Volker Böhm, a German computer scientist and chess programmer. Along with his fellow Ralf Schäfer, Volker Böhm is author of the chess engine Spike [1], which incorporates ideas from Volker's former engine IceSpell and Schäfer's former program Cheetah, and surprisingly won the first Livingston Chess960 Computer World Championship, 2005, in Mainz [2][3].
Volker Böhm and Ralf Schäfer [4]

Photos

Volker Böhm (left) und Ralf Schäfer, Livigston Computer WM 2005 [5]

Forum Posts

• My fail soft reduces quality of collected PV. Help needed by Volker Böhm, CCC, April 20, 2004 » Fail-Soft, Principal Variation
• Spike´s first public availiable version by Volker Böhm, CCC, September 10, 2004
• Spike 1.0 Mainz released! by Volker Böhm, CCC, August 16, 2005
• Stockfish Singular Extension, does it make sense? by Volker Böhm, CCC, July 08, 2010 » Stockfish, Singular Extensions
• fulitiy + lmr; funny results by Volker Böhm, CCC, December 28, 2010 » Futility Pruning, Late Move Reductions

External Links

• Spike home
• Volker Böhm's ICGA Tournaments
• Spike 0.9 released, Interview with Volker Böhm and Ralf Schäfer by Frank Quisinsky, hosted by Arena Chess GUI 3.0 - Welcome to Arena, March 20, 2005 (German)

References

1. ^ Spike home
2. ^ Spike - Mainz 2005 Report
3. ^ Chess Classic - Spike is the first Chess960 Computer World Champion!
4. ^ Chess Classic - 2. Computer Weltmeisterschaft im Chess960 (German)
5. ^ ...weil Chess960 vom ersten Zug an spannend ist Die Chess960 Computer Weltmeister Volker Böhm und Ralf Schäfer im Gespräch. August 07, 2006 (German)

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