Mark Uniacke

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Mark Uniacke, a British computer scientist, and as computer chess programmer author of HIARCS, available for Pocket PC, Palm, Apple iPhone & iPod Touch, PDAs, PC and Macintosh computers. Mark started chess programming in 1979 and the very first Higher Intelligence Auto Response Chess System - HIARCS was already written in Basic in 1980.

=Photos= WMCCC 1993 Playoff Wundermaschine vs. HIARCS, Richard Lang, David Levy, Mark's father and Mark watching Viswanathan Anand playing HIARCS, Aegon 1997

=HIARCS= Quote by Mark Uniacke from Now Walking, 1982-1983: HIARCS 5 : The inspiration for the new HIARCS search was sought from the book Chess Skill in Man and Machine and in particular the article "The heuristic search: An alternative to the alpha-beta minimax procedure" by Larry Harris from Dartmouth College. HIARCS was still written in the relatively primitive BASIC programming language and being interpreted it meant the program was rather slow. To compensate for this I developed some heuristics to help guide the search and evaluation in a more targeted way.

=See also=
 * Knowledge | Search versus Evaluation

=Publications=
 * Mark Uniacke (1992). The Chess Tournament of the AST 4th Computer Olympiad. ICCA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3 » 4th Computer Olympiad
 * Mark Uniacke (1995). Computers & Operators. Computer Chess Reports Vol. 5 No. 3+4 pp. 65
 * Mark Uniacke (1995). Autoplayers. Computer Chess Reports Vol. 5 No. 3+4 pp. 66
 * Thorsten Czub (2003). Mark Uniacke interviewed - Programming HIARCS 9. Selective Search 108, pp. 12, pdf hosted by Mike Watters

=Forum Posts=
 * Re: Search or Evaluation? by Mark Uniacke, HIARCS Forum, October 14, 2007 » Search versus Evaluation, Search, Evaluation

=External Links=
 * Mark Uniacke - the author of HIARCS from HIARCS Chess Software for PC, Mac, Pocket PC, iPhone, iPod and Palm Chess
 * Mark Uniacke's ICGA Tournaments
 * Hiarcs Fan Page by Thorsten Czub
 * Meet the Authors by Ed Schröder
 * HIARCS 13 – the Professional Openings Book by Mark Uniacke, ChessBase News, March 10, 2011 » Opening Book
 * Hiarcs chess engine author, YouTube Video

=References=

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