Marcel van Kervinck
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Marcel van Kervinck, (March 27, 1972 – May 29, 2020 [2])
was a Dutch software engineer and metrology. Marcel was author of the chess programs Rookie [3], MSCP (Marcel’s Simple Chess Program) [4], and the UCI engine Floyd for study purposes [5], author of the online opening database Bookie [6], and co-author of the Gigatron retro-style 8-bit microcomputer [7] [8]. From December 2012 until November 2014, he was a member of the board of the CSVN.
Marcel van Kervinck passed away on May 25, 2020 [9].
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Marcel van Kervinck receives the Programmer's Prize [10] by CSVN chairman Cock de Gorter, DOCCC 2010
Selected Publications
- Marcel van Kervinck (2002). The design and implementation of the Rookie 2.0 Chess Playing Program. Masters Thesis, pdf [11]
- Marcel van Kervinck (2002). A pattern-recognition strategy for chess position evaluation. Slides from The design and implementation of the Rookie 2.0 Chess Playing Program.
- Marcel van Kervinck (2013). A fast software-based method for upcoming cycle detection in search trees. pdf preview » Repetitions [12]
Forum Posts
1994 ...
- Tricky bit tricks by Marcel van Kervinck, rec.games.chess, October 20, 1994 » Traversing Subsets of a Set
2010 ...
- Inverse delta pruning by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, May 06, 2011
- Re: Programmers: what's the story behind the name of your engine by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, June 18, 2011
- Ahhh... the holy grail of computer chess by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, August 23, 2011
- Upcoming repetition detection by Marcel van Kervinck, OpenChess Forum, April 06, 2013 » Repetitions
- ICT13 programmer's report: Rookie v3.7 by Marcel van Kervinck, OpenChess Forum, June 04, 2013 » ICT 2013
2015 ...
- Some SMP measurements with Rookie v3 by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, February 05, 2015 » Rookie, Parallel Search
- Grafty vs Crafty by Marcel van Kervinck, Rybka Forum, April 21, 2015 » Crafty, Stockfish
- Name for elo without draws? by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, September 02, 2015 » Match Statistics
- Yet another KPK endgame table generator: pfkpk by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, September 05, 2015 » KPK, Endgame Bitbases [13]
- Floyd 0.5 released by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, Oct 11, 2015 » Floyd
External Links
References
- ↑ kervinck (Marcel van Kervinck) · GitHub
- ↑ Marcel van Kervinck | Cuvo
- ↑ Index of /rookie
- ↑ MSCP - Marcel's Simple Chess Program
- ↑ Floyd 0.5 released by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, Oct 11, 2015
- ↑ Index of /bookie
- ↑ 8-bit color computer from TTL by Marcel van Kervinck, Hackaday.io, 2017
- ↑ About – Gigatron
- ↑ oud bestuurslid Marcel van Kervinck overleden, CSVN site, May 29, 2020
- ↑ Programmersprize 2010
- ↑ Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis by Dann Corbit, CCC, August 19, 2002
- ↑ Upcoming repetition detection by Marcel van Kervinck, OpenChess Forum, April 06, 2013
- ↑ kervinck/pfkpk · GitHub
- ↑ The Gigatron project by Harm Geert Muller, CCC, December 06, 2017