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Michael B [1] Michael (Mike) Byrne,

an American now retired certified public accountant and finance manager, in 1983 graduated from University of Pennsylvania [2], and further chess player and computer chess aficionado. He wrote computer chess articles for Computer Chess Reports in the 90s, and served as moderator in CCC. He is member of the Crafty team around Robert Hyatt. More recently, he plays around with a derivative of Senpai 1.0 by Fabien Letouzey, dubbed Kōhai [3] [4], the Gull 3 fork dubbed Hawkeye [5], and a Stockfish fork with Cerebellum book, dubbed McBrain [6] aka McCain, Burnzie [7] and Honey.

Forum Posts#

1997 …#

• Steve Edward’s Endgame Tablebase generator is now available for WIN95 by Mike Byrne, CCC, November 01, 1997 » Edwards’ Tablebases

2000 …#

• WAC 230 ..solved by by Mike Byrne, CCC, July 07, 2002 [8] » Win at Chess
• qBASIC Chess program - from 1984 by Dieter Steinwender by Mike Byrne, CCC, February 23, 2003 » Minimax by Dieter Steinwender
• Crafty, Winboard, DGT and Move Annoucement by Mike Byrne, CCC, April 24, 2004
• Deep Blue vs Kasparov , Game 6 , 1996 - Annotated with test position by Mike Byrne, CCC, May 30, 2004 » Kasparov versus Deep Blue 1996
• Historical Chessmaster ? by Mike Byrne, CCC, April 23, 2005 » Chessmaster

2010 …#

• Kohai 1.0 Released - a Senpai Derivative by Michael B, CCC, June 06, 2016
• Gull 3 x64 by Michael B, CCC, July 01, 2016 » Gull 3
• HAwkeye 1.03 Released by Michael B, CCC, July 16, 2016 » Hawkeye
• Crafty 25.1 Release by Michael B, CCC, October 04, 2016 » Crafty
• Crafty v25.2 Release by Michael B, CCC, October 29, 2016
• Stockfish 8 SE (Special Edition) by Michael B, CCC, November 04, 2016 » Stockfish
• Stockfish 8 SSE (Special Edition) by Michael B, CCC, November 07, 2016

2017

• McBrain 2017 by Michael B, CCC, January 06, 2017
• Stockfish/McBrain 2.5 Release by Michael B, CCC, June 17, 2017
• Why McBrain? by Michael B, CCC, September 02, 2017
• Cfish update -> macOS exe’s for download by Michael B, CCC, November 13, 2017 » CFish
• asmfishX - macOS by Michael B, CCC, November 23, 2017 » AsmFish

2018

• ThrowBack Tuesday - Nolot 11 by Michael B, CCC, January 24, 2018
• A blast from the past… by Michael B, CCC, March 27, 2018
• what may be two firsts… by Michael B, CCC, June 13, 2018 » DGT Pi, Leela Chess Zero
• McBrain v9.9 / McCain v2 Release by Michael B, CCC, September 04, 2018
• McCain v10 Release by Michael B, CCC, October 14, 2018
• CT800 for the macOS by Michael B, CCC, November 01, 2018 » CT800
• 7 Man Syzygy and SSD by Michael B, CCC, December 18, 2018 » Syzygy Bases

2019

• Honey-XPro Release by Michael B, CCC, May 26, 2019
• McCain X4 Release Final by Michael B, CCC, June 21, 2019
• Strictly for Chess960 Enthusiasts … by Michael B, CCC, June 25, 2019
• Linux flavors - opinions by Michael B, CCC, June 28, 2019
• a brief update - yet another name change by Michael B, CCC, July 07, 2019
• Chess960 Generator and Lookup Tool by Michael B, CCC, July 25, 2019 » Chess960

2020 …#

• Crafty 25.6 by MikeB, CCC, February 01, 2020 » Crafty
• Honey XI by MikeB, CCC, February 10, 2020
• When I’m 64 …. by MikeB, CCC, March 28, 2020
• Honey XIr1 source released by MikeB, CCC, April 01, 2020
• An Old Engine by MikeB, CCC, April 11, 2020 » Houdini
• Honey XI-r2 RELEASE by MikeB, CCC, June 13, 2020
• this will be the merge of a lifetime : SF 80 Elo+ by MikeB, CCC, August 04, 2020 » Stockfish NNUE
• Honey-12 R1 by MikeB, CCC, October 03, 2020
• Maiden Release - Droidfish with Honey engines by MikeB, CCC, October 14, 2020
• Apple New Mac Mini by MikeB, CCC, November 17, 2020

2021

• Honey 13 by MikeB, CCC, February 20, 2021
• My first NNUE nn-f0c1c3cbf2f1.nnue by MikeB, CCC, February 27, 2021 » NNUE
• A random walk down NNUE street … by MikeB, CCC, March 06, 2021
• Perft 7 -> 1.6 trillion moves by MikeB, CCC, April 12, 2021 » Perft

External Links#

• MichaelB7 · GitHub
• GitHub - MichaelB7/Stockfish at burnzie
• Byrne, Michael FIDE Chess Profile

References#

1. ↑ MichaelB7 · GitHub
2. ↑ Michael Byrne (1996). M-Chess Pro 5.0 Book Learning Feature. Computer Chess Reports, Vol. 5, Nos. 3+4, pp. 85-86 - About the Author p. 86
3. ↑ Kohai 1.0 Released - a Senpai Derivative by Michael B, CCC, June 06, 2016
4. ↑ GitHub - MichaelB7/Kohai-Chess: UCI Chess Engine, a derivative of Senpai 1.0
5. ↑ Hawkeye 1.01 Released by Michael B, CCC, July 07, 2016
6. ↑ McBrain 2017 by Michael B, CCC, January 06, 2017
7. ↑ a brief update - yet another name change by Michael B, CCC, July 07, 2019
8. ↑ Hans Kmoch vs Aron Nimzowitsch (1927) from chessgames.com

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