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[ Thinker’s Mind–body problem [1] Thinker,

a chess engine from the Chess Thinker collection of programs that include a Windows UI (Thinkerboard), a Pocket PC ICS client (Pocket PC Thinkerboard) and a Book engine (BookThinker) [2] [3]. Thinker was initially developed by Lance Perkins as private engine with an own GUI, who submitted the Chess Engine Communication Protocol compliant Thinker to Leo Dijksman’s tournament [4]. Since 2004, Thinker regularly participated at CCT Tournaments, since 2008 at ACCA Americas’ Computer Chess Championship. In 2009, the development of Thinker 5.x was assumed by Kerwin Medina [5] [6], while Lance Perkins was involved in development of the Chess Thinker collection, to port Thinker for Pocket PC and the Nintendo DS. In 2010, already under the aegis and lonesome authorship of Kerwin Medina, Thinker played the WCSC 2010 and at the same time the WCCC 2010 [7], where it became third, and was declared joint champion along with Rondo after the disqualification of Rybka by the ICGA in June 2011. Further, Thinker won the ACCA 2010 and the ACCA 2011. Thinker utilize bitboards and is written in C++. Its class design disallows to output any infos while thinking during game play [8].

See also#

• Rodin

Forum Posts#

2008 …#

• ThinkerTalk at ICC and FICS by Lance Perkins, CCC, March 01, 2008
• Pocket PC Thinkerboard update by Lance Perkins, CCC, April 04, 2008
• Thinker-ing mobile and parallel by Lance Perkins, CCC, August 08, 2008
• A different ‘Talk’ this time by Lance Perkins, CCC, September 02, 2008
• New version of Thinker by Kerwin Medina, Winboard Forum, November 03, 2008
• Thinking in parallel by Kerwin Medina, Winboard Forum, March 06, 2009
• Thinker output by Matthias Gemuh, CCC, March 22, 2009

2010 …#

• Thinker is blowing my mind by Dann Corbit, CCC, March 25, 2011
• Complaints against the Chess programs LOOP and THINKER by Harvey Williamson, Hiarcs Forum, May 12, 2014
• Complaints against the Chess programs LOOP and THINKER by Harvey Williamson, CCC, May 14, 2014

External Links#

Chess Engine#

• Thinker’s ICGA Tournaments
• Chess Thinker - Home (archived GeoCities site)
• Engine Download List from Ron Murawski’s Computer-Chess Wiki
• Arena Chess GUI 3.0 - Archive 8 - Message 118 - Interview with the programmer of Thinker, Lance Perkins (Canada) by Frank Quisinsky, April 27, 2005
• Allegations against two more Chess Engines – The LOOP Program by David Levy, ICGA President, May 22, 2012 » Loop
• Complaints against the Chess programs LOOP and THINKER by David Levy, ICGA President, May 9, 2014

Misc#

• The Thinker from Wikipedia
• The Gates of Hell from Wikipedia
• Category:Le Penseur - Wikimedia Commons

References#

1. ↑ The body contains the soul, which thinks the body containing the soul, etc. etc., Image by Anders Jørgensen based on a Detail Photo by Stefan Kühn of The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin, Musée d’Orsay, Psykofysisk problem from Wikipedia.da (Danish), Category:Le Penseur - Wikimedia Commons
2. ↑ Thinker’s ICGA Tournaments
3. ↑ Chess Thinker - What’s New (archived GeoCities site)
4. ↑ Arena Chess GUI 3.0 - Archive 8 - Message 118 - Interview with the programmer of Thinker, Lance Perkins (Canada) by Frank Quisinsky, April 27, 2005
5. ↑ Re: Thinker output by Lance Perkins, CCC, March 23, 2009
6. ↑ Re: Best tactical engine? by Lance Perkins, CCC, April 25, 2009
7. ↑ Thinker’s ICGA Tournaments
8. ↑ Re: Thinker output by Lance Perkins, CCC, March 22, 2009
9. ↑ Complaints against the Chess programs LOOP and THINKER by David Levy, ICGA President, May 9, 2014

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