Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, a German computer scientist, professional computer chess programmer, and author of the world class chess engine Shredder [1]. In the early 90s Stefan was co-author of XXXX in coorperation with his fellow Martin Zentner, and began to develop his own program Shredder in 1995. After his success, winning the WMCCC 1996 in Djakarta, he started his professional career. Along with SOS author Rudolf Huber, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen designed the UCI protocol, which was released in 2000 [2].
Stefan Meyer-Kahlen [3]

Photos

Theo van der Storm and SMK, celebrating IPCCC 1998 [4]
Stefan Meyer-Kahlen talking with Axel Fritz about Pocket Fritz, 2001 [5]
Jean-Louis Boussin (right) is explaining the 'plan of attack' in Futé to Stefan and Gian-Carlo, WCCC 2005 Reykjavik [6]

Selected Publications

• Ingo Althöfer, Jens Lieberum, Johan de Koning, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Thomas Rolle, Jörg Sameith (2003). Five visualizations of the k-best mode. ICGA Journal, Vol. 26, No. 3 ^[7]

Forum Posts

• Autoplayer for Win32 (again) by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, CCC, September 12, 1998
• ELO performance? by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, CCC, May 22, 1999 » Match Statistics, Pawn Advantage, Win Percentage, and Elo, Playing Strength
• Definition of the Extended Autoplayer 232 Protocol by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, CCC, May 16, 2000 » Auto232
• EPD format by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, CCC, November 07, 2000 » Extended Position Description
• UCI (=universal chess interface) by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, CCC, November 28, 2000 » UCI
• Extension of the UCI protocol by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, CCC, April 15, 2004
• Deep Shredder 13 Windows out by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, CCC, October 30, 2016

External Links

SMK

• Stefan Meyer-Kahlen from Wikipedia
• Stefan Meyer-Kahlen's ICGA Tournaments
• Meet the Authors by Ed Schröder
• Who is Who at ChessBase from ChessBase auf Helgoland June 16, 2004
• Workshop Jena 2008: Analysis, Design, and Programming of Games pictorial report by Ingo Althöfer

Interviews

• Lokalverbot für Westentaschen-Großmeister - Interview mit Eric van Reem, 2001 (German)
• Interview with Stefan Meyer-Kahlen by Frank Quisinsky, 2006
• Shredder 10 now available - Interview with Shredder author Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, ChessBase News, May 26, 2006
• Interview mit Stefan Meyer-Kahlen by Michael Diosi, October 2007 (German)
• Interview mit dem Schach-Programmierer Stefan Meyer-Kahlen from Glarean Magazin, June 30, 2009 (German)
• Interview with Stefan Meyer-Kahlen by Frank Quisinsky, February 21, 2010 (German)

References

1. ^ Shredder Computer Chess
2. ^ UCI (=universal chess interface) by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, CCC, November 28, 2000
3. ^ Photo from the IPCCC 2000 Homepage
4. ^ Ein Besuch in Paderborn 1998 by Thorsten Czub
5. ^ Stefan Meyer-Kahlen interviewed by Axel Fritz (Schach.com), Chess Classic Mainz 2001, Photographer Gerhard Hund
6. ^ WCCC 2005 Photojournal by Anthony Cozzie
7. ^ K-Best Visualisations by Ingo Althöfer

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