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'''[[Main Page|Home]] * [[People]] * Will Singleton'''
'''Will Singleton''', (Willie Wood) <ref>[https://www.familytreenow.com/records/people/singleton/pamela/rjmwk1v4-sqlvkho3as6mw Pamela Singleton - Pacific Palisades, California] has William Singleton Wood, born 1953, as possible relative</ref> <br/>
an American [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_estate real estate] developer and amateur chess programmer <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=40836 Re: Bionic Vs Crafty Debate: some data required] by [[Will Singleton]], [[CCC]], January 25, 1999</ref>. Already in 1978 Will wrote his first chess program in [[6502]] [[Assembly|assembly]] to run on an [[Apple II]] computer <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=13763 Re: LCT II Fin4, Deep Thought, and Deep Blue (was Re: LCT II results...)] by [[Will Singleton|Willie Wood]], [[CCC]], January 07, 1998</ref>, expanded in 1986 on the [[68000]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=40780 Re: Bionic Vs Crafty Debate: some data required] by [[Will Singleton]], [[CCC]], January 25, 1999</ref>. End of the 90s he started to port his program to [[C]] which evolved to the engine [[Amateur]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=12937 Has this name been used before?] by [[Will Singleton|Willie Wood]], [[CCC]], December 12, 1997</ref>, compatible with [[Fixation]] <ref>[http://cknelsen.sasktelwebsite.net/fixation/Amateur.html Fixation: Amateur Chess Engine]</ref> running on a [[Macintosh]], and the [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]].
