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Jon Dart [1] Jon Dart,

an American software developer, software architect, and independent IT consultant [2]. As a chess programmer he is author of the Chess Engine Communication Protocol and UCI compatible chess engine Arasan, available to run under Windows, Linux and Mac OS [3].

1994 …#

• Computer Chess: swap down evaluators vs capture search by Jon Dart, rgc, October 24, 1994 » Swap-off algorithm - SOMA, Quiescence Search
• Arasan progress report by Jon Dart, rgcc, May 23, 1996
• Fail High reductions by Jon Dart, rgcc, October 7, 1996
• Arasan goes online by Jon Dart, rgcc, January 6, 1997
• public aplogoy/warning by James and Amy Long, rgcc, November 19, 1998
• endgame eval question by Jon Dart, CCC, November 25, 1998

2000 …#

• Arasan now under Linux by Jon Dart, CCC, September 02, 2000
• A few notes from Arasan’s games in CCT2 by Jon Dart, CCC, November 05, 2000 » CCT2
• new Arasan test suite by Jon Dart, CCC, December 11, 2000
• handling ICC timeout by Jon Dart, CCC, April 16, 2001 » Internet Chess Club
• Using 2 machines for matches (Linux) by Jon Dart, CCC, June 24, 2001 » XBoard, Linux
• CCT4 notes - Arasan by Jon Dart, CCC, January 20, 2002 » CCT4
• book bust? by Jon Dart, CCC, May 10, 2002
• pawn race position by Jon Dart, CCC, June 05, 2002 » Pawn Race
• endgame position - null move problem by Jon Dart, CCC, February 06, 2003
• interesting evaluation problem by Jon Dart, CCC, December 14, 2003

2005 …#

• UCI protocol question by Jon Dart, CCC, October 04, 2005 » UCI
• Arasan in CCT8 by Jon Dart, CCC, February 26, 2006 » CCT8
• interesting pawn race position by Jon Dart, CCC, December 14, 2008 » Pawn Race

2010 …#

• some UCI protocol issues/questions by Jon Dart, CCC, December 17, 2010 » UCI
• Arasan 13.1 by Jon Dart, CCC, August 23, 2011
• Arasan test suite additions by Jon Dart, CCC, December 20, 2012
• UCI protocol issue by Jon Dart, CCC, July 27, 2013 » Repetitions, UCI
• Null move, razoring and mate threats by Jon Dart, CCC, October 28, 2013 » Razoring, Null Move Pruning

2015 …#

• MMTO for evaluation learning by Jon Dart, CCC, January 25, 2015 » Automated Tuning, Shogi [4]
• Experiments with eval tuning by Jon Dart, CCC, March 10, 2015 » Arasan, Automated Tuning, Texel’s Tuning Method
• Syzygy and draw by repetition by Jon Dart, CCC, July 22, 2016  » Draw, Repetitions, Syzygy Bases
• Parallel search/LazySMP question by Jon Dart, CCC, December 17, 2017 » Lazy SMP
• Arasan 21.0 by Jon Dart, CCC, June 30, 2018

2020 …#

• hash collisions by Jon Dart, CCC, January 28, 2020 » Key Collisions
• repackaging of Fishtest’s SPRT calculation code by Jon Dart, CCC, March 20, 2020 » SPRT
• nnue reading code by Jon Dart, CCC, February 13, 2021 » NNUE

External Links#

• Jon Dart - LinkedIn
• jdart1 (Jon Dart) · GitHub
• Arasan chess
• Arasan Test Suite [5]
• Arasan 8.4 released, short interview with Jon Dart by Frank Quisinsky, March 01, 2005, Arena Chess GUI, Archive 5, 72 ( Wayback Machine)

References#

1. ↑ Jon Dart - LinkedIn
2. ↑ Jon Dart | LinkedIn
3. ↑ Arasan chess
4. ↑ Kunihito Hoki, Tomoyuki Kaneko (2014). Large-Scale Optimization for Evaluation Functions with Minimax Search. JAIR Vol. 49, pdf
5. ↑ Arasan test suite additions by Jon Dart, CCC, December 20, 2012

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