Ed+Trice

an American electrical engineer, entrepreneur, chess and checkers player and programmer. He is inventor of the 10x8 chess variant Gothic Chess, which is similar to Capablanca Chess by adding an [|Archbishop] and [|Chancellor] but has a different starting position. In 2002, Ed Trice obtained U.S. Patent #6,481,716 for Gothic Chess. Already in the mid 80s, Ed Trice developed the chess program The Sniper which had a USCF rating of 2129 in January of 1990. Along with Gil Dodgen in the late 90s, he co-authored the checkers program //World Championship Checkers// which includes a 7-piece endgame database solved using the Distance To Win Metric for 19 billion positions, and an 8-piece database solved for Win-Loss-Draw data for 440 billion positions. The 8-piece database was further used to verify [|Chinook's] endgame databases. His Gothic Vortex Gothic Chess playing program won the 2004 and 2007 //Gothic Chess Computer World Championships//. || toc =Selected Publications=
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 * Ed Trice, Gil Dodgen (**2003**). //The 7-Piece Perfect Play Lookup Database for the Game of Checkers//. Advances in Computer Games 10
 * Ed Trice, Gil Dodgen (**2003**). //[|The Perfect 7-Piece Checkers Database]//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 26, No. 4
 * Ed Trice (**2004**). //80 Square Chess//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2
 * Ed Trice (**2004**). //The 2004 Gothic Chess Computer World Championship//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 27, No. 4

=Forum Posts=

2003 ...

 * [|For Dr. Robert Hyatt] by Ed Trice, CCC, December 30, 2003
 * [|More about the Gothic Vortex Program, $10,000 challenge] by Ed Trice, CCC, January 01, 2004
 * [|Unburying a Gothic Vortex Post] by Ed Trice, CCC, January 06, 2004
 * [|Perft (3) For Gothic Chess 25112] by Ed Trice, CCC, January 07, 2004
 * [|Perft 7 for Gothic Chess] by Ed Trice, CCC, January 26, 2004
 * [|Gothic Mate in 202 -- Archbishop vs. Bishop + Knight] by Ed Trice, CCC, February 06, 2004
 * [|Registration for Gothic Chess Computer Program Tournament] by Ed Trice, CCC, April 27, 2004
 * [|Tord or Reinhard, care to translate? :)] by Ed Trice, CCC, June 18, 2004
 * [|Re: MODERATION: Gothic Chess] by Ed Trice, CCC, June 21, 2004

2010 ...

 * [|Bitboard Tricks for Large Chess Variants] by Ed Trice, CCC, November 01, 2014
 * [|Gothic Vortex 2.2.9 (10x8 Gothic Chess) with 4 piece TBs] by Ed Trice, CCC, November 07, 2014
 * [|Checkers Is Strongly-Solved for 8-pieces] by Ed Trice, CCC, February 12, 2017 » Checkers, Endgame Tablebases
 * [|So who is an expert at making a Windows GUI?] by Ed Trice, CCC, February 15, 2017 » Windows
 * [|Search Halting Criteria When Probing Tablebases] by Ed Trice, CCC, March 02, 2017
 * [|Re: Chess Programming Wiki] by Ed Trice, CCC, February 21, 2018

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 * [|About Ed Trice: March 2009]
 * [|Ed Trice | LinkedIn]
 * [|Ed Trice on Twitter]
 * [|Ed Trice – Wikipédia.pt]
 * [|The chess games of Ed Trice] from [|chessgames.com]
 * Still Searching for [|Bobby Fischer] from [|The Interviewpoint], uploaded October 22, 2007, [|Ed Trice Video | Interviews], [|YouTube] Video

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