Tom+King

a British computer scientist in the information security management. As computer chess programmer Tom is author of the Chess Engine Communication Protocol compatible chess engine Francesca. || toc =Publications=
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 * Tom King (**2000**). //Shredder wins the 17th World Microcomputer Chess Championship//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3 » Shredder, WMCCC 2000

=Forum Posts=

1997 ...

 * [|Null move depth reductions] by Tom King, rgcc, February 02, 1997 » R, Null Move Pruning
 * [|32bits - enough for hashing board?] by Tom King, rgcc, January 13, 1998 » Zobrist Hashing
 * [|Null move around (beta-1, beta)] by Tom King, rgcc, March 05, 1999 » Null Move Pruning
 * [|Asymetric king safety] by Tom King, rgcc, March 13, 1999 » Asymmetric evaluation, King Safety
 * [|SEE for forward pruning in Q. Search] by Tom King, CCC, August 04, 1999 » SEE, Quiescence Search
 * [|SEE for forward pruning in the Q. search - I'm confused!] by Tom King, CCC, August 11, 1999
 * [|Test suites - can they reliably predict ELO?] by Tom King, CCC, December 11, 1999 » Test-Positions

2000 ...

 * [|Fail highs..which subsequently fail low] by Tom King, CCC, August 27, 2000 » Fail-High, Fail-Low, Search Instability
 * [|Move ordering at root of search] by Tom King, CCC, May 07, 2001 » Move Ordering
 * [|Null move R=2 vs Null move R=2/3] by Tom King, CCC, August 09, 2001 » R, Null Move Pruning
 * [|Value of playing different versions of a program against each other] by Tom King, CCC, January 06, 2003 » Engine Testing

2005 ...

 * [|history pruning/ late move pruning] by Tom King, Winboard Forum, March 02, 2006 » Late Move Reductions
 * [|Francesca MAD v0.11 Released] by Tom King, CCC, March 06, 2006
 * [|Verified null-move pruning] by Tom King, Winboard Forum, March 09, 2006 » Verified Null-Move Pruning

2010 ...

 * [|static null move pruning in stockfish] by Tom King, CCC, June 13, 2010 » Null Move Pruning, Stockfish
 * [|move count based pruning] by Tom King, CCC, September 02, 2010 » Late Move Reductions
 * [|Most important eval elements] by Tom King, CCC, September 17, 2010 » Evaluation
 * [|Using SEE to prune in main search] by Tom King, CCC, January 08, 2011 » SEE
 * [|value of king tropism in eval function] by Tom King, CCC, May 17, 2011 » King Safety

=External Links=
 * [|Tom King's ICGA Tournaments]
 * [|Silentshark - Tom King's personal website]
 * [|Tom King - LinkedIn]

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