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[[FILE:Shaun_Press_2013.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shaun_Press_2013.jpg| Shaun Press <ref>Shaun Press, Chief Arbiter at the 2013 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doeberl_Cup Doeberl Cup], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra Canberra], April 2013, Photo taken by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Garybekker Gary Bekker], April 01, 2013, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Garybekker/Shaun_Press Shaun Press from Wikipedia]</ref> ]]
'''Shaun Press''',<br/>
a Papua New Guinean, Australian software developer and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roboticist roboticist], chess [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_Master#FIDE_Master_.28FM.29 FIDE master] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondence_chess correspondence chess] player, president of the Correspondence Chess League of Australia (CCLA) <ref>[http://www.ccla.net.au/ CCLA Home]</ref>, international chess arbiter, member of [[FIDE]] rules and tournament regulations committee, and the FIDE [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament Swiss pairing] programs committee <ref>[https://plus.google.com/100802559958907689739/about Shaun Press – Google+ | About]</ref>.
=Computer Chess=
As computer chess programmer, Shaun has written multiple chess programs, most notably [[Vanilla Chess]] (VChess), [[BChess]] and [[Fencer]], and he organized <ref>[http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~shaun/ Shaun Press Home Page]</ref> the [[Australasian National Computer Chess Championship|Australasian National Computer Chess Championships]], where he also participated with his programs.
=Chess Olympiads=
Shaun Press represented [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea Papua New Guinea] in seven [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_Olympiad Chess Olympiads] from 2000 to 2012 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Garybekker/Shaun_Press Shaun Press from Wikipedia]</ref> as player, since 2014 as official. In [[WCCC 2006|Turin 2006]], he was quite close to his computer chess fellows.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Edition
! Location
! Shaun's Photos
|-
! 2000
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/34th_Chess_Olympiad 34th Chess Olympiad]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul Istanbul], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey Turkey]
|
|-
! 2002
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35th_Chess_Olympiad 35th Chess Olympiad]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bled Bled], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia Slovenia]
|
|-
! 2004
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36th_Chess_Olympiad 36th Chess Olympiad]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvi%C3%A0 Calvià], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorca Majorca], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain Spain]
|
|-
! 2006
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/37th_Chess_Olympiad 37th Chess Olympiad]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turin Turin], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy Italy] <ref>[[WCCC 2006]], [[CG 2006]]</ref>
| [https://plus.google.com/photos/100802559958907689739/albums/5060271467266278977 Olympiad 2006 - Google+]
|-
! 2008
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/38th_Chess_Olympiad 38th Chess Olympiad]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden Dresden], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany Germany] <ref>[[Workshop Chess and Mathematics]]</ref>
| [https://plus.google.com/photos/100802559958907689739/albums/5269168760681085905 Olympiad 2008 - Google+]
|-
! 2010
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39th_Chess_Olympiad 39th Chess Olympiad]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khanty-Mansiysk Khanty-Mansiysk], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia Russia]
| [https://plus.google.com/photos/100802559958907689739/albums/5518834261903230801 Olympiad 2010 - Google+]
|-
! 2012
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40th_Chess_Olympiad 40th Chess Olympiad]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul Istanbul], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey Turkey]
| [https://plus.google.com/photos/100802559958907689739/albums/5781790617624056689 Olympiad 2012 - Google+]
|-
! 2014
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/41st_Chess_Olympiad 41st Chess Olympiad]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troms%C3%B8 Tromsø], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway Norway]
| [https://plus.google.com/photos/100802559958907689739/albums/6042904886242391201 Olympiad 2014 - Google+]
|-
! 2016
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_Chess_Olympiad 42nd Chess Olympiad]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku Baku], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan Azerbaijan]
|
|}
=Forum Posts=
* [https://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/msg/730c03a83bf92807 Re: cheaper search ?] by [[Shaun Press]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], April 28, 1997 » [[Copy-Make]], [[Vanilla Chess]], [[KnightCap]]
* [http://www.chesschat.org//showthread.php?t=637 National Computer Chess Championships 2004] by [[Shaun Press]], [http://www.chesschat.org/archive/index.php/ Chess Chat], July 20, 2004 » [[NC3 2004]]
* [http://www.chesschat.org/archive/index.php/t-2637.html 2005 National Computer Chess Championships] by [[Shaun Press]], [http://www.chesschat.org/archive/index.php/ Chess Chat], July 17, 2005 » [[NC3 2005]]
: [http://www.chesschat.org//showpost.php?p=63437&postcount=10 Re: 2005 National Computer Chess Championships] by [[Shaun Press]], [http://www.chesschat.org/archive/index.php/ Chess Chat], July 17, 2005 » [[Point Value]]
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5583 Vanilla Chess by Shaun Press (1997) resurrected] by [[Jim Ablett]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], September 13, 2006 » [[Vanilla Chess]]
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Garybekker/Shaun_Press Shaun Press from Wikipedia]
* [https://plus.google.com/100802559958907689739/posts Shaun Press – Google+]
* [http://au.linkedin.com/in/shaunpress Shaun Press - LinkedIn]
* [http://www.youtube.com/user/shaunp64 Shaun Press - YouTube]
* [http://chessexpress.blogspot.com/ chessexpress - Shaun's Chess Blog]
: [http://chessexpress.blogspot.de/2007/07/tridge.html chessexpress: Tridge] by [[Shaun Press]], July 23, 2007 » [[Andrew Tridgell]], [[KnightCap]], [[Vanilla Chess]]
: [http://chessexpress.blogspot.de/2007/10/ow-my-brain-hurts.html chessexpress: Ow, my brain hurts] by [[Shaun Press]], October 03, 2007 » [[Tor Lattimore]]
* [http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=9100075 Press, Shaun FIDE Chess Profile - Players Arbiters Trainers]
* [http://www.chessgames.com/player/shaun_press.html The chess games of Shaun Press] from [http://www.chessgames.com/index.html chessgames.com]
* [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~shaun/ Shaun Press Home Page]
=References=
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'''[[People|Up one level]]'''
[[FILE:Shaun_Press_2013.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shaun_Press_2013.jpg| Shaun Press <ref>Shaun Press, Chief Arbiter at the 2013 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doeberl_Cup Doeberl Cup], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra Canberra], April 2013, Photo taken by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Garybekker Gary Bekker], April 01, 2013, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Garybekker/Shaun_Press Shaun Press from Wikipedia]</ref> ]]
'''Shaun Press''',<br/>
a Papua New Guinean, Australian software developer and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roboticist roboticist], chess [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_Master#FIDE_Master_.28FM.29 FIDE master] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondence_chess correspondence chess] player, president of the Correspondence Chess League of Australia (CCLA) <ref>[http://www.ccla.net.au/ CCLA Home]</ref>, international chess arbiter, member of [[FIDE]] rules and tournament regulations committee, and the FIDE [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament Swiss pairing] programs committee <ref>[https://plus.google.com/100802559958907689739/about Shaun Press – Google+ | About]</ref>.
=Computer Chess=
As computer chess programmer, Shaun has written multiple chess programs, most notably [[Vanilla Chess]] (VChess), [[BChess]] and [[Fencer]], and he organized <ref>[http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~shaun/ Shaun Press Home Page]</ref> the [[Australasian National Computer Chess Championship|Australasian National Computer Chess Championships]], where he also participated with his programs.
=Chess Olympiads=
Shaun Press represented [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea Papua New Guinea] in seven [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_Olympiad Chess Olympiads] from 2000 to 2012 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Garybekker/Shaun_Press Shaun Press from Wikipedia]</ref> as player, since 2014 as official. In [[WCCC 2006|Turin 2006]], he was quite close to his computer chess fellows.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Edition
! Location
! Shaun's Photos
|-
! 2000
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/34th_Chess_Olympiad 34th Chess Olympiad]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul Istanbul], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey Turkey]
|
|-
! 2002
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35th_Chess_Olympiad 35th Chess Olympiad]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bled Bled], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia Slovenia]
|
|-
! 2004
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36th_Chess_Olympiad 36th Chess Olympiad]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvi%C3%A0 Calvià], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorca Majorca], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain Spain]
|
|-
! 2006
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/37th_Chess_Olympiad 37th Chess Olympiad]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turin Turin], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy Italy] <ref>[[WCCC 2006]], [[CG 2006]]</ref>
| [https://plus.google.com/photos/100802559958907689739/albums/5060271467266278977 Olympiad 2006 - Google+]
|-
! 2008
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/38th_Chess_Olympiad 38th Chess Olympiad]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden Dresden], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany Germany] <ref>[[Workshop Chess and Mathematics]]</ref>
| [https://plus.google.com/photos/100802559958907689739/albums/5269168760681085905 Olympiad 2008 - Google+]
|-
! 2010
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39th_Chess_Olympiad 39th Chess Olympiad]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khanty-Mansiysk Khanty-Mansiysk], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia Russia]
| [https://plus.google.com/photos/100802559958907689739/albums/5518834261903230801 Olympiad 2010 - Google+]
|-
! 2012
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40th_Chess_Olympiad 40th Chess Olympiad]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul Istanbul], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey Turkey]
| [https://plus.google.com/photos/100802559958907689739/albums/5781790617624056689 Olympiad 2012 - Google+]
|-
! 2014
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/41st_Chess_Olympiad 41st Chess Olympiad]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troms%C3%B8 Tromsø], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway Norway]
| [https://plus.google.com/photos/100802559958907689739/albums/6042904886242391201 Olympiad 2014 - Google+]
|-
! 2016
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_Chess_Olympiad 42nd Chess Olympiad]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku Baku], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan Azerbaijan]
|
|}
=Forum Posts=
* [https://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/msg/730c03a83bf92807 Re: cheaper search ?] by [[Shaun Press]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], April 28, 1997 » [[Copy-Make]], [[Vanilla Chess]], [[KnightCap]]
* [http://www.chesschat.org//showthread.php?t=637 National Computer Chess Championships 2004] by [[Shaun Press]], [http://www.chesschat.org/archive/index.php/ Chess Chat], July 20, 2004 » [[NC3 2004]]
* [http://www.chesschat.org/archive/index.php/t-2637.html 2005 National Computer Chess Championships] by [[Shaun Press]], [http://www.chesschat.org/archive/index.php/ Chess Chat], July 17, 2005 » [[NC3 2005]]
: [http://www.chesschat.org//showpost.php?p=63437&postcount=10 Re: 2005 National Computer Chess Championships] by [[Shaun Press]], [http://www.chesschat.org/archive/index.php/ Chess Chat], July 17, 2005 » [[Point Value]]
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5583 Vanilla Chess by Shaun Press (1997) resurrected] by [[Jim Ablett]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], September 13, 2006 » [[Vanilla Chess]]
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Garybekker/Shaun_Press Shaun Press from Wikipedia]
* [https://plus.google.com/100802559958907689739/posts Shaun Press – Google+]
* [http://au.linkedin.com/in/shaunpress Shaun Press - LinkedIn]
* [http://www.youtube.com/user/shaunp64 Shaun Press - YouTube]
* [http://chessexpress.blogspot.com/ chessexpress - Shaun's Chess Blog]
: [http://chessexpress.blogspot.de/2007/07/tridge.html chessexpress: Tridge] by [[Shaun Press]], July 23, 2007 » [[Andrew Tridgell]], [[KnightCap]], [[Vanilla Chess]]
: [http://chessexpress.blogspot.de/2007/10/ow-my-brain-hurts.html chessexpress: Ow, my brain hurts] by [[Shaun Press]], October 03, 2007 » [[Tor Lattimore]]
* [http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=9100075 Press, Shaun FIDE Chess Profile - Players Arbiters Trainers]
* [http://www.chessgames.com/player/shaun_press.html The chess games of Shaun Press] from [http://www.chessgames.com/index.html chessgames.com]
* [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~shaun/ Shaun Press Home Page]
=References=
<references />
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