Valavan+Manohararajah

a Sri Lanka born, Canadian computer scientist and chess programmer, author of the chess program Rajah. He studied computer engineering at the University of Toronto, where he made his Masters Thesis in 2001 on //Parallel Alpha-Beta Search// and his Ph.D Thesis on //Area Optimizations in FPGA Architecture// under supervision of Zvonko Vranesic and [|Stephen Brown]. || toc =Photos= from Aegon 1997 by Thorsten Czub
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 * [[image:who.gif width="282" height="190" link="http://www.thorstenczub.de/aegon.html"]] ||~  || **Valavan Manohararajah**,
 * Valavan Manohararajah, Aegon 1997 ||~  ||^   ||
 * [[image:phengraja.gif link="http://www.thorstenczub.de/aegon.html"]] ||
 * [|Peng Zhaoqin] facing Rajah by Valavan Manohararajah ||
 * [[image:stefanrajax.gif width="486" height="653" link="http://www.thorstenczub.de/aegon.html"]] ||
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=Selected Publications=
 * Valavan Manohararajah (**1997**). //Rajah: The Design of a Chess Program.// ICCA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 87-91.
 * Valavan Manohararajah (**2001**). //Parallel Alpha-Beta Search on Shared Memory Multiprocessors//. Masters Thesis, [|pdf], [|pdf]
 * Valavan Manohararajah (**2005**). //Area Optimizations in FPGA Architecture and CAD//. Ph.D. Thesis, [|pdf]

=Forum Posts=
 * [|X88 board representations] by Valavan Manohararajah, rgcc, April 17, 1996 » 0x88
 * [|Quiescence search problems (solved)] by Valavan Manohararajah, rgcc, May 01, 1996 » Quiescence Search, Move Ordering
 * [|Incoporating chess knowledge in chess programs] by Valavan Manohararajah, rgcc, June 26, 1996
 * [|Computer Chess Hardware Design] by Valavan Manohararajah, rgcc, March 30, 1997
 * [|Misinformation about RAJAH in the ICCA] by Valavan Manohararajah, rgcc, April 5, 1997 » Rajah
 * [|Re: GNU Chess for Pilot?] by Valavan Manohararajah, rgcc, July 09, 1997 » GNU Chess
 * [|Anyone want to represent Rajah at the WMCCC?] by Valavan Manohararajah, rgcc, August 14, 1997

=External Links=
 * [|A Website by Valavan Manohararajah]

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