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[[FILE:DonBeal1986.JPG|border|right|thumb| Don Beal, [[WCCC 1986]] <ref>[[László Lindner]], A SZÁMÍTÓGÉPES SAKK KÉPEKBEN című melléklete - The pictures of the Beginning of Chess Computers</ref> ]]
'''Donald Francis (Don) Beal''',<br/>
a British computer scientist and computer games researcher, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emeritus Emeritus] staff from the [[Queen Mary, University of London|Queen Mary and Westfield College]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London London], Department of Computer Science <ref>[http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/staff/people2.php?t=emeritus School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science - Honorary, Retired and Visiting Staff]</ref>. Don Beal researched and published on various computer chess related topics, for instance [[Search Pathology|search pathology]], [[Null Move Pruning#NMQS|null move quiescence search]], [[Integrated Bounds and Values|integrated bounds and values]], [[Temporal Difference Learning|temporal difference learning]] and [[Retrograde Analysis|retrograde analysis]]. Selected publications were summarized in his Ph.D. thesis ''The Nature of MINIMAX Search'' <ref>[[Don Beal]] ('''1999'''). ''The Nature of MINIMAX Search''. Ph.D. thesis</ref> , he was author and co-author of several chess programs competing at various [[Tournaments|CC Tournaments]], and was long time board member of the [[ICCA]] as Secretary-Treasurer <ref>[[Jaap van den Herik]] ('''2000'''). ''[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/contents/content23-4.htm#FROM%20COGNITION From Cognition to Perception]''. [[ICGA Journal#23_4|ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 4]]</ref>, contributor of multiple [[Conferences|Advances in Computer Chess Conferences]], as well as editor of the [[Advances in Computer Chess 4|ACC 4]], [[Advances in Computer Chess 5|ACC 5]] and [[Advances in Computer Chess 6|ACC 6]] conference proceedings. Don Beal advocated and organized [[Uniform-Platform Computer Chess Championship]] <ref>[http://old.csvn.nl/uni_hist.html QMW "Uniform Platform" Computer-Chess Tournament] from the old [[CSVN]] site</ref>, an approach to compare programs without hardware dependence.
=Photos=
[[FILE:DonBeal.JPG|none|border|text-bottom|580px|link=http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/publication_archive_1983.html]]
Don Beal's [[BCP]] still in the assembly stage, 1983 <ref>Image by [[Tony Harrington]], from: [[Tony Harrington]] ('''1983'''). ''Alphabetical Chess''. [[Personal Computer World]], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/publication_archive_1983.html June 1983], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/PCW_June_1983.pdf pdf] hosted by [[Mike Watters]]</ref>
[[FILE:Beal_Thompson_Newborn_Botvinnik_WCCC_New_York_1983.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|580px|link=http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbe3f6f0]]
Don Beal, [[Ken Thompson|Thompson]], [[Monroe Newborn|Newborn]] and [[Mikhail Botvinnik|Botvinnik]], [[WCCC 1983]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbe3f6f0 Photo] Gift of [[Monroe Newborn]] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>
=Don's Programs=
Don Beal is author and co-author of following chess programs <ref>[https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=35 Don Beal's ICGA Tournaments]</ref> :
* [[Beal]]
* [[BCP]]
* [[Delicate Brute]]
* [[Cilkchess]]
and the [[Lines of Action]] program:
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=238 Apprentice]
=See also=
* [[Integrated Bounds and Values]]
* [[Null Move Pruning#NMQS|Null Move Quiescence Search]]
* [[Retrograde Analysis]]
* [[Search Pathology]]
* [[Search with Random Leaf Values]]
* [[Temporal Difference Learning]]
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/b/Beal:Donald_F=.html DBLP: Donald F. Beal]</ref> <ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf ICGA Reference Database] (pdf)</ref> <ref>[http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/staff/publist.php?d=don Don Beal's Publications]</ref>
==1978==
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1978'''). ''Handicapping Computer Chess Programs''. [[ICGA Journal#1_2|ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 2]]
==1980 ...==
* [[Don Beal]], [[Mike Clarke]] ('''1980'''). ''The Construction of Economical and Correct Algorithms for King and Pawn against King''. [[Advances in Computer Chess 2]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1980'''). ''An analysis of minimax'' in [[Advances in Computer Chess 2]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1982'''). ''Benefits of minimax search'' in [[Advances in Computer Chess 3]]
* [[Tony Harrington]] ('''1983'''). ''Alphabetical Chess''. [[Personal Computer World]], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/publication_archive_1983.html June 1983] » [[BCP]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1983'''). ''Recent progress in understanding minimax search''. in Proceedings of ACM National Conference, New York, October 1983
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1984'''). ''Mixing Heuristic and Perfect Evaluations: Nested Minimax''. [[ICGA Journal#7_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1984'''). ''Mating Sequences in the Quiescence Search''. [[ICGA Journal#7_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 3]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1986'''). ''Selective Search without Tears.'' [[ICGA Journal#9_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1986'''). ''Turbo GameWorks: Tools for Turbo Pascal''. (Review) [[ICGA Journal#9_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2]] » [[Turbo Chess]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1989'''). ''Experiments with the Null Move.'' [[Advances in Computer Chess 5]], a revised version is published ('''1990''') under the title ''A Generalized Quiescence Search Algorithm''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 43, No. 1, edited version in ('''1999'''). ''The Nature of MINIMAX Search''. Ph.D. thesis, Chapter 10
* [[David Levy]], [[Don Beal]] (Eds.) ('''1989'''). ''Heuristic Programming in Artificial Intelligence - The First Computer Olympiad''. Ellis Horwood » [[1st Computer Olympiad#Workshop|1st Computer Olympiad]]
==1990 ...==
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1990'''). ''A Generalized Quiescence Search Algorithm''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 43, No. 1
* [[David Levy]], [[Don Beal]] (Eds.) ('''1991'''). ''Heuristic Programming in Artificial Intelligence - The Second Computer Olympiad''. Ellis Horwood » [[2nd Computer Olympiad#Workshop|2nd Computer Olympiad]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1991'''). ''Report on the 11th World Microcomputer Chess Championship''. [[ICGA Journal#14_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2]] » [[WMCCC 1991]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1991'''). ''Report on the 22nd ACM International Computer Chess Championship''. [[ICGA Journal#14_4|ICCA Journal, Vol. 14, No. 4]] » [[ACM 1991]]
* [[John Roycroft]], [[Don Beal]] ('''1991'''). ''To Make Dumb Endgame Databases Speak''. [[Advances in Computer Chess 6]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1992'''). ''The 1992 QMW Uniform-Platform Autoplay Computer-Chess Tournament''. [[ICGA Journal#15-3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3]] » [[UPCCC 1992]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1993'''). ''Report on the QMW 1993 Uniform-Platform Computer-Chess Championship.'' [[ICGA Journal#16_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3]] » [[UPCCC 1993]] <ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess/browse_frm/thread/51267e26536fa912 QMW computer chess] by [[Don Beal]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rec.games.chess]], August 19, 1993</ref>
* [[Don Beal]], [[Martin C. Smith]] ('''1994'''). ''Random Evaluations in Chess''. [[ICGA Journal#17_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1]]
* [[Don Beal]], [[Martin C. Smith]] ('''1994'''). ''Random Evaluations in Chess''. [[Advances in Computer Chess 7]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1994'''). ''The QMW's Uniform-Platform Computer-Chess Tournament''. [[ICGA Journal#17_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1994'''). ''Report on the QMW Uniform-Platform World Championship 1994''. [[ICGA Journal#17_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3]] » [[UPCCC 1994]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1995'''). ''An Integrated-Bounds-and-Values (IBV) Numeric Scale for Minimax Searches.'' [[ICGA Journal#18_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2]] » [[Integrated Bounds and Values]]
* [http://www.ece.ust.hk/%7Eeetsang/ Hin-Kwok Tsang] and [[Don Beal]] ('''1995'''). ''The 8th World Computer-Chess Championship''. [[ICGA Journal#18_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2]] » [[WCCC 1995]]
* [[Don Beal]], [[Martin C. Smith]] ('''1995'''). ''Quantification of Search-Extension Benefits.'' [[ICGA Journal#18_4|ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 4]]
* [[Don Beal]], [[Martin C. Smith]] ('''1996'''). ''Multiple Probes of Transposition Tables''. [[ICGA Journal#19_4|ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4]]
* [[Don Beal]], [[Martin C. Smith]] ('''1997'''). ''Learning Piece Values Using Temporal Differences''. [[ICGA Journal#20_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3]]
* [[Don Beal]], [[Martin C. Smith]] ('''1998'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-48957-6_7 First Results from Using Temporal Difference Learning in Shogi]''. [[CG 1998]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1999'''). ''The 9th World Computer-Chess Championship: the Search-Engine Features of the Programs''. [[ICGA Journal#22_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3]] » [[WCCC 1999]]
* [[Don Beal]], [[Martin C. Smith]] ('''1999'''). ''Learning Piece-Square Values using Temporal Differences.'' [[ICGA Journal#22_4|ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 4]]
* [[Don Beal]], [[Martin C. Smith]] ('''1999'''). ''[http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1624299 Temporal Coherence and Prediction Decay in TD Learning]''. [[Conferences#IJCAI1999|IJCAI 1999]], [http://ijcai.org/Past%20Proceedings/IJCAI-99-VOL-1/PDF/081.pdf pdf]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1999'''). ''The Nature of MINIMAX Search''. Ph.D. thesis, IKAT, [[Maastricht University]], [https://project.dke.maastrichtuniversity.nl/games/files/phd/Beal_thesis.pdf pdf]
==2000 ...==
* [[Don Beal]], [[Martin C. Smith]] ('''2001'''). ''Temporal difference learning applied to game playing and the results of application to Shogi''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical_Computer_Science_%28journal%29 Theoretical Computer Science], Vol. 252, Nos. 1-2
* [[Ren Wu]], [[Don Beal]] ('''2001'''). ''Computer Analysis of some Chinese Chess Endgames''. [[Advances in Computer Games 9]]
* [[Ren Wu]], [[Don Beal]] ('''2001'''). ''[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/contents/content24-3.htm#FAST Fast, Memory-efficient Retrograde Algorithms]''.[[ICGA Journal#24_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=200335 Generating egtbs ICGAJ] by [[Tony van Roon-Werten|Tony Werten]], [[CCC]], December 04, 2001, with reference to [http://www.abc.se/~m10051/eg.txt Computing endgames with few men] by [[Urban Koistinen]]</ref> <ref>[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6302&p=29956 Wu / Beal retrograde analisys algorithm] by [[Alvaro Cardoso|Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], March 10, 2007</ref>
* [[Ren Wu]], [[Don Beal]] ('''2001'''). ''Parallel Retrograde Analysis on Different Architectures''. in IEEE 10th Conference in High Performance Distributed Computing, August 2001
* [[Ren Wu]], [[Don Beal]] ('''2001'''). ''Solving Chinese Chess Endgames by Database Construction''. Information Sciences, Vol. 135, Nos. 3-4
* [[Don Beal]] ('''2002'''). ''Learn from your opponent - but what if he/she/it knows less than you?'' in [[Jean Retschitzki]], [[Rosita Haddad-Zubel]] (eds.) ''Step by Step''.
* [[Ren Wu]], [[Don Beal]] ('''2002'''). ''A memory efficient retrograde algorithm and its application to solve Chinese Chess endgames.'' in [[Richard J. Nowakowski]] (ed.) [http://library.msri.org/books/Book42/ More Games of No Chance]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''2006'''). ''[[File:alg1986review.txt|Review of a nullmove-quiescence search mechanism from 1986]]''. (Draft) <ref>courtesy of [[Don Beal]] and [[Carey Bloodworth]], [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58603&start=13 Re: Antique chess programs] by [[Carey Bloodworth|Carey]], [[CCC]], December 16, 2015</ref>
=Forum Posts=
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess/browse_frm/thread/27b2b2c3427e9a33 computer chess tournament] by [[Don Beal]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rec.games.chess]], May 15, 1992
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess/browse_frm/thread/410c1904c91f9138 QMW uniform-platform computer chess tournament] by [[Don Beal]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rec.games.chess]], August 18, 1992 » [[UPCCC 1992]]
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess/browse_frm/thread/51267e26536fa912 QMW computer chess] by [[Don Beal]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rec.games.chess]], August 19, 1993 » [[UPCCC 1993]]
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess/xIvJfi92jMc/BQP231Z0V84J Re: Human VS computer] by [[Don Beal]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rec.games.chess]], July 11, 1994 » [[Search with Random Leaf Values]]
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess/browse_frm/thread/4d44088f41d4ceca World Computer Chess Championship] by [[Don Beal]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rec.games.chess]], March 16, 1995 » [[WCCC 1995]]
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/browse_frm/thread/89dcb0515d906deb ICCA issues] by [[Don Beal]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], January 27, 1997 » [[ICCA]], [[ICGA]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=390268 Re: mate threat extension/null move] by [[Don Beal]], [[CCC]], October 04, 2004 » [[Mate Threat Extensions]], [[Null Move Pruning|Null Move]] and [[Win at Chess|WAC]] booster
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29439 Null move in quiescence search idea from Don Beal, 1986] by [[Eelco de Groot]], [[CCC]], Aug 17, 2009 » [[Null Move Pruning#NMQS|Don Beal's Null Move Quiescence Search]]
=External Links=
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=35 Don Beal's ICGA Tournaments]
=References=
<references />
'''[[People|Up one level]]'''
[[FILE:DonBeal1986.JPG|border|right|thumb| Don Beal, [[WCCC 1986]] <ref>[[László Lindner]], A SZÁMÍTÓGÉPES SAKK KÉPEKBEN című melléklete - The pictures of the Beginning of Chess Computers</ref> ]]
'''Donald Francis (Don) Beal''',<br/>
a British computer scientist and computer games researcher, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emeritus Emeritus] staff from the [[Queen Mary, University of London|Queen Mary and Westfield College]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London London], Department of Computer Science <ref>[http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/staff/people2.php?t=emeritus School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science - Honorary, Retired and Visiting Staff]</ref>. Don Beal researched and published on various computer chess related topics, for instance [[Search Pathology|search pathology]], [[Null Move Pruning#NMQS|null move quiescence search]], [[Integrated Bounds and Values|integrated bounds and values]], [[Temporal Difference Learning|temporal difference learning]] and [[Retrograde Analysis|retrograde analysis]]. Selected publications were summarized in his Ph.D. thesis ''The Nature of MINIMAX Search'' <ref>[[Don Beal]] ('''1999'''). ''The Nature of MINIMAX Search''. Ph.D. thesis</ref> , he was author and co-author of several chess programs competing at various [[Tournaments|CC Tournaments]], and was long time board member of the [[ICCA]] as Secretary-Treasurer <ref>[[Jaap van den Herik]] ('''2000'''). ''[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/contents/content23-4.htm#FROM%20COGNITION From Cognition to Perception]''. [[ICGA Journal#23_4|ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 4]]</ref>, contributor of multiple [[Conferences|Advances in Computer Chess Conferences]], as well as editor of the [[Advances in Computer Chess 4|ACC 4]], [[Advances in Computer Chess 5|ACC 5]] and [[Advances in Computer Chess 6|ACC 6]] conference proceedings. Don Beal advocated and organized [[Uniform-Platform Computer Chess Championship]] <ref>[http://old.csvn.nl/uni_hist.html QMW "Uniform Platform" Computer-Chess Tournament] from the old [[CSVN]] site</ref>, an approach to compare programs without hardware dependence.
=Photos=
[[FILE:DonBeal.JPG|none|border|text-bottom|580px|link=http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/publication_archive_1983.html]]
Don Beal's [[BCP]] still in the assembly stage, 1983 <ref>Image by [[Tony Harrington]], from: [[Tony Harrington]] ('''1983'''). ''Alphabetical Chess''. [[Personal Computer World]], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/publication_archive_1983.html June 1983], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/PCW_June_1983.pdf pdf] hosted by [[Mike Watters]]</ref>
[[FILE:Beal_Thompson_Newborn_Botvinnik_WCCC_New_York_1983.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|580px|link=http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbe3f6f0]]
Don Beal, [[Ken Thompson|Thompson]], [[Monroe Newborn|Newborn]] and [[Mikhail Botvinnik|Botvinnik]], [[WCCC 1983]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbe3f6f0 Photo] Gift of [[Monroe Newborn]] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>
=Don's Programs=
Don Beal is author and co-author of following chess programs <ref>[https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=35 Don Beal's ICGA Tournaments]</ref> :
* [[Beal]]
* [[BCP]]
* [[Delicate Brute]]
* [[Cilkchess]]
and the [[Lines of Action]] program:
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=238 Apprentice]
=See also=
* [[Integrated Bounds and Values]]
* [[Null Move Pruning#NMQS|Null Move Quiescence Search]]
* [[Retrograde Analysis]]
* [[Search Pathology]]
* [[Search with Random Leaf Values]]
* [[Temporal Difference Learning]]
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/b/Beal:Donald_F=.html DBLP: Donald F. Beal]</ref> <ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf ICGA Reference Database] (pdf)</ref> <ref>[http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/staff/publist.php?d=don Don Beal's Publications]</ref>
==1978==
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1978'''). ''Handicapping Computer Chess Programs''. [[ICGA Journal#1_2|ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 2]]
==1980 ...==
* [[Don Beal]], [[Mike Clarke]] ('''1980'''). ''The Construction of Economical and Correct Algorithms for King and Pawn against King''. [[Advances in Computer Chess 2]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1980'''). ''An analysis of minimax'' in [[Advances in Computer Chess 2]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1982'''). ''Benefits of minimax search'' in [[Advances in Computer Chess 3]]
* [[Tony Harrington]] ('''1983'''). ''Alphabetical Chess''. [[Personal Computer World]], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/publication_archive_1983.html June 1983] » [[BCP]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1983'''). ''Recent progress in understanding minimax search''. in Proceedings of ACM National Conference, New York, October 1983
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1984'''). ''Mixing Heuristic and Perfect Evaluations: Nested Minimax''. [[ICGA Journal#7_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1984'''). ''Mating Sequences in the Quiescence Search''. [[ICGA Journal#7_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 3]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1986'''). ''Selective Search without Tears.'' [[ICGA Journal#9_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1986'''). ''Turbo GameWorks: Tools for Turbo Pascal''. (Review) [[ICGA Journal#9_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2]] » [[Turbo Chess]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1989'''). ''Experiments with the Null Move.'' [[Advances in Computer Chess 5]], a revised version is published ('''1990''') under the title ''A Generalized Quiescence Search Algorithm''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 43, No. 1, edited version in ('''1999'''). ''The Nature of MINIMAX Search''. Ph.D. thesis, Chapter 10
* [[David Levy]], [[Don Beal]] (Eds.) ('''1989'''). ''Heuristic Programming in Artificial Intelligence - The First Computer Olympiad''. Ellis Horwood » [[1st Computer Olympiad#Workshop|1st Computer Olympiad]]
==1990 ...==
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1990'''). ''A Generalized Quiescence Search Algorithm''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 43, No. 1
* [[David Levy]], [[Don Beal]] (Eds.) ('''1991'''). ''Heuristic Programming in Artificial Intelligence - The Second Computer Olympiad''. Ellis Horwood » [[2nd Computer Olympiad#Workshop|2nd Computer Olympiad]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1991'''). ''Report on the 11th World Microcomputer Chess Championship''. [[ICGA Journal#14_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2]] » [[WMCCC 1991]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1991'''). ''Report on the 22nd ACM International Computer Chess Championship''. [[ICGA Journal#14_4|ICCA Journal, Vol. 14, No. 4]] » [[ACM 1991]]
* [[John Roycroft]], [[Don Beal]] ('''1991'''). ''To Make Dumb Endgame Databases Speak''. [[Advances in Computer Chess 6]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1992'''). ''The 1992 QMW Uniform-Platform Autoplay Computer-Chess Tournament''. [[ICGA Journal#15-3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3]] » [[UPCCC 1992]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1993'''). ''Report on the QMW 1993 Uniform-Platform Computer-Chess Championship.'' [[ICGA Journal#16_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3]] » [[UPCCC 1993]] <ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess/browse_frm/thread/51267e26536fa912 QMW computer chess] by [[Don Beal]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rec.games.chess]], August 19, 1993</ref>
* [[Don Beal]], [[Martin C. Smith]] ('''1994'''). ''Random Evaluations in Chess''. [[ICGA Journal#17_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1]]
* [[Don Beal]], [[Martin C. Smith]] ('''1994'''). ''Random Evaluations in Chess''. [[Advances in Computer Chess 7]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1994'''). ''The QMW's Uniform-Platform Computer-Chess Tournament''. [[ICGA Journal#17_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1994'''). ''Report on the QMW Uniform-Platform World Championship 1994''. [[ICGA Journal#17_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3]] » [[UPCCC 1994]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1995'''). ''An Integrated-Bounds-and-Values (IBV) Numeric Scale for Minimax Searches.'' [[ICGA Journal#18_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2]] » [[Integrated Bounds and Values]]
* [http://www.ece.ust.hk/%7Eeetsang/ Hin-Kwok Tsang] and [[Don Beal]] ('''1995'''). ''The 8th World Computer-Chess Championship''. [[ICGA Journal#18_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2]] » [[WCCC 1995]]
* [[Don Beal]], [[Martin C. Smith]] ('''1995'''). ''Quantification of Search-Extension Benefits.'' [[ICGA Journal#18_4|ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 4]]
* [[Don Beal]], [[Martin C. Smith]] ('''1996'''). ''Multiple Probes of Transposition Tables''. [[ICGA Journal#19_4|ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4]]
* [[Don Beal]], [[Martin C. Smith]] ('''1997'''). ''Learning Piece Values Using Temporal Differences''. [[ICGA Journal#20_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3]]
* [[Don Beal]], [[Martin C. Smith]] ('''1998'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-48957-6_7 First Results from Using Temporal Difference Learning in Shogi]''. [[CG 1998]]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1999'''). ''The 9th World Computer-Chess Championship: the Search-Engine Features of the Programs''. [[ICGA Journal#22_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3]] » [[WCCC 1999]]
* [[Don Beal]], [[Martin C. Smith]] ('''1999'''). ''Learning Piece-Square Values using Temporal Differences.'' [[ICGA Journal#22_4|ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 4]]
* [[Don Beal]], [[Martin C. Smith]] ('''1999'''). ''[http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1624299 Temporal Coherence and Prediction Decay in TD Learning]''. [[Conferences#IJCAI1999|IJCAI 1999]], [http://ijcai.org/Past%20Proceedings/IJCAI-99-VOL-1/PDF/081.pdf pdf]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''1999'''). ''The Nature of MINIMAX Search''. Ph.D. thesis, IKAT, [[Maastricht University]], [https://project.dke.maastrichtuniversity.nl/games/files/phd/Beal_thesis.pdf pdf]
==2000 ...==
* [[Don Beal]], [[Martin C. Smith]] ('''2001'''). ''Temporal difference learning applied to game playing and the results of application to Shogi''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical_Computer_Science_%28journal%29 Theoretical Computer Science], Vol. 252, Nos. 1-2
* [[Ren Wu]], [[Don Beal]] ('''2001'''). ''Computer Analysis of some Chinese Chess Endgames''. [[Advances in Computer Games 9]]
* [[Ren Wu]], [[Don Beal]] ('''2001'''). ''[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/contents/content24-3.htm#FAST Fast, Memory-efficient Retrograde Algorithms]''.[[ICGA Journal#24_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=200335 Generating egtbs ICGAJ] by [[Tony van Roon-Werten|Tony Werten]], [[CCC]], December 04, 2001, with reference to [http://www.abc.se/~m10051/eg.txt Computing endgames with few men] by [[Urban Koistinen]]</ref> <ref>[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6302&p=29956 Wu / Beal retrograde analisys algorithm] by [[Alvaro Cardoso|Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], March 10, 2007</ref>
* [[Ren Wu]], [[Don Beal]] ('''2001'''). ''Parallel Retrograde Analysis on Different Architectures''. in IEEE 10th Conference in High Performance Distributed Computing, August 2001
* [[Ren Wu]], [[Don Beal]] ('''2001'''). ''Solving Chinese Chess Endgames by Database Construction''. Information Sciences, Vol. 135, Nos. 3-4
* [[Don Beal]] ('''2002'''). ''Learn from your opponent - but what if he/she/it knows less than you?'' in [[Jean Retschitzki]], [[Rosita Haddad-Zubel]] (eds.) ''Step by Step''.
* [[Ren Wu]], [[Don Beal]] ('''2002'''). ''A memory efficient retrograde algorithm and its application to solve Chinese Chess endgames.'' in [[Richard J. Nowakowski]] (ed.) [http://library.msri.org/books/Book42/ More Games of No Chance]
* [[Don Beal]] ('''2006'''). ''[[File:alg1986review.txt|Review of a nullmove-quiescence search mechanism from 1986]]''. (Draft) <ref>courtesy of [[Don Beal]] and [[Carey Bloodworth]], [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58603&start=13 Re: Antique chess programs] by [[Carey Bloodworth|Carey]], [[CCC]], December 16, 2015</ref>
=Forum Posts=
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess/browse_frm/thread/27b2b2c3427e9a33 computer chess tournament] by [[Don Beal]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rec.games.chess]], May 15, 1992
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess/browse_frm/thread/410c1904c91f9138 QMW uniform-platform computer chess tournament] by [[Don Beal]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rec.games.chess]], August 18, 1992 » [[UPCCC 1992]]
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess/browse_frm/thread/51267e26536fa912 QMW computer chess] by [[Don Beal]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rec.games.chess]], August 19, 1993 » [[UPCCC 1993]]
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess/xIvJfi92jMc/BQP231Z0V84J Re: Human VS computer] by [[Don Beal]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rec.games.chess]], July 11, 1994 » [[Search with Random Leaf Values]]
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess/browse_frm/thread/4d44088f41d4ceca World Computer Chess Championship] by [[Don Beal]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rec.games.chess]], March 16, 1995 » [[WCCC 1995]]
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/browse_frm/thread/89dcb0515d906deb ICCA issues] by [[Don Beal]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], January 27, 1997 » [[ICCA]], [[ICGA]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=390268 Re: mate threat extension/null move] by [[Don Beal]], [[CCC]], October 04, 2004 » [[Mate Threat Extensions]], [[Null Move Pruning|Null Move]] and [[Win at Chess|WAC]] booster
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29439 Null move in quiescence search idea from Don Beal, 1986] by [[Eelco de Groot]], [[CCC]], Aug 17, 2009 » [[Null Move Pruning#NMQS|Don Beal's Null Move Quiescence Search]]
=External Links=
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=35 Don Beal's ICGA Tournaments]
=References=
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