Will Singleton

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Will Singleton, (Willie Wood)
an American real estate developer and amateur chess programmer . Already in 1978 Will wrote his first chess program in 6502 assembly to run on an Apple II computer , expanded in 1986 on the 68000 . End of the 90s he started to port his program to C which evolved to the engine Amateur , compatible with Fixation running on a Macintosh, and the Chess Engine Communication Protocol.

Forum Posts

1997

• pv score oscillation by Willie Wood, CCC, October 18, 1997 » Odd-Even Effect, Principal Variation, Tempo
• Mobility in eval by Willie Wood, CCC, November 24, 1997 » Mobility
• Has this name been used before? by Willie Wood, CCC, December 12, 1997 » Amateur

1998

• Re: LCT II Fin4, Deep Thought, and Deep Blue (was Re: LCT II results...) by Willie Wood, CCC, January 07, 1998
• Winboard for the Mac by Willie Wood, CCC, January 22, 1998 » WinBoard, Macintosh
• stupid programmer by Will Singleton, CCC, February 20, 1998
• trouble getting tt tables working by Will Singleton, CCC, March 06, 1998 » Transposition Table
• tt table progress by Will Singleton, CCC, March 11, 1998
• Only Mac interface? by Will Singleton, CCC, June 02, 1998
• Redoing search, need help by Will Singleton, CCC, November 05, 1998
• null-move failure detection by Will Singleton, CCC, November 19, 1998 » Null Move Pruning
• Ply 1 scoring factors by Will Singleton, CCC, December 07, 1998 » Oracle
• Under 2600 Club by Will Singleton, CCC, December 07, 1998
• Re: CCC Moderators Elected!! by Will Singleton, CCC, December 30, 1998

1999

• Something good to report by Will Singleton, CCC, February 22, 1999
• Fail-soft with PVS? by Will Singleton, CCC, March 09, 1999 » Fail-Soft, Principal Variation Search
• G4 & AltiVec by Will Singleton, CCC, October 04, 1999 » AltiVec, PowerPC
• ICC Green List - Nov 29 by Will Singleton, CCC, November 29, 1999  » Internet Chess Club
• challenge to Will Singleton - Amateur by Vincent Diepeveen, CCC, December 03, 1999

2000 ...

• ICC Green List - Jan 3 by Will Singleton, CCC, January 03, 2000 » Internet Chess Club
• typical nps on single cpus by Will Singleton, CCC, February 13, 2000 » Nodes per Second
• amateur experiment by Will Singleton, CCC, March 26, 2000
• New versions of Fixation and Amateur released by Will Singleton, CCC, August 29, 2000
• a classic from Will Singleton by James Swafford, CCC, October 23, 2001 » LambChop, WCCC 1999
• ICC CCT2 by Will Singleton, CCC, October 26, 2000 » CCT2
• Re: Amateur new winboard engine by Will Singleton, CCC, July 12, 2002

2005 ...

• chess 7.0 by Will Singleton, CCC, October 16, 2008 » Chess 7.0
• questions on using cutechess by Will Singleton, CCC, November 19, 2009
• winboard engine config popup by Will Singleton, Winboard Forum, November 19, 2009 » WinBoard
• wrong draw claim or right? by Will Singleton, CCC, December 03, 2009 » Repetitions
• amd k7 by Will Singleton, CCC, December 23, 2009
• odd behavior by Will Singleton, Winboard Forum, December 30, 2009

External Links

• Fixation: Amateur Chess Engine
• Singleton (surname) from Wikipedia
• Singleton disambiguation page from Wikipedia

References

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