rybka 2007, Anthony Cozzie, David Levy and Vasik Rajlich

=Selected Publications=
 * Robert Hyatt, Anthony Cozzie (2005). The Effect of Hash Signature Collisions in a Chess Program. ICGA Journal, Vol. 28, No. 3
 * Anthony Cozzie (2007). Zappa vs. Rybka. ICGA Journal, Vol. 30, No. 4
 * Anthony Cozzie, Frank Stratton, Hui Xue, Samuel T. King (2008). Digging for Data Structures. OSDI 2008, pdf
 * Samuel T. King, Joseph Tucek, Anthony Cozzie, Chris Grier, Weihang Jiang, Yuanyuan Zhou (2008). Designing and Implementing Malicious Hardware. LEET 2008, pdf
 * Anthony Cozzie (2011). The Future of Computer Chess. Selective Search 154, pp. 11, pdf hosted by Mike Watters
 * Anthony Cozzie (2011). Detecting and Combining Programming Patterns. Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advisor Samuel T. King

=Forum Posts=
 * Zappa CCT5 Report by Anthony Cozzie, CCC, January 21, 2003 » CCT5
 * Zappa @ CCT6 by Anthony Cozzie, CCC, February 01, 2004 » CCT6
 * The Zappa Attack Table Code by Anthony Cozzie, CCC, May 05, 2004
 * Re: Fruit fly races by Anthony Cozzie, CCC, April 06, 2005
 * Zappa scaling #s by Anthony Cozzie, CCC, August 23, 2005
 * Re: Zappa Retail: No UCI? by Anthony Cozzie, CCC, September 04, 2005
 * Re: what do we know about zappa by Anthony Cozzie, CCC, December 12, 2005
 * Zappa Hardware Upgrade by Anthony Cozzie, CCC, December 23, 2005
 * Zappa Report by Anthony Cozzie, CCC, December 30, 2005 » IPCCC 2005 b
 * Re: Zappa Report by Ingo Althöfer, CCC, December 30, 2005


 * Re: Strelka 2.0 pg 4 by Anthony Cozzie, Rybka Forum, January 11, 2008
 * Anthony Cozzie speak ! by Silvian, Rybka Forum, February 03, 2008
 * My two cents by Anthony Cozzie, CCC, August 27, 2008
 * Longer Article by Anthony Cozzie, CCC, March 17, 2011

=External Links=
 * Anthony Cozzie's ICGA Tournaments
 * Anthony Cozzie's page
 * World Computer Chess Champion: Zap!Chess by ChessBase, April 13, 2006

=References=

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