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Shaun Press ^[1]

Shaun Press,
a Papua New Guinean, Australian software developer and roboticist, chess FIDE master and correspondence chess player, president of the Correspondence Chess League of Australia (CCLA) ^[2], international chess arbiter, member of FIDE rules and tournament regulations committee, and the FIDE Swiss pairing programs committee ^[3].

Computer Chess

As computer chess programmer, Shaun has written multiple chess programs, most notably Vanilla Chess (VChess), BChess and Fencer, and he organized ^[4] the Australasian National Computer Chess Championships, where he also participated with his programs.

Chess Olympiads

Shaun Press represented Papua New Guinea in seven Chess Olympiads from 2000 to 2012 ^[5] as player, since 2014 as official. In Turin 2006, he was quite close to his computer chess fellows.

Year	Edition	Location	Shaun's Photos
2000	34th Chess Olympiad	Istanbul, Turkey
2002	35th Chess Olympiad	Bled, Slovenia
2004	36th Chess Olympiad	Calvià, Majorca, Spain
2006	37th Chess Olympiad	Turin, Italy ^[6]	Olympiad 2006 - Google+
2008	38th Chess Olympiad	Dresden, Germany ^[7]	Olympiad 2008 - Google+
2010	39th Chess Olympiad	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia	Olympiad 2010 - Google+
2012	40th Chess Olympiad	Istanbul, Turkey	Olympiad 2012 - Google+
2014	41st Chess Olympiad	Tromsø, Norway	Olympiad 2014 - Google+
2016	42nd Chess Olympiad	Baku, Azerbaijan