Thanks

Hosting Assistance

We would like to thank Anton Mihailov at Chessdom for providing us with an excellent web-hosting solution via Superhosting.bg

Contributors

Following people submitted games to CCRL 40/15 database: Graham Banks, Tirsa Poppins, Charles Smith, Ray Banks, Shaun Brewer, Aser Huerga, Nathan Russell, Volodymyr Shcherbyna, Kirill Kryukov, Sarah Bird, George Speight, Gabor Szots, Martin Thoresen, Thomas Logan, Sergio Martinez, Chris Taylor, Andreas Schwartmann, Chuck Wilson, Brent Magnusson, Adam Hair, Luis Smith, Joshua Shriver, Basti Dangca, Greg Strong, Wassim Saeed.

Kirill Kryukov and Shaun Brewer automated statistical analysis and designed the web-site, with lot of useful feedback from other team members.

Shaun Brewer, Ray Banks and Kirill Kryukov maintained the game database and published updates.

Authors of chess software we used

Thanks to Tim Mann and Harm-Geet Muller for the WinBoard free GUI. Thanks to Martin Blume for the Arena free GUI. Thanks to Matthias Gemuh for the ChessGUI free GUI. Thanks to Nguyen Hong Pham for Banksia GUI free GUI. Thanks to all the authors of CuteChess for CuteChess GUI. We also used commercial interfaces: Chessbase interfaces, Shredder GUI by Stefan Meyer-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. Miguel Ballicora created Gaviota tablebases. Ronald de Man created Syzygy tablebases. We also thank members of EGTB Online project for making those endgame tablebases freely available online.

We are grateful to several people including but not limited to: Harry Schnapp, Sedat Canbaz, Wael Deeb, Christopher Conkie, Arturo Ochoa, Jeroen Noomen, Stefan Pohl, Mike Scheidl, Kevin Frayn, Stefan Zipproth, Ed Schroder, Adam Hair, Albert Silver, Graham Banks, Gabor Szots, Carlos Pesce, Dann Corbit, Chris Whittington, Tirsa Poppins, Jon Dart, Olivier Deville 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: Mikko Aarnos, Niels Abildskov, Enrique Sanchez Acosta, Mike Adams, Rafid Ahsan, Richard Allbert, Max Allendorf, Peter Alloysius, Rasmus Althoff, Leen Ammeraal, Jeffrey An, Michael An, Volker Annus, Volker Annuss, Conor Anstey, Benny Antonsson, Daniel Anulliero, Edsel Apostol, Gonzallo Arro, Stan Arts, Lars Aurud, Ivan Bacigal, Miguel Ballicora, Amir Ban, Christian Barreteau, Marcin Henryk Bartkowiak, Steffen Basting, Shaun Beautement, Aaron Becker, Alvaro Begue, Marco Belli, Szymon Belz, Abel Belzunces, Ryan Benitez, Casper W. Berg, John Bergbom, Michel Van den Bergh, Johnny Bigert, Aart Bik, Norman Blais, Uri Blass, Fonzy Bluemers, E Boatwright, Cosmo Bobak, Volker Bohm, Chris Bolt, Terry Bolt, Ivan Bonkin, Michael Borgstadt, Bert van den Bosch, Borko Boskovic, Jean Bouchet, Xavier Bouchet, Christopher Bowron, Ross Boyd, Lucas Braesch, Oliver Brausch, Sander Maassen vd Brink, Jan Brouwer, Alex Brunetti, Martin Bryant, Gabor Buella, Dieter Buerssner, Stefan de Buhr, Romain Burgot, Shay Bushinsky, Vadim Bykov, Goh CJ, Eduardo Caceres, Carlos del Cacho, Raoni Campos, Giuseppe Cannella, Mark Carlson, Max Carlson, Pedro Castro, Fabio Cavicchio, Can Cetin, Ma Chao, Manik Charan, Philippe Chevalier, Shawn Chidester, William Ching, Vadim Chizhov, Piotr Cichy, Philipp Classen, Vivien Clauzon, Rui Coelho, Federico Corigliano, Claudio Della Corte, Marco Costalba, Anthony Cozzie, Stuart Cracraft, Jason Creighton, Don Cross, Viktor Csomor, Pawel Czerminski, Piotr Dachtera, David Dahlem, Don Dailey, Christian Daley, Martin Danielsson, Jon Dart, Christian Dean, Richard Delorme, Vadim Demichev, Daniel Diaz, Manuel Diaz, Antonio Dieguez, Dusan Dobes, Mike Dokken, Chrilly Donninger, Alejandro Dubrovsky, Patrice Duhamel, Michael Dvorkin, Finn Eggers, Dogac Eldenk, Sean Empey, Philippe Fabiani, Andrew Fan, Ubaldo Farina, Ernesto Torres Feliciano, Peter Fendrich, Jorge Fernandez, Helmut Fett, Martin Fierz, Guillermo Filia, Sune Fischer, Tim Foden, Chris Formula, Josue Forte, Andrei Fortuna, Dr Colin Frayn, Klaus Friedel, Ronald Friederich, Anders Fuglseth, Giuseppe Gadola, Philippe Gailhac, Thomas Gaksch, Jose Carlos Martinez Galan, Marcin Gardyjan, Dr. Onno Garms, Scott Gasch, Oscar Gavira, Matthias Gemuh, Mincho Georgiev, George Georgopoulos, Lukas Geyer, Salvatore Giannotti, Levi Gibson, Martin Giepmans, Jonathan Gilchrist, Matthew Gingell, Marco Giusfredi, Evert Glebbeek, Fabio Gobbato, Romain Goussault, Andrew Grant, Fritz Grau, Thorsten Greiner, Conor Griffin, Darragh Griffin, Steve Griffin, Andrea Griffini, Neels Groenewald, Denis Gruzdev, Christian Guenther, Alex Guerrero, Gabriel Guillory, Jacob Hales, Arnaud Halle, Bas Hamstra, Zixiao Han, Gunnar Harms, Roman Hartmann, Patrick Heck, Tony Hecker, Navid Hedjazian, Raimund Heid, Toni Helminen, Luca Hemmerich, Andreas Herrmann, Folkert van Heusden, Andrew Hockman, Michael Hoffmann, Dan Homan, Martin Honert, Dan Honeycutt, Jay Honnold, Peter Horvath, Robert Houdart, Morgan Houppin, Yinuo Huang, Rudolf Huber, Marc-Philippe Huget, Nguyen Viet Huy, Robert Hyatt, Tom Hyer, Alessandro Iavicoli, Nicu Ionita, Hironori Ishibashi, Miguel Izquierdo, Thomas Jahn, Adam Jedrych, Colin Jenkins, Harald Johnsen, Christophe Jolly, Ben-Hur Carlos Langoni Junior, Kim Kahre, Tom Kalmijn, Pradu Kannan, Dietrich Kappe, Francois Karr, Jean-Philippe Karr, Dominik Kaser, Seth Kasmann, Larry Kaufman, Mohammad Kayali, Daniel Ke, Alexander Kernozhitsky, Tom Kerrigan, Marcel van Kervinck, Niyaz Khasanov, Joona Kiiski, Dave King, Tom King, Terje Kirstihagen, Dave Kittinger, Jan Klima, Janne Kokkala, Marek Kolacz, Thomas Kolarik, Chua Kong-Sian, Johan de Koning, Frank Kopp, Roman Korba, Alexey Korneychuk, Evgeniy Korniloff, Igor Korshunov, George Koskeridis, Tim Kosse, Eugene Kotlov, Pawel Koziol, Jonathan Kreuzer, Kyle Krowpman, Adam Kulju, Michal Kurek, Nikita Kurgin, Tamas Kuzmics, Sylvain Lacombe, Matthew Lai, Jean-Yves Lallemand, Matthew Lang, Matthias Lang, Andrea Lanza, Rak Laptudirm, Michael Lawatsch, Mark Lefler, Philipp Lenk, Patrick Leonhardt, Fabien Letouzey, Aaron Li, Zong Zheng Li, Alexander Liang, Tom Likens, Jose Andres Morales Linares, Jacob Bors Lind, Anton Lindenmair, Gary Linscott, Alexander Litov, Alex Lobanov, Stuart Nevans Locke, Gabriele Lombardo, Dominique Longbien, Stephen Lovell, Robert Lubczynski, Bruno Lucas, Maximilian Lupke, Matthias Luscher, George Lyapko, Kylie MacFarquharson, Louis James Mackenzie-Smith, Erik Madsen, Ivan Maklyakov, Odd Gunnar Malin, Stefano Malloggi, Christophe J. Mandin, Edoardo Manino, Andres Manzanares, Andrea Manzo, Eric Marathee, Julien Marcel, Filippo Marfe, Sergei Markoff, Mariusz Marszalkowski, Gediminas Masaitis, Youri Matiounine, Srdja Matovic, Andreas Matthies, Steve Maughan, Mike Maxim, Anton Maydell, Thomas Mayer, Jonas Mayr, Kris McAulay, Thomas McBurney, Jonathan McDermid, Liam McGuire, Matt McKnight, Connor McMonigle, Vladimir Medvedev, Daniel Mehrmann, Johan Melin, Maxim Melnikov, Marco Meloni, Thomas Mergener, John Merlino, Luca Metehau, Sergey Meus, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Tomasz Michniewski, Gabor Mihaly, Helge Milde, Anastasios Milikas, Maurizio Monge, Gabriel Montes, Chris Moreton, Manlio Morini, Alex Morozov, Dmitry Morozov, Ferdinand Mosca, Edmund Moshamer, Alexandru Mosoi, William Mota, H.G. Muller, Mathias Muller, Roberto Munter, Roberto Munto, Ron Murawski, Aleksandar Naumov, Pallav Nawani, Sergei Nefedov, Jan Nemec, Rian Neogi, Jens Baek Nielsen, Jesper Nielsen, Walter van Niftrik, Torbjorn Nilsson, Phokham Nonava, Bernd Nuernberger, Mikko Nummelin, Eric Oldre, Lourenco Oliveira, Vincent Ollivier, Pawel Osikowski, Jury Osipov, Peter Osterlund, Felipe Otaviano, Orhan Ozturk, Mathieu Page, Marco Pagnoncelli, Rahman Paidar, Salvador Pallares, Marco Pampaloni, Aryan Parekh, Gian-Carlo Pascutto, Arkadiusz Paterek, Alex Pawelko, Kieren Pearson, JoAnn D. Peeler, Krisztian Peocz, Cesar Rodolfo Contreras Perez, Lance Perkins, Maciej Pestka, Kurt Peters, Jonatan Pettersson, Thomas Petzke, Jochen Peussner, Archishmaan Peyyet, Roland Pfister, Gunther Piez, Ilari Pihlajisto, Richard Pijl, Janez Podobnik, Mateusz Luksik, Poland, Robert Pope, Giacomo Porpiglia, Shaun Press, Marcus Prewarski, Kamil Przybyla, Teemu Pudas, Daniel Jose Queralto, David Rabel, Vasik Rajlich, David Rasmussen, Dan Ravensloft, Adrien Regimbald, Tom Reinitz, Gerrit Reubold, Fritz Reul, Stuart Riffle, Luigi Ripamonti, Charles Roberson, Nicolas Robert, Erik Robertsson, Federico Rojo, Jean-Francois Romang, Tord Romstad, Toma Roncevic, Jonathan Rosenthal, Benjamin Rosseaux, Sidhant Roymoulik, Alberto Alonso Ruibal, Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz, Ilya Rukavishnikov, Petur Runolfsson, Rhys Rustad-Elliott, Doruk SEKERCIOGLU, David Safranek, Maurizio Sambati, Bendik Samseth, Lana Samson, Juan Benitez Sanchez, Alberto Sanjuan, Aleksandrs Saveljevs, Dennis Sceviour, Ralf Schaefer, Ralf Schafer, Manuel Schenske, Norman Schmidt, Frank Schneider, Ed Schroder, Sven Schuele, Sven Schule, Alcides Schulz, Alessandro Scotti, Lawrence Sebald, Martin Sedlak, Vince Sempronio, Antonio Senatore, Fermin Serrano, Andrea Sgobbi, Daniel Shawul, Volodymyr Shcherbyna, Amanj Sherwany, Michael Sherwin, Grzegorz Sidorowicz, Allard Siemelink, Evgeniy Silchenko, Eric Silverman, Jasper Sinclair, Will Singleton, Kai Skibbe, Per Skjerpe, Oleg Smirnov, Tony Soares, Christian Soderstrom, Bluefever Software, Shaheryar Sohail, Christian Sommerfeld, Daniel Sparks, Shikhar Srivastava, Vlad Stamate, John Stanback, Roland Stuckardt, Johanes Suhardjo, Dmitry Sultanov, Arseniy Surkov, Steen Suurballe, James Swafford, Thomas Swayze, Antoni Szczepanski, Balazs Szilagyi, Werner Taelemans, Vincent Tang, Milos Tatarevic, Robert Taylor, Franck Tempet, Fernando Tenorio, Moritz Terink, Amar Thapa, Christophe Theron, Nathan Thom, Alexander Tian, Krasimir Topchiyski, Cristopher Torgrip, Antonio Torrecillas, Eric Triki, Jost Triller, Jonathan Tseng, Alexander Turikov, Ulrich Turke, Omer Faruk Tutkun, Gustaf Ullberg, Mark Uniacke, Daniel Uranga, Paul Villanueva Urquijo, Engin Ustun, Oliver Uwira, Per-Ola Valfridsson, Andres Valverde, Juan Manuel Vazquez, Pablo Vazquez, Jose M Velasco, Koundinya Veluri, Joel Veness, Stephan Vermeire, Richard Vida, Tom Vijlbrief, Luigino Viscione, Cristian Vlasceanu, Fabian von der Warth, Simon Waters, Andy Watkins, Jerry Donald Watson, Zach Wegner, David Weller, Daniel White, Michael Whiteley, Jamie Whiting, Chris Whittington, Andrew Williams, Jefferson Wilson, Laurens Winkelhagen, Michal Witanowski, Jeremy Wright, Dan Wulff, Martin Wyngaarden, Kelvin Yang, Minkai Yang, Mehmet Eren Yesilyurt, Eric Yip, Vincent Yu, Dragan Zdravkovic, Marco Zerbinati, Kyle Zhang, Franck Zibi, Stefan Zipproth, Roger Zuehlsdorf, Johannes Zwanzger, Stockfish team members, Gary Linscott and others.

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

Other incredibly useful free software we use every day:

• phpBB - Forum engine
• Apache - Web server
• PHP - Scripting language
• MySQL - Database engine