Michael Valenti

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F. Michael (Mike) Valenti, a Canadian electrical engineer graduated from University of Toronto on the topic of chess programming. Along with his thesis supervisor Zvonko Vranesic, primary author of the chess program Chute (CHUTE - CHess, University of Toronto, Engineering), which participated four consecutive ACM North American Computer Chess Championships, ACM 1974, ACM 1975, ACM 1976 and ACM 1977 as well the 2nd WCCC Toronto 1977.

=Selected Publications=

1974 ...

 * Michael Valenti (1974). CHUTE I, An Easily Modifiable Chess Playing Program. M.A.Sc. Thesis, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto.
 * George Hardy (1974). The Enhancement of the Positional Playing Capabilities of F.M. Valenti's Chess Program. BSc. Thesis, Division of Engineering Science Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto
 * Michael Valenti, Zvonko Vranesic (1977). Experiences with CHUTE. Proceedings of the ACM 1977 annual conference

1978

 * Mike Valenti (1978). A program thesis. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 5, pp. 108 » Chute
 * Mike Valenti (1978). Valenti's Chess Program - Part II. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 6, pp. 93
 * Mike Valenti (1978). Computer Chess Programming. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 7, pp. 77
 * Mike Valenti (1978). Computer-Chess-Program-Thesis: Part III. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 7, pp. 84
 * Mike Valenti (1978). Part IV of Valenti Thesis on Chess. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 8, pp. 89
 * Mike Valenti (1978). Part V Chess Program. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 9, pp. 88
 * Mike Valenti (1978). Valenti's Chess Program. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 10, pp. 82
 * Mike Valenti (1978). Writing a Chess Program. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 11, pp. 22

1979

 * Mike Valenti (1979). A Chess Program - Part VIII. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 73
 * Mike Valenti (1979). Valenti Chess Program - Part IX. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 50
 * Mike Valenti (1979). A Chess Program - Part X. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 64
 * Mike Valenti (1979). Chess Program - Part XI. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 5, pp. 56
 * Mike Valenti (1979). Writing a chess program - Part XII. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 7, pp. 82
 * Mike Valenti (1979). Writing a chess program - Part XIII. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 8, pp. 75

=External Links=
 * Michael Valenti's ICGA Tournaments

=References=

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