Bruce Moreland
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Bruce Moreland [1]
Bruce Moreland,
an American computer scientist, former Microsoft employee and computer chess programmer, author of Ferret, one of the strongest chess engines at its time [2] . Bruce published the open source chess program Gerbil for educational purpose, and maintained a great computer chess programming site. The Gerbil site [3] and programming topics are archived by the Wayback Machine [4].
Photos & Games
WCCC 1999: Bruce Moreland, Frans Morsch, Matthias Wüllenweber, Ferret - Fritz [5] [6]
[Event "WCCC 1999"] [Site "Paderborn, Germany"] [Date "1999.06.19"] [Round "7"] [White "Ferret"] [Black "Fritz"] [Result "1-0"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 Be7 9.Qd2 Nbd7 10.g4 h6 11.h4 b5 12.O-O-O Nb6 13.Be2 b4 14.Nb1 Nfd7 15.Qxb4 d5 16.Qa5 d4 17.Bf2 Qc7 18.f4 Bxb3 19.axb3 Rc8 20.c3 Nc5 21.Kc2 Nxe4 22.Bg1 f6 23.Bd3 Nc5 24.Bg6+ Kf8 25.fxe5 fxe5 26.b4 Ncd7 27.Qa2 Qc4 28.Qxc4 Nxc4 29.Kb3 a5 30.Bf5 Ke8 31.bxa5 Nxa5+ 32.Ka2 Nc6 33.cxd4 Nb4+ 34.Kb3 Rb8 35.Nc3 Nd3+ 36.Kc2 Nxb2 37.Ra1 Nc4 38.Ra7 Rd8 39.Nb5 Nf8 40.Kc3 Nd6 41.Nc7+ Kf7 42.dxe5 Nxf5 43.gxf5 Kg8 44.Bd4 Rh7 45.e6 h5 46.Kc4 Rc8 47.Kd3 Rd8 48.Ke4 g6 49.fxg6 Rxd4+ 50.Kxd4 Rg7 51.Nd5 Nxe6+ 52.Ke5 Bd6+ 53.Kxd6 1-0
Publications
- Bruce Moreland (1995). various articles in Computer Chess Reports Vol. 5 No. 3+4
- Still more Chess Computer Memories. pp. 34
- Chess Life as Consumer Reports. pp. 34
- The Computer Strength and Weakness. pp. 69
- The Art of Tweaking. pp. 69
- The Value of Computers vs Computer Results. pp. 71
- Computer Problem Solving. pp. 86
Forum Post
- Repetition detection w/hash tables by Bruce Moreland, rec.games.chess, August 14, 1993 » Repetitions, Transposition Table
- Computer chess books by Bruce Moreland, rgcc, February 05, 1997
- Chess program similarity experiment by Bruce Moreland, CCC, January 24, 1999 » Bionic Impakt, Crafty
- Re: Ferret/Gerbil question by Bruce Moreland, CCC, September 21, 2001
- Strength question by Bruce Moreland, CCC, January 05, 2003
- Why I am not going to the Graz WCCC by Bruce Moreland, CCC, April 01, 2003 » WCCC 2003, Chrilly Donninger
- Re: Mate scores in the hash table by Bruce Moreland, Winboard Forum, September 04, 2005 » Mate Scores, Transposition Table
External Links
- Bruce Moreland's Programming Topics archived by the Wayback Machine
- Bruce Moreland's Gerbil archived by the Wayback Machine
- Bruce Moreland's ICGA Tournaments
References
- ↑ Aegon 1996-97 by Thorsten Czub
- ↑ Ferret's ICGA Tournaments
- ↑ Bruce Moreland's Gerbil
- ↑ Bruce Moreland's Programming Topics
- ↑ Photo from the no longer available ChessBase site
- ↑ Paderborn 1999 - Chess - Round 7 - Game 10 (ICGA Tournaments)
