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Ralf Schäfer [1] Ralf Schäfer,

a German computer scientist and chess programmer. Ralf is author of the chess engine Cheetah, and along with Volker Böhm, author of Spike, which incorporates ideas of Cheetah and Böhm’s IceSpell [2]. Spike won the first Livingston Chess960 Computer World Championship, 2005, in Mainz [3] [4].

Forum Posts#

• Re: Spike News or update? by Ralf Schäfer, CCC, March 31, 2009
• Spike 1.4 is available by Ralf Schäfer, CCC, February 01, 2011

External Links#

• Ralf Schäfer’s ICGA Tournaments
• Spike home
• Spike 0.9 released, Interview with Volker Böhm and Ralf Schäfer by Frank Quisinsky, hosted by Arena Chess GUI 3.0 - Welcome to Arena, March 20, 2005 (German)
• …weil Chess960 vom ersten Zug an spannend ist - Die Chess960 Computer Weltmeister Volker Böhm und Ralf Schäfer im Gespräch. Chess Tigers, August 07, 2006 (German)

References#

1. ↑ Clipped from Volker Böhm und Ralf Schäfer, Sieger der ersten Chess960 Computer WM, Chess Classic - 2. Computer Weltmeisterschaft im Chess960, Chess Tigers, April 05, 2006 (German)
2. ↑ Spike home
3. ↑ Spike - Mainz 2005 Report (German)
4. ↑ Chess Classic - Spike is the first Chess960 Computer World Champion!
5. ↑ Aronian gewinnt FINet-Chess960-Turnier from ChessBase Nachrichten, August 13, 2005 (German)

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