Kai Himstedt

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Kai Himstedt [1] Kai Himstedt,

a German computer scientist and Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg on parallel game-tree search and Grid computing [2] [3]. Along with Ulf Lorenz, he is principle author of GridChess and Cluster Toga, cluster chess programs based on the open source chess programs Fruit by Fabien Letouzey, and the Fruit derivate Toga. GridChess is the doctorate of Kai Himstedt and a cooperation between the Paderborn University and the University of Hamburg. GridChess played the WCCC 2007, Cluster Toga the WCCC 2008 [4]. His further cluster chess projects GridProtector and GridGinkgo, playing the PT 49 in October 2015, and the WCCC 2016, incorporate Raimund Heid’s Protector, and Frank Schneider’s Ginkgo respectively.

Selected Publications

Kai Himstedt (1993). Verfahren zur Vermeidung redundanter Übersetzungen in modularen Softwaresystemen. Diplomarbeit im Fach Informatik, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg. (German)
Kai Himstedt (2005). An Optimistic Pondering Approach for Asynchronous Distributed Games. ICGA Journal, Vol. 28, No. 2
Kai Himstedt, Ulf Lorenz, Dietmar P. F. Möller (2008). A Twofold Distributed Game-Tree Search Approach Using Interconnected Clusters. Euro-Par 2008: 587-598
Kai Himstedt (2012). Optimistische verteilte Spielbaumsuche am Beispiel des Computerschachs. Dissertation (German) [9]
Kai Himstedt (2012). GridChess: Combining Optimistic Pondering with the Young Brothers Wait Concept. ICGA Journal, Vol. 35, No. 2