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'''James Testa''',<br/>
an American physicist and hardware engineer, in the 80s and 90s affiliated with the [[University of California, Berkeley]], where he worked with [[Alvin M. Despain]] on the [[Berkeley Chess Microprocessor]] (BCM) <ref>[[Marc Boulé]] ('''2002'''). ''An FPGA Move Generator for the Game of Chess''. Masters thesis, [[McGill University]], Supervisor: [[Zeljko Zilic]], Co-Supervisor: [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]]</ref>.
A chess entity authored by James Testa, called [[Zerker]], based on the BCM, was registered for the [[ACM 1990]] tournament, noted as promising newcomer. It reported 7,000,000 moves per second
<ref>[https://www.computerhistory.org/chess/doc-431614f6cbb95/ The 21st Annual ACM North American Computer Chess Championship] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>,
roughly three times faster than [[Deep Thought]] at that time <ref>[http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Quick+moves+claim+computer-chess+title.-a09145976 Quick moves claim computer-chess title - Free Online Library], November 24, 1990</ref>.
Unfortunately, a damage to the machine during shipment from California forced its withdrawal <ref>[[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]], [[Danny Kopec]] ('''1991'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=125497 The 21st ACM North American Computer Chess Championship]''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 34, No. 11</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
* [[James Testa]], [https://faculty.unt.edu/editprofile.php?onlyview=1&pid=1341 José Pérez], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson_D._Jeffries Carson Jeffries] ('''1982'''). ''[http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.714 Evidence for Universal Chaotic Behaviour of a Driven Nonlinear Oscillator]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Review_Letters Physical Review Letters], Vol. 48
* [[James Testa]], [[Alvin M. Despain]] ('''1990'''). ''[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/124744 A CMOS VLSI chess microprocessor]''. [[University of California, Berkeley]], [[IEEE|IEEE Custom Integrated Circuit Conference]]
=External Links=
* [https://www.linkedin.com/pub/james-testa/0/30a/b James Testa | LinkedIn]
=References=
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'''James Testa''',<br/>
an American physicist and hardware engineer, in the 80s and 90s affiliated with the [[University of California, Berkeley]], where he worked with [[Alvin M. Despain]] on the [[Berkeley Chess Microprocessor]] (BCM) <ref>[[Marc Boulé]] ('''2002'''). ''An FPGA Move Generator for the Game of Chess''. Masters thesis, [[McGill University]], Supervisor: [[Zeljko Zilic]], Co-Supervisor: [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]]</ref>.
A chess entity authored by James Testa, called [[Zerker]], based on the BCM, was registered for the [[ACM 1990]] tournament, noted as promising newcomer. It reported 7,000,000 moves per second
<ref>[https://www.computerhistory.org/chess/doc-431614f6cbb95/ The 21st Annual ACM North American Computer Chess Championship] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>,
roughly three times faster than [[Deep Thought]] at that time <ref>[http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Quick+moves+claim+computer-chess+title.-a09145976 Quick moves claim computer-chess title - Free Online Library], November 24, 1990</ref>.
Unfortunately, a damage to the machine during shipment from California forced its withdrawal <ref>[[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]], [[Danny Kopec]] ('''1991'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=125497 The 21st ACM North American Computer Chess Championship]''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 34, No. 11</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
* [[James Testa]], [https://faculty.unt.edu/editprofile.php?onlyview=1&pid=1341 José Pérez], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson_D._Jeffries Carson Jeffries] ('''1982'''). ''[http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.714 Evidence for Universal Chaotic Behaviour of a Driven Nonlinear Oscillator]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Review_Letters Physical Review Letters], Vol. 48
* [[James Testa]], [[Alvin M. Despain]] ('''1990'''). ''[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/124744 A CMOS VLSI chess microprocessor]''. [[University of California, Berkeley]], [[IEEE|IEEE Custom Integrated Circuit Conference]]
=External Links=
* [https://www.linkedin.com/pub/james-testa/0/30a/b James Testa | LinkedIn]
=References=
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