Tom Kerrigan

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Thomas C. (Tom) Kerrigan, an American software developer and computer chess programmer, who already got hooked on computer chess as a 13-year-old growing up in Fort Collins, Colorado, playing the Chessmaster on a friend's PC. Inspired by the 1978 articles by Peter W. Frey and Larry Atkin on Chess 0.5 in BYTE magazine, he started the development his chess program Stobor in 1993, and further wrote the didactic open source chess program TSCP. While still focusing on Stobor and its parallel search, Tom Kerrigan's recent project is tChess, a chess program for the iPhone and iPod touch

=Forum Posts=

1997 ...

 * Going commercial, maybe by Tom C. Kerrigan, rgcc, March 04, 1997
 * piece list possibilities by Tom Kerrigan, CCC, July 07, 1998 » Piece-Lists
 * is the "dead bit" a good idea? by Tom Kerrigan, CCC, July 20, 1998 » Piece-Lists
 * New version of TSCP! by Tom Kerrigan, CCC, August 02, 1998
 * TSCP derivatives? by Tom Kerrigan, CCC, August 06, 1998

2000 ...

 * Chip design project & another request for Belle/DT/DB info by Tom Kerrigan, CCC, January 27, 2000 » FPGA
 * tip for "simulating" an MP computer & performance of ABDADA by Tom Kerrigan, CCC, May 28, 2000 » ABDADA
 * New version of TSCP (1.8)--opening book and hash keys by Tom Kerrigan, CCC, January 30, 2003
 * IA-64 vs OOOE (attn Taylor, Hyatt) by Tom Kerrigan, CCC, February 11, 2003 » Itanium, x86-64

2015 ...

 * Possible improvement to ABDADA -- checking for cutoffs by Tom Kerrigan, CCC, July 10, 2015 » ABDADA
 * Actual speedups from YBWC and ABDADA on 8+ core machines? by Tom Kerrigan, CCC, July 10, 2015 » ABDADA, Young Brothers Wait Concept
 * Good parallel speedup with ABDADA and cutoff checks by Tom Kerrigan, CCC, February 03, 2017
 * "How To" guide to parallel-izing an engine by Tom Kerrigan, CCC, August 27, 2017

=External Links=
 * Tom Kerrigan's Home Page
 * Multiplayer Elo


 * Tom Kerrigan's ICGA Tournaments

=References=

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