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Jon Dart, an American software developer, software architect, and independent IT consultant. As chess programmer he is author of the Chess Engine Communication Protocol and UCI compatible chess engine Arasan available to run under Windows, Linux and Mac OS.

=Forum Posts=

1994 ...

 * Computer Chess: swap down evaluators vs capture search by Jon Dart, rgc, October 24, 1994 » Swap-off algorithm - SOMA, Quiescence Search
 * Arasan progress report by Jon Dart, rgcc, May 23, 1996
 * Fail High reductions by Jon Dart, rgcc, October 7, 1996
 * Arasan goes online by Jon Dart, rgcc, January 6, 1997
 * public aplogoy/warning by James and Amy Long, rgcc, November 19, 1998
 * endgame eval question by Jon Dart, CCC, November 25, 1998

2000 ...

 * Arasan now under Linux by Jon Dart, CCC, September 02, 2000
 * A few notes from Arasan's games in CCT2 by Jon Dart, CCC, November 05, 2000 » CCT2
 * new Arasan test suite by Jon Dart, CCC, December 11, 2000
 * handling ICC timeout by Jon Dart, CCC, April 16, 2001 » Internet Chess Club
 * Using 2 machines for matches (Linux) by Jon Dart, CCC, June 24, 2001 » XBoard, Linux
 * CCT4 notes - Arasan by Jon Dart, CCC, January 20, 2002 » CCT4
 * book bust? by Jon Dart, CCC, May 10, 2002
 * pawn race position by Jon Dart, CCC, June 05, 2002 » Pawn Race
 * endgame position - null move problem by Jon Dart, CCC, February 06, 2003
 * interesting evaluation problem by Jon Dart, CCC, December 14, 2003

2005 ...

 * UCI protocol question by Jon Dart, CCC, October 04, 2005 » UCI
 * Arasan in CCT8 by Jon Dart, CCC, February 26, 2006 » CCT8
 * interesting pawn race position by Jon Dart, CCC, December 14, 2008 » Pawn Race

2010 ...

 * some UCI protocol issues/questions by Jon Dart, CCC, December 17, 2010 » UCI
 * Arasan 13.1 by Jon Dart, CCC, August 23, 2011
 * Arasan test suite additions by Jon Dart, CCC, December 20, 2012
 * UCI protocol issue by Jon Dart, CCC, July 27, 2013 » Repetitions, UCI
 * Null move, razoring and mate threats by Jon Dart, CCC, October 28, 2013 » Razoring, Null Move Pruning

2015 ...

 * MMTO for evaluation learning by Jon Dart, CCC, January 25, 2015 » Automated Tuning, Shogi
 * Experiments with eval tuning by Jon Dart, CCC, March 10, 2015 » Arasan, Automated Tuning, Texel's Tuning Method
 * Syzygy and draw by repetition by Jon Dart, CCC, July 22, 2016 » Draw, Repetitions, Syzygy Bases
 * Parallel search/LazySMP question by Jon Dart, CCC, December 17, 2017 » Lazy SMP
 * Arasan 21.0 by Jon Dart, CCC, June 30, 2018

=External Links=
 * Jon Dart - LinkedIn
 * Arasan chess by Jon Dart
 * Arasan Test Suite
 * Arasan 8.4 released, short interview with Jon Dart by Frank Quisinsky, March 01, 2005, Arena Chess GUI, Archive 5, 72

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