Thanks
Contributors
Following people submitted games to CCRL 40/4 database:
Shaun Brewer, Kirill Kryukov, Gabor Szots, Ray Banks, Chuck Wilson, Aser Huerga, Graham Banks, Dom Leste, Denis Mendoza, Martin Thoresen, Tom Logan, Cody Rowland, Chris Taylor, Charles Smith.
Kirill Kryukov and Shaun Brewer automated statistical analysis and designed the web-site,
with lot of useful feedback from other team members.
Shaun Brewer and Kirill Kryukov maintained the game database and published updates.
Authors of chess software we used
We want to thank Martin Blume for creating
Arena - a great free chess interface.
We also want to thank Matthias Gemuh for creating
ChessGUI - another great free chess interface.
We also used commercial interfaces: Chessbase interfaces,
Shredder GUI by Stefan Mayer-Kahlen and
Engine Research Tool by Lokasoft.
Odd Gunnar Malin made very useful adapters
Wb2Uci and
InBetween.
Eugene Nalimov and Andrew Kadatch created
"Nalimov Tablebases".
Daniel Shawul created Scorpio bitbases.
We also thank members of EGTB Online project
for making those endgame tablebases freely available online.
We are grateful to
Harry Schnapp, Sedat Canbaz, Wael Deeb, Christopher Conkie, Mike Scheidl
for creating high quality opening books we used in testing.
Most of all we would like to thank developers of all the chess engines we tested:
Enrique Sanchez Acosta, Richard Allbert, Peter Alloysius, Leen Ammeraal, Volker Annuss, Edsel Apostol, Stan Arts, Miguel Ballicora, Amir Ban, Christian Barreteau, Max Bauer, Ryan Benitez, Albert Bertilsson, Aart Bik, Norman Blais, Uri Blass, Erdi Ata Bleda, Volker Bohm, Ivan Bonkin, Michael Borgstadt, Borko Boskovic, Ross Boyd, Lucas Braesch, Oliver Brausch, Martin Bryant, Dieter Buerssner, Romain Burgot, Shay Bushinsky, Vadim Bykov, Carlos del Cacho, Carmelo Calzerano, Pedro Castro, Fabio Cavicchio, Piotr Cichy, Federico Corigliano, Claudio Della Corte, Remi Coulom, Anthony Cozzie, Stuart Cracraft, Don Cross, David Dahlem, Don Dailey, Tijs van Dam, Alessandro Damiani, Martin Danielsson, Jon Dart, Ben Dean-Kawamura, Vadim Demichev, Antonio Dieguez, Dusan Dobes, Jerry Donald, Patrice Duhamel, Philippe Fabiani, Andrew Fan, Ubaldo Farina, Peter Fendrich, Helmut Fett, Martin Fierz, Guillermo Filia, Sune Fischer, Tim Foden, Chris Formula, Josue Forte, Klaus Friedel, Jean-Christophe Gabillard, Thomas Gaksch, Jose Carlos Martinez Galan, Dr. Onno Garms, Jean-Francois Gazet, Matthias Gemuh, Martin Giepmans, Marco Giusfredi, Fritz Grau, Thorsten Greiner, Gabriel Guillory, Sam Hamilton, Bas Hamstra, Andreas Herrmann, Dan Homan, Dan Honeycutt, Peter Horvath, Rudolf Huber, Shane Hudson, Robert Hyatt, Werner Inmann, Miguel Izquierdo, Balazs Jako, Christophe Jolly, William Mowery Jr., Pradu Kannan, Francois Karr, Jean-Philippe Karr, Tom Kerrigan, Niyaz Khasanov, Tom King, Jan Klima, Marek Kolacz, Chua Kong-Sian, Johan de Koning, Roman Korba, Alexey Korneychuk, Evgeniy Korniloff, Igor Korshunov, Pawel Koziol, Hans-Joachim Kraas, Jonathan Kreuzer, Sylvain Lacombe, Fabien Letouzey, Tom Likens, Gary Linscott, Dominique Longbien, Bruno Lucas, Harald Luessen, Stef Luijten, George Lyapko, Andres Manzanares, Eric Marathee, Sergei Markoff, Steve Maughan, Anton Maydell, Thomas Mayer, Peter McKenzie, Matt McKnight, Vladimir Medvedev, Daniel Mehrmann, Johan Melin, Denis Mendoza, John Merlino, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Anastasios Milikas, Alex Morozov, Frans Morsch, Ferdinand Mosca, Edmund Moshamer, H.G. Muller, Ron Murawski, Aleksandar Naumov, Pallav Nawani, Sergei Nefedov, Pham Hong Nguyen, Jens Baek Nielsen, Eric Oldre, Marco Pagnoncelli, Rahman Paidar, Gian-Carlo Pascutto, Arkadiusz Paterek, Lance Perkins, Maciej Pestka, Roland Pfister, Ilari Pihlajisto, Richard Pijl, Teemu Pudas, David Rabel, Landon W. Rabern, Vasik Rajlich, David Rasmussen, Adrien Regimbald, Gerrit Reubold, Fritz Reul, Luigi Ripamonti, Jean-Francois Romang, Tord Romstad, Toma Roncevic, Peter Rosendahl, Manfred Rudiger, Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz, Ralf Schafer, Frank Scharn, Norman Schmidt, Frank Schneider, Ed Schroder, Gunther Schrufer, Alessandro Scotti, Antonio Senatore, Fermin Serrano, Daniel Shawul, Michael Sherwin, Allard Siemelink, Will Singleton, Kai Skibbe, Marek Strejczek, Steen Suurballe, James Swafford, Antoni Szczepanski, Omid David Tabibi, Franck Tempet, Christophe Theron, Nathan Thom, Eric Triki, Ulrich Turke, Mark Uniacke, Per-Ola Valfridsson, Andres Valverdes, Koundinya Veluri, Joel Veness, Richard Vida, Tom Vijlbrief, Martin Villwock, Zach Wegner, Laurens Winkelhagen, Dan Wulff, Franck Zibi, Georg v. Zimmermann, Stefan Zipproth, Johannes Zwanzger.
Software we used for database management, statistics, game analysis, web-site publishing and communication
We want to thank Remi Coulom for creating a wonderful tool
Bayeselo.
We use it to compute our rating lists, LOS figures and performances.
David J. Barnes created
PGN Extract
which we use to perform opening classification of our game database.
Our statistics and processing is automated using Perl language,
particularly ActivePerl distribution.
We used following great software for file and database management:
- FAR - File manager by Eugene Roshal and FAR Team
- FarColorer - Syntax highlighting plugin by Igor Russkih
- 7-Zip - Archiever by Igor Pavlov
- FileZilla - FTP client by Tim Kosse and FileZilla dev. team
- WinSCP - FTP, SFTP and SCP client by Martin Prikryl
Other incredibly useful free software we use every day: