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an American electrical engineer and computer chess programmer. He started chess programming in about 1978 with [[Basic]] and [[Fortran]], until he switched to [[Pascal]] and in 1986 to [[C]]. His early program [[SCP]] (Stanback Chess Program), was already published in 1987 as [[:Category:Open Source Engines|open source]] in [[Computer Chess Forums|comp.sources.games]] <ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.sources.games/zs_1mrpdseE/YL2yGrzoXrEJ v01i023: chess - C source for chess] by [[John Stanback]], [[Computer Chess Forums|comp.sources.games]], May 21, 1987</ref>, and later evolved to [[GNU Chess]]. In 1989 John Stanback did a complete rewrite and called the new program [[Zarkov]] <ref>[http://john.stanback.net/zarkov/zarkov_methods.html How Zarkov Plays Chess] by [[John Stanback]]</ref>, which was subject of experiments with various ideas until recently. In June 2016, the successor of Zarkov dubbed [[Wasp]] was released, announced and hosted by [[Frank Quisinsky]] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60550 Wasp 1.01 x64 by John Stanback released ...] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], [[CCC]], June 22, 2016</ref> <ref>[http://www.amateurschach.de/main/_wasp.htm Frank's Chess Page, Wasp by John Stanback], June 22, 2016</ref>.