Marcel van Kervinck, a Dutch software engineer and metrology, actually Design Leader at MAPPER Lithography [1] and until 2009 at ASML Taiwan [2] . Marcel is author of the chess programs Rookie [3] , MSCP (Marcel’s Simple Chess Program) [4], and the UCI engine Floyd for study purposes [5], and author of the online opening database Bookie [6]. From December 2012 until November 2014 he was a member of the board of the CSVN.
Marcel van Kervinck [7]

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Marcel van Kervinck receives the Programmer's Prize [8] by CSVN chairman Cock de Gorter, DOCCC 2010

Selected Publications

• Marcel van Kervinck (2002). The design and implementation of the Rookie 2.0 Chess Playing Program. Masters Thesis, pdf ^[9]
• Marcel van Kervinck (2002). A pattern-recognition strategy for chess position evaluation. Slides from The design and implementation of the Rookie 2.0 Chess Playing Program.
• Marcel van Kervinck (2013). A fast software-based method for upcoming cycle detection in search trees. pdf preview » Repetitions ^[10]

Forum Posts

1994 ...

• move generators in computer chess, Tricky bit tricks post 7 by Marcel van Kervinck, rec.games.chess, October 20, 1994

2010 ...

• Inverse delta pruning by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, May 06, 2011
• Re: Programmers: what's the story behind the name of your engine by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, June 18, 2011
• Ahhh... the holy grail of computer chess by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, August 23, 2011
• Upcoming repetition detection by Marcel van Kervinck, OpenChess Forum, April 06, 2013 » Repetitions
• ICT13 programmer's report: Rookie v3.7 by Marcel van Kervinck, OpenChess Forum, June 04, 2013 » ICT 2013

2015 ...

• Some SMP measurements with Rookie v3 by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, February 05, 2015 » Rookie, Parallel Search
• Grafty vs Crafty by Marcel van Kervinck, Rybka Forum, April 21, 2015 » Crafty, Stockfish
• Name for elo without draws? by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, September 02, 2015 » Match Statistics
• Yet another KPK endgame table generator: pfkpk by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, September 05, 2015 » KPK, Endgame Bitbases ^[11]
• Floyd 0.5 released by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, Oct 11, 2015 » Floyd

External Links

• Marcel's web pages
• Marcel van Kervinck | LinkedIn
• kervinck (Marcel van Kervinck) · GitHub
• Marcel van Kervinck's ICGA Tournaments
• 8-bit color computer from TTL by Marcel van Kervinck, Hackaday.io, 2017 » Gigatron ^[12]

References

1. ^ Press Release - MAPPER
2. ^ Marcel van Kervinck | LinkedIn
3. ^ Index of /rookie
4. ^ MSCP - Marcel's Simple Chess Program
5. ^ Floyd 0.5 released by Marcel van Kervinck, CCC, Oct 11, 2015
6. ^ Index of /bookie
7. ^ kervinck (Marcel van Kervinck) · GitHub
8. ^ Programmersprize 2010
9. ^ Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis by Dann Corbit, CCC, August 19, 2002
10. ^ Upcoming repetition detection by Marcel van Kervinck, OpenChess Forum, April 06, 2013
11. ^ kervinck/pfkpk · GitHub
12. ^ The Gigatron project by Harm Geert Muller, CCC, December 06, 2017

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