Barend+Swets

a Dutch engineer and early computer chess programmer, who already started computer chess programming in 1966. His knowledge based chess program Bs6676 was the first Dutch chess program and subject of his thesis under Adriaan de Groot. Bs6676 played the ECCC 1976, the WCCC 1977, the ACM 1978 and ACM 1979, the unofficial Dutch championship matches in 1979 and 1980 and the First Dutch Computer Chess Championship in 1981. Barend Swets was the promoter and one of the founders of the ICCA, and started the ICCA Newsletter along with Ben Mittman in 1978. || toc =Quotes=
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=Publications=
 * Barend Swets (**1977**). //Computers in de opmars//. Schakend Nederland 09-1977 (Dutch), [|pdf] hosted by Hein Veldhuis » Bs6676, WCCC 1977
 * Barend Swets, Henk Koppelaar (**1978**). //[|Schaken met Kunstmatige Intelligente]//. [|Intermediair], Vol. 14, No. 19 (Dutch)
 * Barend Swets, Henk Koppelaar (**1978**). //De Struktuur van Schaakprogramma's//. Informatie, Vol. 20, No. 6 (Dutch)
 * Barend Swets, Henk Koppelaar (**1979**). //[|Schakend zand : de Chip als Toekomstig Schaak-Grootmeester]//. [|Intermediair], Vol. 15, No. 24 (Dutch)
 * [|Max Pam] (**1980**). //[|"Na verloop van tijd ga je weleens denken, dat er een mens in zit" - Barend Swets over het programmeren van menselijk denken]//, [|Schaakbulletin] nr. 150, mei 1980, hosted by [|Schaakcomputers en computerschaak - Diversen] by [|Luuk Hofman] (Dutch)

=External Links=
 * [|Barend Swets' ICGA Tournaments]
 * [|2. Europäische Computer-Schachmeisterschaft], August 11, 1978, Computerwoche 33/1978 (German)

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