Roman Hartmann, a Swiss civil engineer with focus on underground and hydraulic engineering [1], and as avocational computer chess programmer author of the UCI compliant chess engine ROCE (Roman's Own Chess Engine), which became a reference engine for Perft and Divide [2]. His 2004 Matura thesis is about Programming a Computer to Play Chess [3].
Roman Hartmann [4]

Publications

• Roman Hartmann (2004). Die Programmierung eines Computers für das Schachspiel. Matura thesis, pdf (German)

Forum Posts

• perft results (how accurate is accurate enough ?) by Roman Hartmann, CCC, September 23, 2004
• huge speedup by using pointers instead of arrays by Roman Hartmann, CCC, September 28, 2004
• Should we have a second forum to post all the tournament results? by Roman Hartmann, CCC, February 19, 2006
• WCRCC-Report by Roman Hartmann, CCC, June 23, 2008 » WCRCC 2008
• Anyone into literate programming? by Roman Hartmann, CCC, January 26, 2015
• Re: A perft(7) challenge position by Roman Hartmann, CCC, April 08, 2016

External Links

• Home of Roce
  ROCE - Roman's Own Chess Engine

References

1. ^ Fromm + Partner - Team
2. ^ Regarding perft/divide
3. ^ Roman Hartmann (2004). Die Programmierung eines Computers für das Schachspiel. Matura thesis, pdf (German)
4. ^ Clipped from the image of Roman Hartmann (about me) photographed by Manfred Rüdiger

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