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Tom King

Tom King,
a British computer scientist in the information security management , and computer games programmer . Tom is author of the Chess Engine Communication Protocol compatible chess engine Francesca .

Publications

• Tom King (2000). Shredder wins the 17th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3 » Shredder, WMCCC 2000

Forum Posts

1997 ...

• Null move depth reductions by Tom King, rgcc, February 02, 1997 » R, Null Move Pruning
• 32bits - enough for hashing board? by Tom King, rgcc, January 13, 1998 » Zobrist Hashing
• Null move around (beta-1, beta) by Tom King, rgcc, March 05, 1999 » Null Move Pruning
• Asymetric king safety by Tom King, rgcc, March 13, 1999 » Asymmetric Evaluation, King Safety
• SEE for forward pruning in Q. Search by Tom King, CCC, August 04, 1999 » SEE, Quiescence Search
• SEE for forward pruning in the Q. search - I'm confused! by Tom King, CCC, August 11, 1999
• Test suites - can they reliably predict ELO? by Tom King, CCC, December 11, 1999 » Test-Positions

2000 ...

• Fail highs..which subsequently fail low by Tom King, CCC, August 27, 2000 » Fail-High, Fail-Low, Search Instability
• Move ordering at root of search by Tom King, CCC, May 07, 2001 » Move Ordering
• Null move R=2 vs Null move R=2/3 by Tom King, CCC, August 09, 2001 » R, Null Move Pruning
• Value of playing different versions of a program against each other by Tom King, CCC, January 06, 2003 » Engine Testing

2005 ...

• history pruning/ late move pruning by Tom King, Winboard Forum, March 02, 2006 » Late Move Reductions
• Francesca MAD v0.11 Released by Tom King, CCC, March 06, 2006
• Verified null-move pruning by Tom King, Winboard Forum, March 09, 2006 » Verified Null-Move Pruning

2010 ...

• static null move pruning in stockfish by Tom King, CCC, June 13, 2010 » Null Move Pruning, Stockfish
• move count based pruning by Tom King, CCC, September 02, 2010 » Late Move Reductions
• Most important eval elements by Tom King, CCC, September 17, 2010 » Evaluation
• Using SEE to prune in main search by Tom King, CCC, January 08, 2011 » SEE
• value of king tropism in eval function by Tom King, CCC, May 17, 2011 » King Safety

2015 ...

• After an 8 year break.. by Tom King, CCC, December 30, 2018
• Simplest way to implement quick and dirty lazy smp by Tom King, CCC, January 04, 2019 » Lazy SMP
• Null move pruning, only when score >= beta? by Tom King, CCC, January 25, 2019 » Null Move Pruning
• Depth reduced but ELO increased by Tom King, CCC, March 16, 2019 » Countermove Heuristic, Playing Strength
• ELO value of TTSE? by Tom King, CCC, December 29, 2019 » TTSE

2020 ...

• Endgame woes by Tom King, CCC, February 07, 2020 » Draw Evaluation
• Searching fail highs shallower.. by Tom King, CCC, March 02, 2020 » Fail-High

External Links

• Tom King's ICGA Tournaments
• Silentshark - Tom King's personal website
• Tom King - LinkedIn

References

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