Thanks
Contributors
Testing is conducted by Kirill Kryukov, who also created this web-site.
I would like to thank other computer chess enthusiasts for suggestions and discussion:
Graham Banks, Ray Banks, Shaun Brewer, Charles Smith, Sarah Bird, Aser Huerga,
H.G. Muller, Jim Ablett, Adam Hair
Authors of various chess software I used
Odd Gunnar Malin made very useful adapters
Wb2Uci and
InBetween.
Remi Coulom created a wonderful tool
Bayeselo.
I use it to compute the rating lists, LOS figures and performances.
David J. Barnes created
PGN Extract
which I use to perform opening classification of the game database.
Gabriel Guillory created
PgnScanner.
Eugene Nalimov and Andrew Kadatch constructed the "Nalimov Tablebases".
Daniel Shawul created Scorpio bitbases.
I also thank members of EGTB Online project
for making those endgame tablebases freely available online.
Norm Pollock made handy tools called
"40H PGN Utilities".
Opening books used in this tournament were created by
Harry Schnapp
and Chesslib.
The biggest thanks go to the authors of the original chess engines,
who also shared them with the world freely:
Enrique Sanchez Acosta, Richard Allbert, Peter Alloysius, Juan Pablo Fernandez Alvarez, Leen Ammeraal, Benny Antonsson, Edsel Apostol, Christian Barreteau, Steffen Basting, Max Bauer, Ryan Benitez, Casper W. Berg, Michel Van den Bergh, Albert Bertilsson, Johnny Bigert, Uri Blass, Erdi Ata Bleda, Volker Bohm, Michael Borgstadt, Martin Borriss, Christos Boussios, Ross Boyd, Lucas Braesch, Martin Bryant, Romain Burgot, Dieter Burssner, Vadim Bykov, Carlos del Cacho, Carmelo Calzerano, Guillermo Carvalho, Fabio Cavicchio, Philipp Classen, Federico Andres Corigliano, Claudio Della Corte, Remi Coulom, Anthony Cozzie, Stuart Cracraft, Piotr Dachtera, David Dahlem, Tijs van Dam, Alessandro Damiani, Martin Danielsson, Jon Dart, Ben Dean-Kawamura, Manuel Diaz, Antonio Dieguez, Dusan Dobes, Alejandro Dubrovsky, Sean Empey, Peter Fendrich, Helmut Fett, Martin Fierz, Sune Fischer, Tim Foden, Josue Forte, Klaus Friedel, Jean-Christophe Gabillard, Jose Carlos Martinez Galan, Jean-Francois Gazet, Matthias Gemuh, Martin Giepmans, Marco Giusfredi, Thorsten Greiner, Neels Groenewald, Gabriel Guillory, Jacob Hales, Bas Hamstra, Daniel C. Homan, Dan Honeycutt, Peter Horvath, Rudolf Huber, Shane Hudson, Marc-Philippe Huget, Johan Hutting, Robert Hyatt, Werner Inmann, Miguel Izquierdo, Christophe Jolly, Radoslaw Kamowski, Francois Karr, Jean-Philippe Karr, Niyaz Khasanov, Patrick M. King, Tom King, Jan Klima, Chua Kong-Sian, Roman Korba, Alexey Korneychuk, Igor Korshunov, Jonathan Kreuzer, Jean-Yves Lallemand, Andrea Lanza, Tor Lattimore, Michael Lawatsch, Fabien Letouzey, Tom Likens, Alex Lobanov, Robert Lubczynski, Bruno Lucas, Harald Luessen, Stef Luijten, Matthias Luscher, George Lyapko, Ivan Maklyakov, Andres Manzanares, Sergei Markoff, Steve Maughan, Mike Maxim, Anton Maydell, Thomas Mayer, Thomas McBurney, Peter McKenzie, Matt McKnight, Daniel Mehrmann, Johan Melin, Tomasz Michniewski, Anastasios Milikas, Jim Monaghan, Bruce Moreland, Chris Moreton, Alex Morozov, Frans Morsch, Harm Geert Muller, Mathias Muller, Ron Murawski, Luca Naddei, Aleksandar Naumov, Pallav Nawani, Sergei Nefedov, Pham Hong Nguyen, Mikko Nummelin, Eric Oldre, Marco Pagnoncelli, Rahman Paidar, Salvador Pallares, Gian-Carlo Pascutto, Arkadiusz Paterek, Lance Perkins, Maciej Pestka, Roland Pfister, Richard Pijl, Rudolf Posch, Marcus Prewarski, Kamil Przybyla, David Rabel, Landon W. Rabern, Chan Rasjid, David Rasmussen, Adrien Regimbald, Gerrit Reubold, Fritz Reul, Luigi Ripamonti, Nicola Rizzuti, Erik Robertsson, Jean Francois Romang, Tord Romstad, Toma Roncevic, Peter Rosendahl, Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz, Severi Salminen, Maurizio Sambati, Aleksandrs Saveljevs, Mauro Scarpa, Ralf Schafer, Frank Scharn, Francois Scheurer, Frank Schneider, Ed Schroder, Alessandro Scotti, Antonio Senatore, Daniel Shawul, Michael Sherwin, Grzegorz Sidorowicz, Allard Siemelink, Will Singleton, Kai Skibbe, Samuel Slutzky, Daniel Sparks, Marek Strejczek, Johanes Suhardjo, Antoni Szczepanski, Omid David Tabibi, Franck Tempet, Eric Triki, Ulrich Turke, Per-Ola Valfridsson, George Varentsov, Koundinya Veluri, Joel Veness, Tom Vijlbrief, Martin Villwock, Eric Walstra, Andrew Williams, Laurens Winkelhagen, Franck Zibi, Georg v. Zimmermann, Stefan Zipproth, Johannes Zwanzger.
Other software used in this study
Software used for file and database management:
- FAR - File manager by Eugene Roshal and FAR Team
- FarColorer - Syntax highlighting plugin by Igor Russkih
- 7-Zip - Archiver by Igor Pavlov
- FileZilla - FTP client by Tim Kosse and FileZilla dev. team
- WinSCP - FTP, SFTP and SCP client by Martin Prikryl
Software used for processing and web-site creation
Other incredibly useful free software I use every day:
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