CPW birthday

[Gerd Isenberg]

On August 26, 2007, Mark Lefler founded the Chess Programming Wiki. So CPW is five years old today, still at wikispaces on the ad-free 50$/year plus plan, under the Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. While there are over 700 (most anonymous) members, I have probably annoyed early contributors with my edit addiction and possibly off topic videos. So please, authors of chess programs, I encourage you to write some small articles about you, your program, and whatever else (tournaments, endgame tablebases, search algorithms, etc.), or to expand already existing stubs, I would be happy to help with editing, so plain text is fine.

Suggestions and critique to make it better appreciated.

Gerd


Sadly, today I found Glen Pepicelli, famous for his Bitwise Optimization in Java: Bitfields, Bitboards, and Beyond article, died on May 10, 2012 on cancer.

[JuLieN]

Thx for your work, Gerd, and happy birthday CPW!!!

[Gerd Isenberg]

Thx for your work, Gerd, and happy birthday CPW!!!

Thank you. And also big thanks to all explicit and implicit contributors so far, fair use in mind. While a bit unorganized, pseudo scientific and chaotic, I'll hope its quite creative and entertaining, even if you are not a fusion Jazz fan like me. One further suggestion is to make CPW a repository for public domain open source snippets, which is de facto already true for some bitboard stuff with a clear 1:1 input-output relation, f.i. the now obsolete bitscan, popcount routines, etc.. For the "black art" of Evaluation and Search heuristics, there are some topics mentioned with some pseudo code. To say it with Frank Zappa, my pronunciation really sucks, and while a little bit on the tweeze side, our intentions are really good, and we'll try to do a wonderful job here in the Fatherland ...

Some were displeased why CPW makes no clear standing on Houdini origin and Robert Houdart, while being a bit harsh with Norman Schmidt or Vasik Rajlich. I was and am trying to be objective here, to quote or refer postings or other sources, and otherwise to avoid taking side in controversial issues.

I feel France (not to mention Italy, Spain, Russia ...) is a bit under representated in CPW, concerning tournaments, programmers, engines, universities related to computer chess or AI (which structure I still have not fully understand), and videos of course (there is only Jean-Luc Ponty mentioned).

Cheers,
Gerd

[Adam Hair]

I find CPW to be just as valuable to me, a non-programmer, as it has been to up and coming engine authors. Anything that I have grasped about how engines search chess game trees is due to CPW, as well as several other aspects of computer chess.

Thank you for your work, Gerd.

[michiguel]

Thx for your work, Gerd, and happy birthday CPW!!!

Thank you. And also big thanks to all explicit and implicit contributors so far, fair use in mind. While a bit unorganized, pseudo scientific and chaotic, I'll hope its quite creative and entertaining, even if you are not a fusion Jazz fan like me. One further suggestion is to make CPW a repository for public domain open source snippets, which is de facto already true for some bitboard stuff with a clear 1:1 input-output relation, f.i. the now obsolete bitscan, popcount routines, etc.. For the "black art" of Evaluation and Search heuristics, there are some topics mentioned with some pseudo code. To say it with Frank Zappa, my pronunciation really sucks, and while a little bit on the tweeze side, our intentions are really good, and we'll try to do a wonderful job here in the Fatherland ...

Some were displeased why CPW makes no clear standing on Houdini origin and Robert Houdart, while being a bit harsh with Norman Schmidt or Vasik Rajlich. I was and am trying to be objective here, to quote or refer postings or other sources, and otherwise to avoid taking side in controversial issues.

I feel France (not to mention Italy, Spain, Russia ...) is a bit under representated in CPW, concerning tournaments, programmers, engines, universities related to computer chess or AI (which structure I still have not fully understand), and videos of course (there is only Jean-Luc Ponty mentioned).

Cheers,
Gerd

CPW is one of the nicest things that happened to this hobby in the last few years.

Miguel

[Gerd Isenberg]

CPW is one of the nicest things that happened to this hobby in the last few years.

Miguel

Wow! That's quite a big compliment
Thank you!

Gerd

[Sean Evans]

Can I use this with Windows 7 and use it for ICC connection? I find ChessPartner is a rather average quality GUI.

Thanks

[Harvey Williamson]

Can I use this with Windows 7 and use it for ICC connection? I find ChessPartner is a rather average quality GUI.

Thanks

Why don't you actually take 5 minutes and check what this thread is about before posting spam.

[Gerd Isenberg]

CPW is one of the nicest things that happened to this hobby in the last few years.

Miguel

By the way, I recently recognized Clare Fischer's music piece Gaviota. You and as well as Fischer were affiliated with the Michigan State University. Is there some relation between Clare Fischer's music, the University, and the name of your program - or is it pure coincidence?

[JuLieN]

CPW is one of the nicest things that happened to this hobby in the last few years.

Miguel

By the way, I recently recognized Clare Fischer's music piece Gaviota. You and as well as Fischer were affiliated with the Michigan State University. Is there some relation between Clare Fischer's music, the University, and the name of your program - or is it pure coincidence?

Haha, good catch! Shall we ask TMZ to make an enquiry on Miguel's ladies?