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'''David Fotland''',<br/>
an American electrical engineer, computer scientist, [[Go]] player, Go , Chess and Chess [[Arimaa]] programmer <ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess.computer/LTANssDhxw4/Ifc1SPOlSLAJ Re: object oriented chess programming] by [[David Fotland|Dave Fotland]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], January 06, 1998</ref>.
He is author of the Go playing program [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=138 Many Faces of Go], which is under development since 1981.
The engine combines a traditional knowledge-based algorithm with a modern [[Monte-Carlo Tree Search]] <ref>[http://www.computer-go.info/db/oprog.php?a=Many+Faces+of+Go Details of Program: Many Faces of Go] from [http://www.computer-go.info/ computer-go.info]</ref>.
=Forum Posts=
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess.computer/QP5I1JLlgr0/bkCS3M-LgJIJ Evaluation function question] by [[David Fotland|Dave Fotland]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], February 07, 1997 » [[Evaluation]]
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess.computer/LTANssDhxw4/Ifc1SPOlSLAJ Re: object oriented chess programming] by [[David Fotland|Dave Fotland]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], January 06, 1998» [[Cpp|C++]]* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=25080 Deep Blue chip talk] by [[David Fotland]], [[CCC]], August 19, 1998 » [[Deep Blue]]* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=14777 Underpromoting other than to a knight] by [[David Fotland]], [[CCC]], January 29, 1998 » [[Promotions#MinorPromotion|Minor Promotion]]
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