Peter Gillgasch

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Peter Gillgasch [1] Peter W. Gillgasch,

a German computer scientist, software developer and former computer chess programmer. In 1992, while undergraduate at University of Karlsruhe he developed the Pascal predecessor of a computer chess program which later evolved to DarkThought after he joined forces with Ernst A. Heinz in 1993 and later in 1994 with Markus Gille. Gillgasch created rotated bitboards with a different diagonal mapping than Robert Hyatt, later described by Heinz [2] . He left the DarkThought team in April 1996 [3] [4] .

1995 …#

• Re: World Championship of Computers by Peter Gillgasch, rgcc, July 04, 1995 » WCCC 1995
• Re: Quiescence search problems by Peter Gillgasch, rgcc, August 2, 1995
• Re: Chess programming using bitboards by Peter Gillgasch, rgcc, August 18, 1995
• Drawn games (Was Re: Transposition table) by Peter Gillgasch, rgcc, February 06, 1996
• bit parallelism (WAS: Programming Language Complexity) by Peter Gillgasch, Computer Programming Language Forum - C Language, September 18, 1997

2000 …#

• Re: DB NPS (anyone know the position used)? by Peter W. Gillgasch, CCC, January 25, 2000 » Deep Blue, Nodes per Second

External Links#

• Peter Gillgasch’s ICGA Tournaments
• Peter Gillgasch - Softwareentwickler, XING

References#

1. ↑ Peter Gillgasch at WCCC 1995. Image clipped from ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 178, Photo courtesy by Jaap van den Herik
2. ↑ Rotated Bitboards by Ernst A. Heinz
3. ↑ DarkThought - Acknowledgements
4. ↑ Re: About Deep Blue by Vincent Diepeveen, CCC, December 23, 2005

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