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		James Swafford, an American computer scientist and software developer, with a Bachelor's and Master's degree in CS from East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. As computer chess programmer, James is author the chess engines Tristram, Galahad, and Prophet. He started writing C to write a better chess program (first attempts were in Pascal), not to "learn C" ^[1]. More recently James works on a project to explore Java and Amazon technologies by building a highly scalible chess engine dubbed chess4j ^[2].
James Swafford ^[3]

Publications

James Swafford (2002). Optimizing Parameter Learning using Temporal Differences. AAAI-02, Student Abstracts, pdf
James Swafford (2008). A Survey of Parallel Search Algorithms over Alpha-Beta Search Trees using Symmetric Multiprocessor Machines. Masters Project, East Carolina University, advisor Ronnie Smith

Forum Posts

Page	Date Edited
ACCA 2007	Jul 14, 2014
ACCA 2008	Jul 14, 2014
Aspiration Windows	Nov 1, 2017
Branching Factor	Jun 28, 2017
CCT Tournaments	Jan 29, 2017
CCT1	Dec 30, 2012
CCT10	May 5, 2013
CCT11	Feb 17, 2015
CCT3	Feb 14, 2013
CCT7	Dec 16, 2017
CCT8	Apr 6, 2013
CCT9	Aug 25, 2013
chess4j	Jan 1, 2018
Chris Moreton	Jul 30, 2017
Copy-Make	May 23, 2017
Cpp	Oct 24, 2017
Double Null Move	May 8, 2015
Galahad	Jan 8, 2015
Hash Table	Jan 1, 2018
James Swafford	Jan 1, 2018
Jon Dart	Dec 17, 2017
Move Ordering	Feb 27, 2018
Parallel Search	Dec 30, 2017
Passed Pawn Extensions	May 11, 2015
People	Feb 28, 2018
Prophet	Sep 30, 2017
Pseudorandom number generator	May 11, 2017
Robert Hyatt	Dec 25, 2017
SMP	Dec 26, 2017
Temporal Difference Learning	Feb 20, 2018
Thread	Apr 22, 2018
Transposition Table	Apr 19, 2018
Tristram	Jan 29, 2014
WCRCC 2008	Nov 21, 2016
Will Singleton	Mar 6, 2015
Zobrist Hashing	Jan 22, 2018

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