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Stuart Cracraft

Stuart Cracraft,
an American computer scientist and cloud DevOps, also affiliated with Apple Inc. and Wells Fargo . As computer chess programmer, Stuart Cracraft is primary author of GNU Chess Version 1, starting the development in the mid 80s , and author of Gazebo which was later incorporated into GNU Chess 5. In 1984, Stuart Cracraft published on bitboard move generation in the ICCA Journal .

Publications

• Stuart Cracraft (1984). Bitmap move generation in Chess. ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 3
• Stuart Cracraft (1987). Microcomputer Chess: Has It Reached a New Milestone? ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1 » Novag Expert, Novag Forte, Super Constellation

Forum Posts

1985

• ACM Computer Chess Championship by Stuart Cracraft, Usenet, November 2, 1985 » ACM 1985

1990 ...

• GNU Chess 1.55 ready by Stuart Cracraft, gnu.chess, January 2, 1990
• GNU Chess 1.55 vs. Fidelity Mach 3 by Stuart Cracraft, gnu.chess, January 3, 1990
• Re: IBM PC front end for GNU chess by Stuart Cracraft, gnu.chess, December 17, 1990
• GNU Chess wins London computer chess tourney by Stuart Cracraft, gnu.chess, August 17, 1992 » UPCCC 1992
• Re: An Open Letter to Computer Chess Programmers by Stuart Cracraft, rgc, January 02, 1994 » Gazebo
• Re: GNU Chess v4.0 by Stuart Cracraft, rgc, January 16, 1994

1995 ...

• Re: request ... by Stuart Cracraft, gnu.chess, June 16, 1995 » GNU Chess
• bitboard move generation question by Stuart Cracraft, rgcc, September 05, 1997
• Deep Blue eval function tuning technique by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, January 08, 1998 » Deep Blue
• Automated Tuning by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, January 12, 1998 » Automated Tuning
• Pattern Matching -- Avoiding Hand-Tuning by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, January 21, 1998
• King Safety by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, April 22, 1998

2000 ...

• MTD(f) by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, July 26, 2004 » MTD(f)
• Enhanced Transposition Cutoff by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, July 28, 2004 » Enhanced Transposition Cutoff
• Delta Pruning by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, August 10, 2004
• pawn structure, pawn hash, square-of-pawn, pawn-races by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, August 19, 2004
• triangular pv vs. hash move pv by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, September 11, 2004
• singular extension by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, September 15, 2004 » Singular Extensions
• The Null Move Killer by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, September 29, 2004
• Futility by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, October 14, 2004
• Futility Prune question by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, October 17, 2004

2005 ...

• Chess program improvement project (copy at TalkChess/ICD) by Stuart Cracraft, Winboard Forum, March 07, 2006 » Win at Chess
• Where to put timeout() code in search? by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, July 18, 2007 » Time Management
• How to Best Limit Checks in the Quiescence ? by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, August 20, 2007 » Check, Checks in Quiescence Search
• Null Move by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, November 23, 2007 » Null Move Pruning
• Lisp chess by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, March 15, 2008
• An Oldie but a Goodie by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, August 16, 2008 » History
• future mobility evaluation term by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, December 01, 2008 » Mobility
• Kudos to Tord on Glaurung for iPhone by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, February 28, 2009 » Glaurung

2010 ...

• hiatus good for bug-finding by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, June 27, 2010 » Engine Testing

2015 ...

• automated tuning by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, March 13, 2017 » Automated Tuning
• Managing draws in the tree search by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, March 26, 2017 » Draw
• random evaluation perturbation factor by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, April 24, 2017
• horrid positional play in a solid tactical searcher by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, April 29, 2017
• methods for tuning coefficients by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, October 28, 2018 » Automated Tuning

2020 ...

• romantic-style play by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, August 02, 2020 » Evaluation
• leela by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, March 29, 2021 » Leela Chess Zero, Banksia GUI, iPhone

External Links

• Stuart Cracraft | LinkedIn
• Stuart Cracraft - A Cloud Guru Profile

References

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