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Tom King, a British computer scientist in the information security management, and computer games programmer. Tom is author of the Chess Engine Communication Protocol compatible chess engine Francesca.

=Publications=
 * Tom King (2000). Shredder wins the 17th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3 » Shredder, WMCCC 2000

=Forum Posts=

1997 ...

 * Null move depth reductions by Tom King, rgcc, February 02, 1997 » R, Null Move Pruning
 * 32bits - enough for hashing board? by Tom King, rgcc, January 13, 1998 » Zobrist Hashing
 * Null move around (beta-1, beta) by Tom King, rgcc, March 05, 1999 » Null Move Pruning
 * Asymetric king safety by Tom King, rgcc, March 13, 1999 » Asymmetric Evaluation, King Safety
 * SEE for forward pruning in Q. Search by Tom King, CCC, August 04, 1999 » SEE, Quiescence Search
 * SEE for forward pruning in the Q. search - I'm confused! by Tom King, CCC, August 11, 1999
 * Test suites - can they reliably predict ELO? by Tom King, CCC, December 11, 1999 » Test-Positions

2000 ...

 * Fail highs..which subsequently fail low by Tom King, CCC, August 27, 2000 » Fail-High, Fail-Low, Search Instability
 * Move ordering at root of search by Tom King, CCC, May 07, 2001 » Move Ordering
 * Null move R=2 vs Null move R=2/3 by Tom King, CCC, August 09, 2001 » R, Null Move Pruning
 * Value of playing different versions of a program against each other by Tom King, CCC, January 06, 2003 » Engine Testing

2005 ...

 * history pruning/ late move pruning by Tom King, Winboard Forum, March 02, 2006 » Late Move Reductions
 * Francesca MAD v0.11 Released by Tom King, CCC, March 06, 2006
 * Verified null-move pruning by Tom King, Winboard Forum, March 09, 2006 » Verified Null-Move Pruning

2010 ...

 * static null move pruning in stockfish by Tom King, CCC, June 13, 2010 » Null Move Pruning, Stockfish
 * move count based pruning by Tom King, CCC, September 02, 2010 » Late Move Reductions
 * Most important eval elements by Tom King, CCC, September 17, 2010 » Evaluation
 * Using SEE to prune in main search by Tom King, CCC, January 08, 2011 » SEE
 * value of king tropism in eval function by Tom King, CCC, May 17, 2011 » King Safety

2015 ...

 * After an 8 year break.. by Tom King, CCC, December 30, 2018
 * Simplest way to implement quick and dirty lazy smp by Tom King, CCC, January 04, 2019 » Lazy SMP
 * Null move pruning, only when score >= beta? by Tom King, CCC, January 25, 2019 » Null Move Pruning
 * Depth reduced but ELO increased by Tom King, CCC, March 16, 2019 » Countermove Heuristic, Playing Strength
 * ELO value of TTSE? by Tom King, CCC, December 29, 2019 » TTSE

2020 ...

 * Endgame woes by Tom King, CCC, February 07, 2020 » Draw Evaluation
 * Searching fail highs shallower.. by Tom King, CCC, March 02, 2020 » Fail-High

=External Links=
 * Tom King's ICGA Tournaments
 * Silentshark - Tom King's personal website
 * Tom King - LinkedIn

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