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Tim Mann [1] Timothy (Tim) Mann,

an American computer scientist and programmer from Palo Alto, California. Tim Mann is the creator of XBoard and its Windows pendant WinBoard [2] and its Chess Engine Communication Protocol. In 2002, along with Robert Hyatt, Tim Mann published the ICGA Journal paper on a lock-less transposition table implementation for parallel search [3].

Eval tuning in Deep Thought#

Eval Tuning in Deep Thought, quote from Tim Mann’s Chess Pages [5]:

[Andreas Nowatzyk](Andreas_Nowatzyk "Andreas Nowatzyk") was one of the contributors to the [Deep Thought](Deep_Thought "Deep Thought") project while he was in grad school. A few years ago when he and I were both working for Compaq's research labs in Palo Alto, Andreas sent me a copy of Deep Thought's [evaluation function tuning program](Automated_Tuning "Automated Tuning") and asked me to put it on the Web for him, since he no longer has an interest in computer chess. 

Selected Publications#

• Robert Hyatt, Tim Mann (2002). A lock-less transposition table implementation for parallel search chess engines. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1

Forum Posts#

• Re: Accessing remote computers with WinBoard by Tim Mann, gnu.chess, November 7, 1993
• XBoard and WinBoard 3.4, patchlevel 1 by Tim Mann, rec.games.board, December 13 1995
• XBoard version 3.5 by Tim Mann, rgc, January 03, 1997
• Re: Using Timeseal with Xboard by Tim Mann, rgc, February 12, 1997
• XBoard and WinBoard, version 3.6.0 by Tim Mann, rgc, May 09, 1997
• xboard/WinBoard 4.0.0 available by Tim Mann, rgc, June 21, 1998
• Re: “Using de Bruijn Sequences to Index a 1 in a Computer Word” by Tim Mann, CCC, February 13, 2002 » Keith H. Randall, De Bruijn Sequence

External Links#

• Tim Mann’s Home Page
• Tim Mann’s Chess Pages
• XBoard - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
• Chess Engine Communication Protocol by Tim Mann & H.G. Muller
• Tim Mann’s TRS-80 Pages » TRS-80
• Arena, Interviews mit Prof. Dr. Robert Hyatt, Tim Mann und Martin Blume by Frank Quisinsky for ChessBits, No. 18, May 2002 ( Wayback Machine) » Protocols, Robert Hyatt, Martin Blume [6]

References#

1. ↑ Tim Mann’s Home Page
2. ↑ rec.games.chess.computer GNU Chess and XBoard: Frequently Asked Questions
3. ↑ Robert Hyatt, Tim Mann (2002). A lock-less transposition table implementation for parallel search chess engines. ICCA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1
4. ↑ XBoard Project History
5. ↑ Deep Thought from Tim Mann’s Chess Pages
6. ↑ 3 interviews about engine protocols with T. Mann, R. Hyatt and M. Blume by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, August 15, 2002

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