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an American computer scientist and senior software engineer, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree B.Sc.] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%27s_degree M.Sc.] degrees in CS from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Carolina_University East Carolina University], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenville,_North_Carolina Greenville, North Carolina].
As computer chess programmer, James is author the chess engines [[Tristram]], [[Galahad]], and [[Prophet]]. He started writing [[C]] to write a better chess program (first attempts were in [[Pascal]]), not to "learn C" <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=491728 Re: Board Representation. Any strong chess engine uses this method?] by [[James Swafford]], [[CCC]], March 06, 2006</ref>.
More recently James works on a project to explore [[Java]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services Amazon technologies] by building a highly scalible chess engine dubbed [[chess4j]] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=45090 Mr.James Swafford and Chess4J project] by [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=881 Ruxy Sylwyka], [[CCC]], September 11, 2012 </ref>.
=Publications=
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24808 Prophet ACCA PanAm 2008 tournament notes] by [[James Swafford]], [[CCC]], November 10, 2008
==2010 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=45090 Mr.James Swafford and Chess4J project] by [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=881 Ruxy Sylwyka], [[CCC]], September 11, 2012
==2015 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58934 chess4j 3.0 is released] by [[James Swafford]], [[CCC]], January 16, 2016 » [[chess4j]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=68089 chess4j 3.4] by [[James Swafford]], [[CCC]], July 27, 2018
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=68401 prophet3 20180811 released] by [[James Swafford]], [[CCC]], September 09, 2018
==2020 ...==
* [https://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=78314 Prophet 4.0 and chess4j 4.0 are released] by [[James Swafford]], [[CCC]], October 02, 2021
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