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F. Michael (Mike) Valenti,
a Canadian electrical engineer graduated from University of Toronto on the topic of chess programming. Along with his thesis supervisor Zvonko Vranesic ^[1], primary author of the chess program Chute (CHUTE - CHess, University of Toronto, Engineering), which participated four consecutive ACM North American Computer Chess Championships, ACM 1974, ACM 1975, ACM 1976 and ACM 1977 as well the 2nd WCCC Toronto 1977 ^[2].

Selected Publications

1974 ...

Michael Valenti (1974). CHUTE I, An Easily Modifiable Chess Playing Program. M.A.Sc. Thesis, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto.
George Hardy (1974). The Enhancement of the Positional Playing Capabilities of F.M. Valenti's Chess Program. BSc. Thesis, Division of Engineering Science Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto
Michael Valenti, Zvonko Vranesic (1977). Experiences with CHUTE. Proceedings of the ACM 1977 annual conference

Mike Valenti (1978). A program thesis. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 5, pp. 108 » Chute
Mike Valenti (1978). Valenti's Chess Program - Part II. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 6, pp. 93
Mike Valenti (1978). Computer Chess Programming. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 7, pp. 77
Mike Valenti (1978). Computer-Chess-Program-Thesis: Part III. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 7, pp. 84
Mike Valenti (1978). Part IV of Valenti Thesis on Chess. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 8, pp. 89
Mike Valenti (1978). Part V Chess Program. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 9, pp. 88
Mike Valenti (1978). Valenti's Chess Program. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 10, pp. 82
Mike Valenti (1978). Writing a Chess Program. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 11, pp. 22

Mike Valenti (1979). A Chess Program - Part VIII. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 73
Mike Valenti (1979). Valenti Chess Program - Part IX. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 50
Mike Valenti (1979). A Chess Program - Part X. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 64
Mike Valenti (1979). Chess Program - Part XI. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 5, pp. 56
Mike Valenti (1979). Writing a chess program - Part XII. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 7, pp. 82
Mike Valenti (1979). Writing a chess program - Part XIII. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 8, pp. 75

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