Tom Kerrigan

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Tom Kerrigan, creator of tChess [1] Thomas C. (Tom) Kerrigan,

an American software developer and computer chess programmer, who already got hooked on computer chess as a 13-year-old growing up in Fort Collins, Colorado, playing the Chessmaster on a friend’s PC [2]. Inspired by the 1978 articles by Peter W. Frey and Larry Atkin on Chess 0.5 in BYTE magazine [3], he started the development his chess program Stobor in 1993, and further wrote the didactic open source chess program TSCP [4]. While still focusing on Stobor and its parallel search, Tom Kerrigan’s recent project is tChess, a chess program for the iPhone and iPod touch [5]

1997 …#

• Going commercial, maybe by Tom C. Kerrigan, rgcc, March 04, 1997
• piece list possibilities by Tom Kerrigan, CCC, July 07, 1998 » Piece-Lists
• is the “dead bit” a good idea? by Tom Kerrigan, CCC, July 20, 1998 » Piece-Lists
• New version of TSCP! by Tom Kerrigan, CCC, August 02, 1998
• TSCP derivatives? by Tom Kerrigan, CCC, August 06, 1998

2000 …#

• Chip design project & another request for Belle/DT/DB info by Tom Kerrigan, CCC, January 27, 2000 » FPGA
• tip for “simulating” an MP computer & performance of ABDADA by Tom Kerrigan, CCC, May 28, 2000 » ABDADA
• New version of TSCP (1.8)–opening book and hash keys by Tom Kerrigan, CCC, January 30, 2003
• IA-64 vs OOOE (attn Taylor, Hyatt) by Tom Kerrigan, CCC, February 11, 2003  » Itanium, x86-64

2015 …#

• Possible improvement to ABDADA – checking for cutoffs by Tom Kerrigan, CCC, July 10, 2015 » ABDADA
• Actual speedups from YBWC and ABDADA on 8+ core machines? by Tom Kerrigan, CCC, July 10, 2015 » ABDADA, Young Brothers Wait Concept
• Good parallel speedup with ABDADA and cutoff checks by Tom Kerrigan, CCC, February 03, 2017
• “How To” guide to parallel-izing an engine by Tom Kerrigan, CCC, August 27, 2017

External Links#

• Tom Kerrigan’s Home Page

Multiplayer Elo

• Tom Kerrigan’s ICGA Tournaments

References#

1. ↑ iPhone apps ring income for former Microsoftie Kerrigan, Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle), January 9, 2009
2. ↑ iPhone apps ring income for former Microsoftie Kerrigan, Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle), January 9, 2009
3. ↑ Peter W. Frey, Larry Atkin (1978). Creating a Chess Player. An Essay on Human and Computer Chess Skill, BYTE, Vol. 3, No. 10
4. ↑ TSCP - Tom Kerrigan’s Home Page
5. ↑ tChess, Chess for the iPhone and iPod touch!

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