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| |playername = Ed Trice | |||
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| |birthname = Edward A. Trice | |||
| |country = {{USA}} | |||
| |datebirth = {{birth date and age|1966|12|5}} | |||
| |placebirth = {{flagicon|Pennsylvania}} ], ] | |||
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| '''Edward A. Trice''' (born ], ] in ], ]) is an ] ] and ]. He invented a ] known as ], and has created several ] and ] ]. He is a ] rated Class-D ] player with a ] of 1303.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlTnmtHst.php?12495284|title=Ed Trice's member details and tournament history at the USCF|accessdate=2009-15-01}}</ref> He is also a Gothic Chess expert with a Gothic Chess rating of 2046.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gothic-chess.com/players-games.php|title=Ed Trice's ranking at the Gothic Chess website|accessdate=2009-15-01}} Trice plays under the handle "''GothicInventor''".</ref> | |||
| ==Chess== | |||
| Trice wrote a ] program called The Sniper, which in April 1987, was the first ] to eclipse the ] of 2200, which is equivalent to that of "] Master".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?12528567|title=The Sniper Compx|publisher=]|accessdate=2007-07-27}}</ref> The Sniper ran on processors no faster than 16 MHz, and achieved this result roughly four years after the ] became the first ever ''hardware'' machine to earn the Master title.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Dunne A|title=Check is in the Mail|journal=Chess Life|pages=32-34|year=1991|month=Dec}}</ref> | |||
| In 1989, he won an exhibition game against the ] chess program in 20 moves,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1272214|title=Ed Trice vs. Deep Thought|accessdate=2009-15-01}}</ref> its quickest loss ever.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?pid=13728&result=2nd|title=Losses of Deep Thought|accessdate=2009-15-01}}</ref> | |||
| ==Gothic Chess== | |||
| {{main|Gothic Chess}} | |||
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| In 2000, Trice patented the commercial ] '']'', derived from '']''. This variant differs from ] in the initial positioning of some of the back-row pieces.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Trice E|title=80-Square Chess|journal=ICGA Journal|volume=27|issue=2|pages=81-96|year=2004|month=June|url=http://www.gothicchess.com/80.pdf|accessdate=2007-07-28}}</ref> It should be pointed out that Gothic Chess is closer to Bird's Chess (first proposed by ] of Great Britian in 1874) than Capablanca's Chess. | |||
| Collaborating with Gil Dodgen, Trice produced a Gothic Chess program named ''Gothic Vortex'', which was based on the ] program ] by ]. In 2004, the first ever Gothic Chess Computer World Championship was held, fielding entrants from four different countries. ''Gothic Vortex'', with its ability to announce checkmate from a distance of 268 moves, won by the score of 14-0.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessville.com/GothicChess/ComputerWorldChampionships.htm|title=Gothic Chess Computer World Championship|accessdate=2009-15-01}}</ref> | |||
| == Checkers == | |||
| In 2003, Trice and Dodgen demonstrated that it was possible for a ] program to fail to win a theoretically-won position with as few as seven pieces on the board (four for the winning side, three for the side that should lose).<ref>{{cite journal|author=Trice E, Dodgen G|title=The 7-Piece Perfect Play Lookup Database for the Game of Checkers|journal=ICGA Journal|volume=26|issue=4|pages=229-238|year=2003|month=Dec|url=http://www.worldchampionshipcheckers.com/WCC_Database.pdf|accessdate=2009-01-15}}</ref> Their ''World Championship Checkers'' computer program was the first to use a so-called "Perfect Play Lookup" database to demonstrate how to potentially postpone a loss indefinitely. Dodgen and Trice were the first to implement such technology.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldchampionshipcheckers.com|title=World Championship Checkers website|accessdate=2007-07-27}}</ref> In 2007, ] ] the game of checkers,<ref name="tcr">{{cite web | url=http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1144079 | title=Checkers Is Solved | date=2007-07-19 | accessdate=2007-07-20 | publisher=Science | author=Schaeffer, J}}</ref> and acknowledged Trice and Dodgen's database verification.<ref>{{cite web|author=Schaeffer, J|url=http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~chinook/thankyou/|title=Acknowledgements |accessdate=27 July|accessyear=2007|}}</ref> | |||
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