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 Blitz database: Gabor Szots, Sergio Martinez, Basti Dangca, Ray Banks, Shaun Brewer, Graham Banks, Volodymyr Shcherbyna.

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, Michael Abayneh, Niels Abildskov, Enrique Sanchez Acosta, Mike Adams, Thomas Adolph, Rafid Ahsan, Visan Alexandru, Richard Allbert, Max Allendorf, Peter Alloysius, Rasmus Althoff, Juan Pablo Fernandez Alvarez, Leen Ammeraal, Jeffrey An, Michael An, Volker Annus, Volker Annuss, Conor Anstey, Benny Antonsson, Daniel Anulliero, Edsel Apostol, Gonzallo Arro, Stan Arts, Lars Aurud, Antar Azri, Ivan Bacigal, Aaron Baird, Miguel Ballicora, Amir Ban, Christian Barreteau, Marcin Henryk Bartkowiak, Arjun Basandrai, Bogdan Basarabeanu, Steffen Basting, Max Bauer, Shaun Beautement, Aaron Becker, Alvaro Begue, Wieland Belka, Marco Belli, Szymon Belz, Abel Belzunces, Davide Bencini, Casper W. Berg, John Bergbom, Albert Bertilsson, Johnny Bigert, Aart Bik, Yves De Billoez, Markus Binder, Jeff Bishop, Norman Blais, Normand Blais, Uri Blass, Erdi Ata Bleda, Hans Blom, Fonzy Bluemers, E Boatwright, Cosmo Bobak, Alex Boby, Volker Bohm, Chris Bolt, Terry Bolt, Ivan Bonkin, Michael Borgstadt, Martin Borriss, Bert van den Bosch, Borko Boskovic, Jean Bouchet, Xavier Bouchet, Christopher Bowron, Ross Boyd, Lucas Braesch, Oliver Brausch, Dennis Breuker, Miles Bright, Sander Maassen vd Brink, Jan Brouwer, Alex Brunetti, Martin Bryant, Gabor Buella, Dieter Buerssner, Stefan de Buhr, Jim Bumgardner, Romain Burgot, Shay Bushinsky, Vadim Bykov, Goh CJ, Eduardo Caceres, Carlos del Cacho, Carmelo Calzerano, Raoni Campos, Giuseppe Cannella, Mark Carlson, Guillermo Carvalho, Pedro Castro, Fabio Cavicchio, Claus Cederberg, Can Cetin, Ma Chao, Manik Charan, Roland Chastain, Laurent Chea, Philippe Chevalier, Shawn Chidester, Andrew Chien, William Ching, Vadim Chizhov, Piotr Cichy, David Cimbalista, Gianluca Cisana, Philipp Classen, Vivien Clauzon, Rui Coelho, Federico Corigliano, Federico Andres Corigliano, Pedro Mourao Correia, Sandro Corsini, Claudio Della Corte, Marco Costalba, Remi Coulom, Anthony Cozzie, Jason Creighton, Don Cross, Viktor Csomor, Loic Cuenot, Johannes Czech, Nicolai Czempin, Pawel Czerminski, Piotr Dachtera, David Dahlem, Don Dailey, Christian Daley, Tijs van Dam, Alessandro Damiani, Martin Danielsson, Jon Dart, Kyle Davis, Christian Dean, Ben Dean-Kawamura, Richard Delorme, Vadim Demichev, Gautam Dhingra, Daniel Diaz, Emilio Diaz, Manuel Diaz, Antonio Dieguez, Dusan Dobes, Mike Dokken, Zhang Dong, Chrilly Donninger, Luca Dormio, Christophe Drieu, Alejandro Dubrovsky, Patrice Duhamel, Michael Dvorkin, Johan Dykstrom, Steven Edwards, Finn Eggers, Hrafn Eiriksson, Kristian Ekman, Dogac Eldenk, Sean Empey, David Garcinuno Enriquez, Philippe Fabiani, Andrew Fan, Ubaldo Farina, Ubaldo Andrea Farina, Ernesto Torres Feliciano, Peter Fendrich, Jorge Fernandez, Helmut Fett, Martin Fierz, Guillermo Filia, Sune Fischer, Tim Foden, Bill Forster, Josue Forte, Andrei Fortuna, Marty Franz, Dr Colin Frayn, Klaus Friedel, Ronald Friederich, Anders Fuglseth, Jean-Christophe Gabillard, Giuseppe Gadola, Philippe Gailhac, Thomas Gaksch, Jose Carlos Martinez Galan, Marcin Gardyjan, Dr. Onno Garms, Antonio Garro, Scott Gasch, Andrea Gatti, Oscar Gavira, Jean-Francois Gazet, Stefano Gemma, Matthias Gemuh, Mincho Georgiev, George Georgopoulos, Elia Giaccardi, Salvatore Giannotti, Levi Gibson, Martin Giepmans, Jonathan Gilchrist, Matthew Gingell, Marco Giusfredi, Mateo Gjika, Evert Glebbeek, Fabio Gobbato, F. Javier Salido Gomez, Julien Goncalves, Romain Goussault, Andrew Grant, Thorsten Greiner, Conor Griffin, Darragh Griffin, Steve Griffin, Neels Groenewald, Raphael Grundrich, Denis Gruzdev, Christian Guenther, Alex Guerrero, Gabriel Guillory, Oscar Toledo Gutierrez, Jakob Hackstein, Jacob Hales, Arnaud Halle, Nicholas Hamilton, Bas Hamstra, Aloysius Han, 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, Martin Holder, Dan Homan, Martin Honert, Dan Honeycutt, Jay Honnold, Peter Horvath, Robert Houdart, Morgan Houppin, Shaun Howe, Patrick Huang, Yinuo Huang, Rudolf Huber, Shane Hudson, Marc-Philippe Huget, Peter Hughes, Juri Huikari, Dylan Hunn, Johan Hutting, Nguyen Viet Huy, Robert Hyatt, Tom Hyer, Alessandro Iavicoli, Werner Inmann, Nicu Ionita, Giuliano Ippoliti, Hironori Ishibashi, Miguel Izquierdo, Thomas Jahn, Balazs Jako, Aleksandar Jaksic, Adam Jedrych, Danny Jelsma, Colin Jenkins, Harald Johnsen, Alex Johnson, Christophe Jolly, Wander A. Ferreira Jr, Ben-Hur Carlos Langoni Junior, Kim Kahre, Tom Kalmijn, Radoslaw Kamowski, Pradu Kannan, Dietrich Kappe, Francois Karr, Jean-Philippe Karr, Dominik Kaser, Seth Kasmann, Larry Kaufman, Mohammad Kayali, Daniel Ke, Dan Kelsey, Alexander Kernozhitsky, Tom Kerrigan, Marcel van Kervinck, Niyaz Khasanov, Joona Kiiski, Dave King, Patrick M. King, Tom King, Terje Kirstihagen, Dave Kittinger, Jan Klima, Chad Koch, Janne Kokkala, Marek Kolacz, Thomas Kolarik, Jan-Frederik Konopka, Frank Kopp, Roman Korba, Alexey Korneychuk, Evgeniy Korniloff, Igor Korshunov, Maksym Korzh, George Koskeridis, Tim Kosse, Eugene Kotlov, Marius Kowalczyk, Pawel Koziol, Hans-Joachim Kraas, Jonathan Kreuzer, Kyle Krowpman, Kolja Kuhn, Adam Kujawski, Adam Kulju, Michal Kurek, Nikita Kurgin, Tamas Kuzmics, Sylvain Lacombe, Sylvain Ladoux, Sebastian Lague, Matthew Lai, Jean-Yves Lallemand, Matthew Lang, Matthias Lang, Andrea Lanza, Rak Laptudirm, Tor Lattimore, Ryan Lau, Michael Lawatsch, Greg Lazarou, Mike Leany, Oliver Leenders, Mark Lefler, Paulo Lemus, Philipp Lenk, Patrick Leonhardt, Fabien Letouzey, Aaron Li, Zong Zheng Li, Alexander Liang, Tom Likens, Feiyu Lin, Jose Andres Morales Linares, Jacob Bors Lind, Anton Lindenmair, Dr.Jay Lindgren, Gary Linscott, Luca Lissandrello, Alexander Litov, Eric Liu, Alex Lobanov, Stuart Nevans Locke, Gabriele Lombardo, James F. Long, Dominique Longbien, Ulf Lorenz, Stephen Lovell, Robert Lubczynski, Bruno Lucas, Harald Luessen, Stef Luijten, Maximilian Lupke, Matthias Luscher, George Lyapko, Kylie MacFarquharson, Louis James Mackenzie-Smith, Erik Madsen, Swastik Majumder, Ivan Maklyakov, Odd Gunnar Malin, Stefano Malloggi, Christophe J. Mandin, Edoardo Manino, Andres Manzanares, Andrea Manzo, Eric Marathee, Julien Marcel, Dominic C Marcello, Filippo Marfe, Giovanni Di Maria, Kevin Markman, Sergei Markoff, John Marountas, Mariusz Marszalkowski, Gediminas Masaitis, Youri Matiounine, Srdja Matovic, Andreas Matthies, Steve Maughan, Mike Maxim, Anton Maydell, Thomas Mayer, Jonas Mayr, Mauro Mazzieri, Kris McAulay, Thomas McBurney, Jonathan McDermid, John McFarland, Liam McGuire, Peter McKenzie, Matt McKnight, Connor McMonigle, Vladimir Medvedev, Rei Meguro, Daniel Mehrmann, Johan Melin, Maxim Melnikov, Marco Meloni, Bruno Mendes, Thomas Mergener, John Merlino, Luca Metehau, Sergey Meus, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Tomasz Michniewski, Gabor Mihaly, Helge Milde, Anastasios Milikas, Dustin J. Mitchell, Tony Mokonen, Trey Moller, Lucas Monge, Maurizio Monge, Gabriel Montes, Dave Moore, Bruce Moreland, Chris Moreton, Alex Morozov, Dmitry Morozov, Ferdinand Mosca, Edmund Moshamer, Alexandru Mosoi, William Mota, Narbeh Mouradian, H.G. Muller, Harm Geert Muller, Mathias Muller, Steve Mulligan, Roberto Munto, Ron Murawski, Luca Naddei, Aleksandar Naumov, Pallav Nawani, Joachim Enggard Nebel, Sergei Nefedov, Sam Nelson, Jan Nemec, Rian Neogi, Pham Hong Nguyen, Jaco van Niekerk, Jens Baek Nielsen, Jesper Nielsen, Walter van Niftrik, Elias Nilsson, Torbjorn Nilsson, Phokham Nonava, Martin Novak, Bernd Nuernberger, Mikko Nummelin, Josh Odom, Adam Oellermann, Eric Oldre, Lourenco Oliveira, Lucas Oliveri, Vincent Ollivier, Pawel Osikowski, Peter Osterlund, Jori Ostrovskij, Felipe Otaviano, Mark Jordan and Others, Orhan Ozturk, Mathieu Page, Jeremy Pages, Marco Pagnoncelli, Rahman Paidar, Salvador Pallares, Matt Palmer, Marco Pampaloni, Evgeni Pandurski, Aryan Parekh, Gian-Carlo Pascutto, Arkadiusz Paterek, Mitchel Paulin, Alex Pawelko, Kieren Pearson, JoAnn D. Peeler, Taimo Peelo, Krisztian Peocz, Valeriy Pererodov, Cesar Rodolfo Contreras Perez, Lance Perkins, Maciej Pestka, Kurt Peters, Jonatan Pettersson, Thomas Petzke, Jochen Peussner, Archishmaan Peyyet, Roland Pfister, Christos Philippou, Gunther Piez, Ilari Pihlajisto, Richard Pijl, Janez Podobnik, Mateusz Luksik, Poland, Robert Pope, Giacomo Porpiglia, Rudolf Posch, Shaun Press, Marcus Prewarski, Arturs Priede, Clemens Pruell, Kamil Przybyla, Daniel Jose Queralto, David Rabel, Landon W. Rabern, Vasik Rajlich, Chan Rasjid, David Rasmussen, Dan Ravensloft, Adrien Regimbald, Tom Reinitz, Sylvain Renard, Gerrit Reubold, Fritz Reul, Stuart Riffle, Luigi Ripamonti, Nicola Rizzuti, Charles Roberson, Joey Robert, Nicolas Robert, Erik Robertsson, Federico Rojo, Jean-Francois Romang, Tord Romstad, Toma Roncevic, Peter Rosendahl, Jonathan Rosenthal, Benjamin Rosseaux, Sidhant Roymoulik, Holger Ruckdeschel, Alberto Alonso Ruibal, Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz, Ilya Rukavishnikov, Petur Runolfsson, Rhys Rustad-Elliott, Doruk SEKERCIOGLU, David Safranek, Arjun Sahlot, Severi Salminen, Maurizio Sambati, Bendik Samseth, Lana Samson, Juan Benitez Sanchez, Jakob Sandholm, Alberto Sanjuan, Aleksandrs Saveljevs, Mauro Scarpa, Dennis Sceviour, Ralf Schaefer, Ralf Schafer, Frank Scharn, Reinhard Scharnagl, Francois Scheurer, Norman Schmidt, Frank Schneider, Josh Scholar, Ed Schroder, Gunther Schrufer, Sven Schuele, Sven Schule, Alcides Schulz, Alessandro Scotti, Lawrence Sebald, Martin Sedlak, Nicolas Segl, Vince Sempronio, Antonio Senatore, Fermin Serrano, Jedidiah F. Sessions, Andrea Sgobbi, Daniel Shawul, Volodymyr Shcherbyna, John Shedletsky, Amanj Sherwany, Michael Sherwin, Evgeny Shtranvasser, Roman Shynkarenko, Grzegorz Sidorowicz, Allard Siemelink, Evgeniy Silchenko, Eric Silverman, Will Singleton, Mauritz Sjodin, Kai Skibbe, Per Skjerpe, Samuel Slutzky, Oleg Smirnov, Tony Soares, Christian Soderstrom, Bluefever Software, Shaheryar Sohail, Christian Sommerfeld, Daniel Sparks, Fayd Speare, Hanning Sperr, Dan Spracklen, Kathe Spracklen, Shikhar Srivastava, Vlad Stamate, John Stanback, James Stanley, Justin Stanley, Jakob Steininger, Lorenzo Stella, Matt Stevens, Marcus Stjarnas, Eric Stock, Marek Strejczek, Gregory Strong, Roland Stuckardt, Johanes Suhardjo, Dmitry Sultanov, Arseniy Surkov, Steen Suurballe, James Swafford, Thomas Swayze, Antoni Szczepanski, Balazs Szilagyi, Omid David Tabibi, Werner Taelemans, Vincent Tang, Milos Tatarevic, Chris Tatham, 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, Alexander Turikov, Ulrich Turke, Omer Faruk Tutkun, Gustaf Ullberg, Mark Uniacke, Daniel Uranga, Engin Ustun, Oliver Uwira, Per-Ola Valfridsson, Luca Vallisa, Andres Valverde, Marcel Vanthoor, George Varentsov, Vaclav Vavra, Juan Manuel Vazquez, Pablo Vazquez, Akhil Velagapudi, Nicolas Velin, Koundinya Veluri, Joel Veness, Stephan Vermeire, Jyrki Vesterinen, Richard Vida, Tom Vijlbrief, Martin Villwock, Luigino Viscione, Loek Vissers, Cristian Vlasceanu, Erik Walstra, Fabian von der Warth, Frederik Wass, Andy Watkins, Jerry Donald Watson, Ingo Wechsung, Zach Wegner, David Weller, Daniel White, Michael Whiteley, Jamie Whiting, Chris Whittington, Andrew Williams, Jefferson Wilson, Laurens Winkelhagen, Michal Witanowski, Andrew Wright, Jeremy Wright, Dan Wulff, Dave Wyatt, Martin Wyngaarden, Kelvin Yang, Minkai Yang, Mehmet Eren Yesilyurt, Eric Yip, Vincent Yu, Ales Zamuda, Dragan Zdravkovic, Kyle Zhang, Franck Zibi, Georg v. Zimmermann, Stefan Zipproth, Roger Zuehlsdorf, Johannes Zwanzger, Berlin Technical University faculty members, Stockfish team members, Gary Linscott and others, Rajiv Bakulesh Shah & team.

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