Ralf Schäfer

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Ralf Schäfer, a German computer scientist and chess programmer. Ralf is author of the chess engine Cheetah, and along with Volker Böhm, author of Spike, which incorporates ideas of Cheetah and Böhm's IceSpell. Spike won the first Livingston Chess960 Computer World Championship, 2005, in Mainz.

=Photos= Winners Chess960CWC 2005: Tord Romstad, Johannes Zwanzger, Volker Böhm and Ralf Schäfer

=Forum Posts=
 * Re: Spike News or update? by Ralf Schäfer, CCC, March 31, 2009
 * Spike 1.4 is available by Ralf Schäfer, CCC, February 01, 2011

=External Links=
 * Ralf Schäfer's ICGA Tournaments
 * Spike home
 * Spike 0.9 released, Interview with Volker Böhm and Ralf Schäfer by Frank Quisinsky, hosted by Arena Chess GUI 3.0 - Welcome to Arena, March 20, 2005 (German)
 * ...weil Chess960 vom ersten Zug an spannend ist - Die Chess960 Computer Weltmeister Volker Böhm und Ralf Schäfer im Gespräch. Chess Tigers, August 07, 2006 (German)

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