Hi, I am Mark Lefler. I am the author of an old chess program named NOW - http://www.top-5000.nl/dl.htm?file=dl/now.zip is a version from 1991. I am actually again developing NOW and trying to bring it up to date, and I have started on a much faster C version of it which I will probably call SEGA ("now" in Bulgarian). I am also co-author of the universal game playing program ZIllions of Games (http://www.zillions-of-games.com). If you think chess programming is hard, try programming AI for a game you do not even yet know the rules for!

Most of my ideas do not pan out, but I will try to start documenting them on the site here. Thanks to everyone for all the hard work in adding to the Wiki!