Gary Calnek

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Gary Calnek,

a Canadian computer scientist and early computer chess programmer when he was undergraduate student at University of Waterloo in the mid 70s. Along with Ron Hansen, Russell Crook, and Jim Parry, he was co-author of the successful mainframe programs Ribbit [1] and its successor Treefrog [2].

External Links#

• Gary Calnek’s ICGA Tournaments

References#

1. ↑ Ribbit’s ICGA Tournaments
2. ↑ Monty Newborn (1977). Summary of the ACM Sixth U.S. Computer Chess Championship, from The Best of Creative Computing Volume 2, edited by David Ahl, hosted by AtariArchives.org » ACM 1975

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