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Russell Reagan,
an American software developer, chess programmer and author of apparently private chess engines ¹, early Bitboard promoter ², and until 2015 active poster in Computer Chess Forums. In 2004, Russell served as moderator in CCC ³.

Forum Posts

2000 ...

• Winboard for Dummies by Russell Reagan, rgcc, June 30, 2001 » WinBoard
• High NPS vs. Low NPS by Russell Reagan, CCC, November 25, 2001 » Nodes per Second
• Promotion frequency by Russell Reagan, CCC, July 23, 2002
• Re: Object-Oriented Chess Program by Russell Reagan, rgcc, August 31, 2002
• Re: attacks_from[] and attacks_to[] info by Russell Reagan, CCC, October 22, 2002 » Kogge-Stone Algorithm
• Re: Differences between 0x88, 10x12 and Bitboards!? by Russell Reagan, CCC, November 19, 2002 » 0x88, 10x12 Board, Bitboards
• Aspiration search, PVS by Russell Reagan, CCC, December 28, 2002 » Aspiration Windows, PVS, PVS and Aspiration
• kiwipete perft position by Russell Reagan, CCC, January 04, 2003 » Perft Results - kiwipete
• Testing the reliability of forward pruning by Russell Reagan, CCC, May 15, 2003 » Pruning, Engine Testing
• TSCP with bitboards by Russell Reagan, CCC, June 01, 2003 » TSCP
• PVS and MTD(f) branching factor by Russell Reagan, CCC, June 17, 2003 » PVS, MTD(f)
• Fail high reductions by Russell Reagan, CCC, July 01, 2003 » Fail-High Reductions
• Fail soft alpha-beta by Russell Reagan, CCC, September 08, 2003 » Fail-Soft

2005 ...

• Re: need suggestion for callable Chess engine by Russell Reagan, CCC, December 28, 2007
• Re: compact bitboard move generator by Russell Reagan, CCC, February 26, 2008 » Bitboard Serialization, Move Generation
• Speed/ELO relationship, and question to engine programmers by Russell Reagan, CCC, March 02, 2009 » Playing Strength

2010 ...

• Simple open source program wanted by Russell Reagan, CCC, June 06, 2010
• Go language by Russell Reagan, CCC, June 15, 2012 » Go (Programming Language)
• Virtualization and multi-processor engines by Russell Reagan, CCC, August 16, 2012
• Simplest bitboard attack generation by Russell Reagan, CCC, October 03, 2013 » Sliding Piece Attacks
• Are there any chess engines written in D? by Russell Reagan, CCC, October 12, 2013 » D (Programming Language)
• Reducing tablebase size with search by Russell Reagan, CCC, April 07, 2014 » Endgame Tablebases
• Move encoding by Russell Reagan, CCC, April 21, 2014 » Encoding Moves
• Position validity by Russell Reagan, CCC, May 04, 2014 » Chess Position

2015 ...

• Methods for playing human-like chess by Russell Reagan, CCC, April 07, 2015
• Automated comparison of human chess players by Russell Reagan, CCC, May 06, 2015

External Links

• Review by Russell Reagan on Pawn Power in Chess (Dover Chess) by Hans Kmoch, Amazons.com, August 18, 2001

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