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'''[[Main Page|Home]] * [[People]] * Volker Annuss'''
[[FILE:VolkerAnnuss.jpg|border|right|thumb|linkVolker Annuss <ref name="Arena">[http://wwwweb.playwitharenaarchive.comorg/web/20120106014724/?Partner_Chess_Engines:Hermann%26nbsp%3B| Volker Annuss <ref>[http://www.playwitharena.com/?Partner_Chess_Engines:Hermann%26nbsp%3B Arena Chess GUI for Linux and Windows - Hermann]([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine Wayback Machine])</ref> ]]
'''Volker Annuss''',<br/>
a German computer scientist and software developer, as computer chess programmer author of the chess engines [[Hermann]] <ref>[http://www.nnuss.de/Hermann/ Hermann webpage]</ref> and [[Arminius]]. As mentioned on the [[Arena]] site <ref>[http://www.playwitharena.com/?Partner_Chess_Engines:Hermann%26nbsp%3B name="Arena Chess GUI for Linux and Windows - Hermann]<"/ref>, Volker started chess programming in 1986 with the program '''Deep Thought''' for [[Atari ST]].
The only common thing with [[Deep Thought|another famous program]] was the name, the computer in [[:Category:Douglas Adams|Douglas Adams']] novel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy].
After a long break, Volker Annuss developed Hermann, using [[Bitboards|bitboards]] as basic data structure, and [[Neural Networks|neural networks]] for [[Material|material evaluation]] and [[Time Management|timing]] <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20050328050743/http://www.playwitharena.com:80/?Newsticker:Archive_6#86 Timing with a neural networkNeural Networks] by [[Volker Annuss]], March 23, 2005, [[Arena]], News-Ticker, Page 6, 86, FQ, March 23, 2005 ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine Wayback Machine])</ref>.
Since 2006, Volker regularly participates at [[CSVN]] tournaments in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiden Leiden], with Hermann, and since [[DOCCC 2011]] with the completely restructured successor Arminius <ref>[http://www.csvn.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=517%3Apandix-wint-open-nk&catid=51%3Atoernooien&Itemid=28&lang=en Pandix wins Dutch Open], [[CSVN]] site, October 22, 2011</ref>.
As of August 2017, Volker introduced [[Magic Bitboards#BlackMagics|Black Magic Bitboards]] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=64790 Black magic bitboards] by [[Volker Annuss]], [[CCC]], August 03, 2017</ref>.
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[[PT 51]]: [[Volker Annuss]] ([[Arminius]] 3rd), [[Harvey Williamson]] ([[HIARCS]] 1st) and [[Hans van der Zijden]] ([[Komodo]] 2nd) <ref>Photo by [[Jan Krabbenbos]], April 30, 2017, [http://www.csvn.nl/index.php/historie/programmeurstoernooien/762-ranking-51st-programmer-tournament CSVN Programmer Tournament 51], [[CSVN]] site</ref>
=Forum Posts=
* [http://talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=316926&t=31545 Re: Chess program with Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)?] by [[Volker Annuss]], [[CCC]], January 08, 2010 » [[Neural Networks]], [[Material]], [[Time Management]], [[Hermann]]
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=51162 Fixed shift magics with 800KB lookup table] by [[Volker Annuss]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], September, 05, 2010 » [[Magic Bitboards]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39407&start=30 Re: Programmers: what's the story behind the name of your engine] by [[Volker Annuss]], [[CCC]], June 21, 2011
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=436342&t=41300 Re: Is there place for neural networks in chess engines?] by [[Volker Annuss]], [[CCC]], December 04, 2011 » [[Neural Networks]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47242&start=17 Re: "panic time" and "easy moves"] by [[Volker Annuss]], [[CCC]], February 17, 2013 » [[Time Management]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=64790 Black magic bitboards] by [[Volker Annuss]], [[CCC]], August 03, 2017 » [[Magic Bitboards]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=69349 Arminius 2018-11-23 is out] by [[Volker Annuss]], [[CCC]], December 23, 2018
==2020 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=76184&start=15 Re: YBW engines past and present?] by [[Volker Annuss]], [[CCC]], January 09, 2021 » [[Lazy SMP]], [[Young Brothers Wait Concept]]
=External Links=
* [http://www.nnuss.de/Hermann/ Hermann webpage]
* [http://wwwweb.playwitharenaarchive.comorg/web/20050328050743/?Partner_Chess_Engines:Hermann%26nbsp%3B Arena Chess GUI for Linux and Windows - Hermann]* [http://www.playwitharena.com:80/?Newsticker:Archive_6#86 Timing with a neural networkNeural Networks] by [[Volker Annuss]], March 23, 2005, [[Arena]], News-Ticker, Page 6, 86, FQ, March 23, 2005 ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine Wayback Machine])
=References=
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