Ernst A. Heinz, a German computer scientist affiliated with the UMIT, Hall in Tirol [1], and previously with the International University (IU) Bruchsal [2]. In 1993, Ernst A. Heinz and Peter Gillgasch, two students at the University of Karlsruhe, founded a computer-chess group and started to write a chess program, the rotated bitboard engine DarkThought [3], in 1994 joined by Markus Gille [4]. In 1997 Heinz started to write some recognized papers in the ICCA Journal, which were summarized and extended into his 1999 Ph.D thesis Scalable Search in Computer Chess, a revised version merchandised as book. From 1999 until 2002 Ernst A. Heinz was postdoc at MIT [5].
Ernst A. Heinz [6]

Scalable Search Topics

• AEL-Pruning
  • Adaptive Null Move Pruning
  • Extended Futility Pruning
  • Limited Razoring
• Perfect Knowledge
  • Interior Node Recognizer
  • Endgame Tablebases
    • Edwards' Tablebases
    • Nalimov Tablebases
    • Thompson's Databases
• Diminishing Returns
• DarkThought
  • Bitboards
  • Rotated Bitboards

Selected Publications

1992 ...

• Ernst A. Heinz (1992). Automatische Elimination von Synchronisationsbarriere in synchronen FORALLs. M.Sc. thesis, University of Karlsruhe, advisor Michael Philippsen (German)

1995 ...

• Michael Philippsen, Ernst A. Heinz (1995). Automatic Synchronization Elimination in Synchronous FORALLs. Frontiers'95
• Lutz Prechelt, Ernst A. Heinz, Paul Lukowicz, Walter F. Tichy (1995). Experimental Evaluation in Computer Science: A Quantitative Study. Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 28, No. 1
• Ernst A. Heinz (1997). How DarkThought Plays Chess. ICCA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3
• Ernst A. Heinz (1998). Extended Futility Pruning. ICCA Journal, Vol. 21, No. 2
• Ernst A. Heinz (1998). Efficient Interior-Node Recognition. ICCA Journal, Vol. 21, No. 3
• Ernst A. Heinz (1998). DarkThought Goes Deep. ICCA Journal, Vol. 21, No. 4
• Ernst A. Heinz (1999). Endgame Databases and Efficient Index Schemes for Chess. ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1, ps
• Ernst A. Heinz (1999). Knowledgeable Encoding and Querying of Endgame Databases. ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 2, ps
• Ernst A. Heinz (1999). Adaptive Null-Move Pruning. ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3, ps
• Ernst A. Heinz (1999). Scalable Search in Computer Chess. Ph.D. thesis, University of Karlsruhe, advisor Walter F. Tichy ^[10] and Tony Marsland
• Ernst A. Heinz (1999). Scalable Search in Computer Chess. Morgan Kaufmann, Vieweg-Verlag ^[11]

2000 ...

• Ernst A. Heinz (2000). AEL Pruning. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1, pdf
• Eugene Nalimov, Guy Haworth, Ernst A. Heinz (2000). Space-Efficient Indexing of Chess Endgame Tables. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3, postscript
• Ernst A. Heinz (2000). A New Self-Play Experiment in Computer Chess. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory of Computer Science, Technical Memo No. 608, zipped ps, pdf
• Ernst A. Heinz (2000). New Self-Play Results in Computer Chess. CG 2000
• Ernst A. Heinz (2001). Self-play Experiments in Computer Chess Revisited. Advances in Computer Games 9
• Ernst A. Heinz (2001). Modeling the “Go Deep” Behaviour of CRAFTY and DARK THOUGHT. Advances in Computer Games 9
• Eugene Nalimov, Guy Haworth, Ernst A. Heinz (2001). Space-efficient Indexing of Endgame Tables for Chess. Advances in Computer Games 9
• Ernst A. Heinz (2001). Selected Goodies of DarkThought. Invited Lecture, 6th Computer Olympiad Workshop, ppt
• Ernst A. Heinz (2001). Self-Play, Deep Search and Diminishing Returns. ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2
• Ernst A. Heinz (2003). Follow-Up on Self-Play, Deep Search, and Diminishing Returns. ICGA Journal, Vol. 26, No. 2
• Ernst A. Heinz (2003). Static Recognition of Potential Wins in KNNKB and KNNKN. Advances in Computer Games 10
• Jaap van den Herik, Hiroyuki Iida, Ernst A. Heinz (Eds.) (2004). Advances in Computer Games, Many Games, Many Challenges. 10th International Conference, ACG 2003, Graz, Austria, November 24-27, 2003, Revised Papers. Series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Vol. 135
  

2005 ...

• Ernst A. Heinz, Kai S. Kunze, Matthias Gruber, David Bannach, Paul Lukowicz (2006). Using Wearable Sensors for Real-Time Recognition Tasks in Games of Martial Arts - An Initial Experiment. CIG 2006
• David Bannach, Oliver Amft, Kai S. Kunze, Ernst A. Heinz, Gerhard Tröster, Paul Lukowicz (2007). Waving Real Hand Gestures Recorded by Wearable Motion Sensors to a Virtual Car and Driver in a Mixed-Reality Parking Game. CIG 2007

External Links

• Ernst's WWW Pages
• Ernst Heinz' ICGA Tournaments

References

1. ^ David Bannach, Oliver Amft, Kai S. Kunze, Ernst A. Heinz, Gerhard Tröster, Paul Lukowicz (2007). Waving Real Hand Gestures Recorded by Wearable Motion Sensors to a Virtual Car and Driver in a Mixed-Reality Parking Game. CIG 2007
2. ^ Unternehmen Hochschule: Privatuni in Bruchsal ist pleite, Spiegel Online, July 22, 2009 (German)
3. ^ Rotated Bitboards from Ernst A. Heinz (1997). How DarkThought Plays Chess. ICCA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3
4. ^ Ernst A. Heinz - Professional Experience
5. ^ Ernst A. Heinz's old personal pages at MIT
6. ^ Computer-WM: Erste Überraschung, ChessBase.de November 22, 2003, WCCC 2003, Advances in Computer Games 10
7. ^ ICGA Reference Database(pdf)
8. ^ Scientific Articles in Books and Journals
9. ^ dblp: Ernst A. Heinz
10. ^ IPD Tichy - Prof. Dr. Ernst Heinz
11. ^ Dap Hartmann (2000). The Importance of being Scalable. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1, Review

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