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Stefan Meyer-Kahlen^[1]

Stefan Meyer-Kahlen,
a German computer scientist, professional computer chess programmer, and author ofShredder^[2]. In the early 90s Stefan started chess programming and co-authoredXXXX in cooperation with his fellowMartin Zentner. He began to develop his own program Shredder in early 1995. After winning theWMCCC 1996 in Djakarta, he started his professional career. Along withSOS authorRudolf Huber, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen designed theUCI protocol, released in 2000^[3].

Photos

Theo van der Storm and SMK, celebratingIPCCC 1998^[4]

Stefan Meyer-Kahlen talking with Axel Fritz aboutPocket Fritz, 2001^[5]

Selected Publications

• Ingo Althöfer,Jens Lieberum,Johan de Koning,Stefan Meyer-Kahlen,Thomas Rolle,Jörg Sameith (2003).Five visualizations of the k-best mode.ICGA Journal, Vol. 26, No. 3^[6]

Forum Posts

• Autoplayer for Win32 (again) byStefan Meyer-Kahlen,CCC, September 12, 1998
• ELO performance? byStefan Meyer-Kahlen,CCC, May 22, 1999 »Match Statistics,Pawn Advantage, Win Percentage, and Elo,Playing Strength
• Definition of the Extended Autoplayer 232 Protocol byStefan Meyer-Kahlen,CCC, May 16, 2000 »Auto232
• EPD format byStefan Meyer-Kahlen,CCC, November 07, 2000 »Extended Position Description
• UCI (=universal chess interface) byStefan Meyer-Kahlen,CCC, November 28, 2000 »UCI
• Extension of the UCI protocol byStefan Meyer-Kahlen,CCC, April 15, 2004
• Deep Shredder 13 Windows out byStefan Meyer-Kahlen,CCC, October 30, 2016

External Links

SMK

• Stefan Meyer-Kahlen from Wikipedia
• Stefan Meyer-Kahlen's ICGA Tournaments
• Meet the Authors byEd Schröder
• Who is Who at ChessBase fromChessBase auf Helgoland June 16, 2004
• Workshop Jena 2008: Analysis, Design, and Programming of Games pictorial report byIngo Althöfer

Interviews

• Lokalverbot für Westentaschen-Großmeister - Interview mitEric van Reem, 2001 (German)
• Interview with Stefan Meyer-Kahlen byFrank Quisinsky, 2006
• Shredder 10 now available - Interview with Shredder author Stefan Meyer-Kahlen,ChessBase News, May 26, 2006
• Interview mit Stefan Meyer-Kahlen byMichael Diosi, October 2007 (German)
• Interview mit dem Schach-Programmierer Stefan Meyer-Kahlen fromGlarean Magazin, June 30, 2009 (German)
• Interview with Stefan Meyer-Kahlen byFrank Quisinsky, February 21, 2010 (German)
• #12 Stefan Meyer-Kahlen (ShredderChess) | Let's talk about chess,Podcast byEric van Reem, December 02, 2020^[7]

References

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