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an American electrical engineer and programmer. He holds a BS in [|electrical engineering] (1988), a M.Sc. in EE (1995), and a M.Sc. in [|systems engineering] (2000), all degrees from [|Virginia Tech]. John L. Jerz maintains a web site which contains a collection of information relating to chess, computers, problem solving, artificial intelligence and other subjects.
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=Future Mobility= In his article //A Proposed Heuristic for a Computer Chess Program//, John L. Jerz suggests to maintain a database of potential mobility for each chess piece three moves into the future and to evaluate positions accordantly. Progressive mobility is applicable via fill algorithms, where a bitboard of (safe) piece attacks of a sliding piece, a knight or a king is fed to appropriate set-wise attack generators, f.i. Dumb7Fill or Kogge-Stone algorithm for sliders.

=Selected Publications=
 * John L. Jerz (**2008, 2013**). //[|A Proposed Heuristic for a Computer Chess Program]//.
 * John L. Jerz (**2009, 2012**). //[|A Concept of Strategy Useful for Computer Game Playing]//.
 * John L. Jerz (**2012**). //[|The Case for Using Probabilistic Knowledge in a Computer Chess Program]//.

=External Links= > [|Does Rybka Properly Count Positions Evaluated?] > [|The chess program Rybka as a Rational Agent]
 * [|Welcome to my web site] by John L. Jerz
 * [|Computer Chess]
 * [|Computers, Chess and Long-range Planning by Botvinnik] » Mikhail Botvinnik
 * [|Edward Lasker on Computer Chess]
 * [|Chess Skill in Man and Machine (Frey, 1977)] » Chess Skill in Man and Machine
 * [|Computer Chess by David E. Welsh] » David E. Welsh
 * [|Principles of War]
 * [|Rybka Explained?] » Rybka
 * [|The Robert I. Reynolds Challenge (1986)] » Robert I. Reynolds

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