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Arie Riemer Dirk van Bergen, (Ard van Bergen, A.R.D. van Bergen) a Dutch physicist, scientific consultant and director of Novidec Ltd., Cheshire, England , as well as chess player active in the Chester Chess Club. He defended his Ph.D. in atomic physics in 1987 at Utrecht University. As former computer chess and games programmer, Ard is author of the chess programs PK80/83 and Shess, and the Draughts program TN83. Along with Stef Keetman, he developed the Draughts engine for Oxford Softworks' Intelligent Strategy Games 10.

=Quotes= from Ard's Chesspage : Also, when I was a student, I started to develop my own chess program which competed many times in the Dutch National Championship organised by the CSVN. The best result my program obtained was a shared second place in 1983. It also competed twice (Cologne 1986 and Edmonton 1989) in the World Championship organised by the ICCA (now ICGA).

=Selected Publications=
 * Sicco Kooi, Ard van Bergen (1985). The 5th World Microcomputer-Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3 » WMCCC 1985
 * Ard van Bergen (1985). An Ulti-Mate Look at the KPK Data Base. ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 4
 * Ard van Bergen, Theo van der Storm (1986). The KPK Endgame: a Unit Correction. ICCA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1
 * Ard van Bergen (1987).  Effects of intense, near-resonant laser excitation on the Na-D fluorescence spectrum in Ar gas. Ph.D. thesis, Utrecht University
 * Ard van Bergen (1989). The 1st Computer Olympiad, August 9-15, 1989. ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 3 » 1st Computer Olympiad

=External Links=
 * Ard's homepage
 * Ard's chesspage
 * Ard van Bergen - LinkedIn
 * Ard van Bergen's ICGA Tournaments
 * Ard van Bergen Video Game Credits and Biography - MobyGames

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