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Frédéric Louguet, Massy 2004 [1] Frédéric Louguet,

a French computer chess programmer, journalist and writer, in 2006 co-founder and now CTO of Ranch Computing, a Render farm located in Paris with huge GPU resources [2] [3]. Frédéric Louguet is author of the chess programs Chess Wizard, three time winner of the French Computer Chess Championships, and the experimental program Raptor [4]. Frédéric Louguet was editor of the French computer chess magazine La Puce Echiquéenne, which appeared in 17 issues from 1992 until 1997 [5], author of LCT II, the Louguet Chess Test II [6] and author of books about various computer related issues.

Photos#

Franck Zibi, Frédéric Louguet, Pascal Tang, Bruno Lucas, FCCC 2002 [7]

Pascal Tang, Frédéric Louguet, Bruno Lucas, FCCC 2003 [8]

Selected Publications#

• Frédéric Louguet (ed.) (1992,1997). La Puce Echiquéenne. No. 1-17
• Frédéric Louguet (1993). Echecs et Mips. DunodTech [9]
• Frédéric Louguet (2002). The 9th French Computer-Chess Championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4 » FCCC 2002

Forum Posts#

• Fritz and Chess Wizard vs Deep Blue Junior by Frédéric Louguet, CCC, May 17, 1999
• Chess Wizard on ICC by Frédéric Louguet, CCC, August 11, 2002
• Chess Wizard, some history and techniques by Frédéric Louguet, October 08, 2002
• About compiler optimizations by Frédéric Louguet, CCC, December 19, 2002
• Massy, a correction : Raptor is NOT Chess Wizard by Frédéric Louguet, CCC, June 16, 2003
• Multi-ProbCut and Crafty : does it work ? by Frédéric Louguet, CCC, June 28, 2003 » Multi–ProbCut, Crafty

External Links#

• Ranch Computing has doubled its GPU calculation power

References#

1. ↑ Frédéric Louguet winner of Massy 2004, Image by Sylvain Renard from no longer available Massy 2004 - Tournoi de programmes d’Echecs from LUDOCHESS - Les jeux d’Echecs 100% pur Java by Stéphane Nguyen
2. ↑ Ranch Computing has doubled its GPU calculation power
3. ↑ Great quality/price ratio render farm - Ranch Computing
4. ↑ Massy, a correction : Raptor is NOT Chess Wizard by Frédéric Louguet, CCC, June 16, 2003
5. ↑ La Puce Echiquéenne from blitzchess.fr
6. ↑ Présentation LCT II from blitzchess.fr
7. ↑ Massy, France - 5 & 6 Oct 2002 - 9ème Championnat Français de Programmes d’Echecs (no longer available)
8. ↑ Massy, France - 4 & 5 Oct 2003 - 10ème Championnat Français de Programmes d’Echecs (no longer available)
9. ↑ Echecs et Mips image from blitzchess.fr

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