Ard van Bergen

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Ard van Bergen [1] Arie Riemer Dirk van Bergen, (Ard van Bergen, A.R.D. van Bergen)

a Dutch physicist, scientific consultant and director of Novidec Ltd., Cheshire, England [2] [3], as well as chess player active in the Chester Chess Club [4]. He defended his Ph.D. in atomic physics in 1987 at Utrecht University. As former computer chess and games programmer, Ard is author of the chess programs PK80/83 and Shess, and the Draughts program TN83. Along with Stef Keetman, he developed the Draughts engine for Oxford Softworks’ Intelligent Strategy Games 10 [5].

Quotes#

from Ard’s Chesspage [6]:

Also, when I was a student, I started to develop my own chess program which competed many times in the [Dutch National Championship](Dutch_Open_Computer_Chess_Championship "Dutch Open Computer Chess Championship") organised by the [CSVN](CSVN "CSVN"). The best result my program obtained was a shared second place in 1983. It also competed twice ([Cologne 1986](WCCC_1986 "WCCC 1986") and [Edmonton 1989](WCCC_1989 "WCCC 1989")) in the World Championship organised by the [ICCA](ICCA "ICCA") (now [ICGA](ICGA "ICGA")). 

Selected Publications#

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1985 …#

• Sicco Kooi, Ard van Bergen (1985). The 5th World Microcomputer-Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3 » WMCCC 1985
• Ard van Bergen (1985). An Ulti-Mate Look at the KPK Data Base. ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 4
• Ard van Bergen, Theo van der Storm (1986). The KPK Endgame: a Unit Correction. ICCA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1
• Ard van Bergen (1987). Effects of intense, near-resonant laser excitation on the Na-D fluorescence spectrum in Ar gas. Ph.D. thesis, Utrecht University
• Ard van Bergen (1989). The 1st Computer Olympiad, August 9-15, 1989. ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 3 » 1st Computer Olympiad

1990 …#

• A.G. Schlijper, Ard van Bergen, B. Smit (1990). Local-states method for the calculation of free energies in Monte Carlo simulations of lattice models. Physical Review A, Vol. 41
• G.J.A. Ypma, Peter Cifra, Erik Nies, Ard van Bergen (1996). Interfacial Behavior of Compressible Polymer Blends. Monte Carlo Simulation and the Lattice Fluid Theory. Macromolecules, Vol. 29

External Links#

• Ard’s homepage
• Ard’s chesspage
• Ard van Bergen - LinkedIn
• Ard van Bergen’s ICGA Tournaments
• Ard van Bergen Video Game Credits and Biography - MobyGames

References#

1. ↑ Ard’s homepage
2. ↑ Novidec - Home
3. ↑ NOVIDEC LTD - Officers (free information from Companies House)
4. ↑ History – Chester Chess Club 1919-20xx
5. ↑ Intelligent Strategy Games 10 (1993) DOS credits - MobyGames
6. ↑ Ard’s Chesspage
7. ↑ ICGA Reference Database
8. ↑ Publications by Ard van Bergen

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