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an American professional software engineer and avocational chess programmer, who resides in Belgium. He studied [|mathematics], [|computer science], [|systems] and [|network engineering] at [|University of Massachusetts], and [|music] at [|Boston Conservatory] and [|Berklee College of Music]. Concerning computer chess, he is proponent of not [|reinventing the wheel], and has cooperated with the Ippolit and RobboLito comrades and Decembrists, and led the effort to debug, stabilize, and improve Ippolit source code releases, translated RobboLito from [|Italo-Albanian] dialect to English, and put RobboLito versions and his own derivate Fire under the GNU GPL. Beside IvanHoe, he hosts his own Fruit and Toga derivative Cyclone, and works with Dmitri Gusev and Matthew R. Brades on Firenzina.
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=Derivatives= In 2008, Norman Schmidt tried to distribute his //Fruit and Toga// derivative xyclOps commercially until it was suspected as clone by Matthias Gemuh and others. After Norman Schmidt freely volunteered to refund his customers, he announced //Cyclone based on Fruit and Toga// as open source engine. Further derivative programs by Norman Schmidt were //TogaToy//, //Cyclops// , //Alderon//, //Demon//, and //Crimson//, based on Viper.

=ChessLogik= Norman Schmidt operated and maintained the ChessLogik.com site since 2007, which has distributed his projects and other open-source chess engines to hobbyists. Claiming fair-mindedness and many programs and the chess community have taken benefit from his contributions and improvements, he substantiates the suspicion that Houdini 1.0 by Robert Houdart is based on his and Sentinel's GNU public licensed RobboLito 0.085g3. Due to that accusation of misuse, and the Espin case with the SquarknII clone their Robbolito versions as well as Fire, are no longer available for download from the ChessLogik sites.

=Forum Posts=

2008

 * [|Re: Strelka Reverse Engineered from Rybka: Details Examined] by Norman Schmidt, CCC, May 31, 2008
 * [|xyclOps 1.2 is available] by Norman Schmidt, CCC, July 05, 2008
 * [|Re: xyclOps, a clone ?] by Norman Schmidt, CCC, July 11, 2008
 * [|open apology to the chess engine community] by Norman Schmidt, CCC, July 12, 2008
 * [|Cyclone 1.0 beta] by Norman Schmidt, CCC, July 26, 2008
 * [|Cylone 1.0 beta now available] by Norman Schmidt, CCC, July 27, 2008
 * [|Cyclone 1.0 and Cyclops 1.0 available] by Norman Schmidt, CCC, August 04, 2008
 * [|Derivatives are real programs too] by Norman Schmidt, CCC, August 04, 2008
 * [|Here's something to start with] by Norman Schmidt, CCC, August 26, 2008 » Rybka, Rybka Controversy
 * [|GPL guideline] by Norman Schmidt, CCC, August 29, 2008

2009

 * [|TogaToy 1.0] by Norman Schmidt, CCC, July 04, 2009
 * [|Crimson 1.1 available] by Norman Schmidt, CCC, July 05, 2009

2010 ...

 * [|Re: Deep Saros 2.3c5 Free UCI Engine is out] by Norman Schmidt, CCC, Apr 14, 2011 » Roberto Munter, Deep Saros
 * [|Houdini, Fire, IvanHoe, (and Rybka?) are 'clones'...?] by Norman Schmidt, CCC, April 30, 2011
 * [|Re: Houdini with 1:1 Robbolito-code?] by Norman Schmidt, CCC, October 12, 2011
 * [|I don't get it...] by Norman Schmidt, CCC, October 18, 2011 » Ippolit, Strelka

2015 ...

 * [|Open-source improvements released] by Norman Schmidt, CCC, June 26, 2017 » Fridolin, Bobcat, Gull

=External Links= > [|GitHub - FireFather/jinx: chess engine based on Fridolin 2.0] » Fridolin > [|GitHub - FireFather/tomcat: chess engine based on Bobcat 8.0] » Bobcat, > [|GitHub - FireFather/seagull: chess engine based on Gull 3] » Gull
 * [|www.chesslogik.com]
 * [|Fire – the chess engine releases a new version], Chessdom, October 02, 2017 » TCEC Season 10
 * [|FireFather · GitHub] by Norman Schmidt

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