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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 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 https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/blob/master/AUTHORS]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
