Steffan Westcott, a British software engineer, who brought many innovations into chess programming, mostly in bitboards. His ideas likely have a background in graphics programming.
Steffan Westcott [1]

Innovations

• All Shortest Paths ^[2]
• Flood Fill Algorithms ^[3]
• Kogge-Stone Algorithm ^[4]
• Parallel Prefix Algorithms

See also

• Design Principles

Forum Posts

2000 ...

• Re: algorithm question by Steffan Westcott, CCC, September 09, 2002 » Flood Fill Algorithms
• All shortest paths & other flood-fill based algorithms by Steffan Westcott, CCC, September 13, 2002 » All Shortest Paths
• Re: flood fill attack bitboards by Steffan Westcott, CCC, September 15, 2002 » Kogge-Stone Algorithm
• Bitboard algorithm design principles by Steffan Westcott, CCC, October 23, 2002 » Design Principles
• Re: significant math by Steffan Westcott, CCC, November 20, 2002
• Re: Bitboards, pre-computing moves, and blocked squares? by Steffan Westcott, CCC, November 30, 2004

2005 ...

• Re: algorithm question by Steffan Westcott, CCC, February 27, 2006 » Traversing Subsets of a Set
• Re: Some thoughts on Dann Corbit's rotated alternative by Steffan Westcott, CCC, March 03, 2006 » Occupancy of any Line
• Re: Zobrist key random numbers by Steffan Westcott, CCC, January 22, 2009 » Zobrist Hashing
• Re: On Zobrist keys by Steffan Westcott, CCC, June 22, 2009 » Zobrist Hashing

2010 ...

• Re: Possible Board Presentation and Move Generation for GPUs by Steffan Westcott, CCC, March 20, 2011 » GPU

References

1. ^ Steffan Westcott from LinkedIn
2. ^ All shortest paths & other flood-fill based algorithms by Steffan Westcott, CCC, September 13, 2002
3. ^ Re: algorithm question by Steffan Westcott, CCC, September 09, 2002
4. ^ Re: flood fill attack bitboards by Steffan Westcott, CCC, September 15, 2002

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