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		Reinhard Scharnagl, († August 2015) was a German computer chess programmer, and author of the chess program SMIRF. Reinhard was pioneer in Fischer Random Chess (FRC / Chess960) ^[1] as well for chess variants with other board sizes like 10x8. On August 01, 2015 he posted on his Google+ site that he survived three weeks of chemotherapy and radiation therapy fighting brain tumor ^[2]. Reinhard Scharnagl died in August 2015 ^[3] ^[4].
Reinhard Scharnagl ^[5]

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Publications

Reinhard Scharnagl (2004). Fischer-Random-Schach: (FRC/Chess 960). Books on Demand, ISBN: 3833413220, 9783833413223 (German)

Forum Posts

2000 ...

Re: ASCII Board representation by Reinhard Scharnagl, CCC, December 08, 2003
Re:On SMIRF by Reinhard Scharnagl, CCC, December 30, 2004

2005 ...

for Reinhard Scharnagl about Chess960 by Matthias Gemuh, CCC, July 18, 2005
Best BitBoard LSB funktion? by Reinhard Scharnagl, Winboard Forum, July 20, 2005 » BitScan
Scharnagl from Munich, Germany by Octopus, Rybka Forum, September 18, 2007
Search extensions at promising trajectories by Reinhard Scharnagl, CCC, May 28, 2008 » Extensions

2010 ...

Computerschach mit monochromen Methoden ? by Reinhard Scharnagl, OpenChess - Deutsches Forum, January 27, 2011 (German)
Starting to use the Winboard Protocol by Reinhard Scharnagl, Winboard Forum, December 11, 2011
SMIRF engine project terminated by Reinhard Scharnagl, CCC, January 22, 2012
Smirf 8x8/10x8 on USB Stick by Octopus, OpenChess Forum, March 16, 2012
Little progress on SMIRF's successor program by Reinhard Scharnagl, CCC, September 28, 2014

2015

Some Chess960/FRC positions to be confirmed by Reinhard Scharnagl, CCC, February 09, 2015 » Chess960, Perft Results
Detail evaluation within quiescence search by Reinhard Scharnagl, CCC, February 22, 2015
hanging piece at starting quiescence search - how to handle? by Reinhard Scharnagl, CCC, February 22, 2015 » Hanging Piece, Quiescence Search

External Links

References

^ Chess960 from Wikipedia
^ Reinhard Scharnagl - Google+
^ Please delete my account / Octopus by Sebastian Scharnagl, Rybka Forum, April 08, 2016
^ Reinhard Scharnagl passed away by Herbert L, CCC, April 09, 2016
^ Reinhard Scharnagl - Google+

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Page	Date Edited
BitScan	Sep 10, 2017
Capture Extensions	Oct 26, 2012
Chess Engine Communication Protocol	Mar 4, 2018
Chess960	Sep 27, 2016
ChessV	Jan 21, 2018
Color Flipping	May 17, 2017
Extensions	Apr 19, 2018
Forsyth-Edwards Notation	Sep 10, 2017
Graphics Programming	Dec 22, 2017
Hanging Piece	Jan 14, 2017
People	Feb 28, 2018
Perft	Sep 26, 2017
Perft Results	Feb 10, 2018
Quiescence Search	Aug 19, 2017
Recapture Extensions	Feb 2, 2013
Reinhard Scharnagl	Apr 9, 2016
Smirf	Apr 10, 2016
Trajectory	Jan 3, 2015

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