Matthew R. Brades

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Matthew R. Brades, an English chess programmer, notable for the fact that he joined the CCC at age 12 , two years younger than Zach Wegner. He is the author of various chess engines such as Magic (based on FirstChess) and FruitFly (based on Fruit) - his recent engine is dubbed Dorpsgek. Along with Norman Schmidt and Dmitri Gusev, he is further involved in the development of Firenzina, a derivative of Fire xTreme by Norman Schmidt and Firebird by Norman Schmidt and Milos Stanisavljevic, which are derivatives of the Ippolit family of engines by Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin et al..

=Forum Posts=

2011 ...

 * Some thoughts by a noob by Matthew R. Brades, CCC, July 23, 2011
 * Reverse Futility Pruning by Matthew R. Brades, CCC, December 02, 2011 » Futility Pruning, Reverse Futility Pruning
 * LMR Research by Matthew R. Brades, CCC, July 02, 2012 » Late Move Reductions
 * Aspiration Windows: Rubbish! by Matthew R. Brades, CCC, July 16, 2012 » Aspiration Windows
 * TT avoid nullmove flag by Matthew R. Brades, CCC, August 02, 2012 » Transposition Table, Null Move Pruning
 * Leading Zero Count Question by Matthew R. Brades, CCC, September 16, 2012 » BitScan
 * Total possible chess positions? by Matthew R. Brades, CCC, March 26, 2014 » Chess Maxima

2015 ...

 * Incremental update by Matthew R. Brades, CCC, December 19, 2015 » Incremental Updates
 * Multi-cut and fail-soft by Matthew R. Brades, CCC, June 30, 2016 » Multi-Cut, Fail-Soft
 * Mate scores from IID by Matthew R. Brades, CCC, August 16, 2016 » Mate Score, Internal Iterative Deepening
 * Dorpsgek Ambrosia by Matthew R. Brades, CCC, July 07, 2016

=External Links=
 * ZirconiumX GitHub

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