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Brian Sheppard holds a BA in mathematics from [[Harvard University]] in 1984, and a Ph.D. from [[Maastricht University]] under supervision of [[Jaap van den Herik]] and [[Jonathan Schaeffer]] in 2002 <ref>[[Brian Sheppard]] ('''2002'''). ''Towards Perfect Play of Scrabble''. Ph.D. thesis, [[Maastricht University]]</ref>.
His Ph.D. thesis ''Towards Perfect Play of Scrabble'' received the [[ChessBase]] [[ChessBase#BestPublicationAward|Best-Publication Award]].
Brian Sheppard started writing his first chess program in 1986, which has taken took him 9 years and 3 complete [[Move Generation|move generators]] to make a chess engine with championship-caliber speed <ref>[[Brian Sheppard]] ('''1996'''). ''A Professional Programmer''. [[Computer Chess Reports]], Vol. 5, No. 3+4, pp. 117</ref>.
More recently, he contributes to the [[Stockfish]] project <ref>[https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/blob/master/AUTHORS Stockfish/AUTHORS]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
==1996==
* [[Brian Sheppard]] ('''1996'''). ''Deep Blue vs. Kasparov - Betting on the Human''. [[Computer Chess Reports]], Vol. 5, No. 3+4, pp. 41» [[Kasparov versus Deep Blue 1996]]
* [[Brian Sheppard]] ('''1996'''). ''A Professional Programmer''. [[Computer Chess Reports]], Vol. 5, No. 3+4, pp. 117
==2000 ...==
* [[Brian Sheppard]] ('''2002'''). ''[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0004370201001667 World-championship-caliber Scrabble]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 134, No. 1-2
* [[Brian Sheppard]] ('''2002'''). ''An Overview of Computer Play of Scrabble''. Invited Lecture, [[7th Computer Olympiad#Workshop|7th Computer Olympiad Workshop]]
* [[Brian Sheppard]] ('''2003'''). ''Endgame Play in Scrabble''. [[ICGA Journal#26_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 26, No. 3]]
* [[Brian Sheppard]] ('''2004'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/11674399_1 Efficient Control of Selective Simulations]''. [[CG 2004]]
* [[Brian Sheppard]] ('''2004'''). ''Efficient Control of Selective Simulations''. [[ICGA Journal#27_2|ICGA Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2]] <ref>slightly revised version of the [[CG 2004]] paper</ref>
==2010 ...==
* [http://computer-go.org/pipermail/computer-go/2012-January/004429.html Re: win rate bias and CLOP] by [[Brian Sheppard]], [http://computer-go.org/pipermail/computer-go/ Computer-go Archives], January 03, 2012 » [[CLOP]]
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/fishcooking/ybc88CHDx-U/vkNg7j16AQAJ Proposal to clarify improving/inCheck/last-in-check] by [[Brian Sheppard]], [[Stockfish#FishtestComputer Chess Forums|FishtestFishCooking]], June 02, 2017* [http://www.computer-go.org/pipermail/computer-go/2017-December/010541.html Significance of resignation in AGZ] by [[Brian Sheppard]], [http://computer-go.org/pipermail/computer-go/ Computer-go Archives], December 01, 2017* [http://www.computer-go.org/pipermail/computer-go/2017-December/010583.html Re: Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm] by [[Brian Sheppard]], [http://computer-go.org/pipermail/computer-go/ Computer-go Archives], December 06, 2017 » [[AlphaZero]]* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/fishcooking/oaJQEM4wck0/sRx5TmwTCQAJ Re: Discussion for optimizing methodology] by [[Brian Sheppard]], [[Stockfish#FishtestComputer Chess Forums|FishtestFishCooking]], October 23, 2018* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/fishcooking/KfF4xn2V5gY/po_a3EkLBAAJ Re: Perceptron] by [[Brian Sheppard]], [[Stockfish#FishtestComputer Chess Forums|FishtestFishCooking]], March 02, 2019 » [[Late Move Reductions|LMR]]
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