Jef Bucas
e2.bucas.name viewer; libblackwood
The modern era's infrastructure. He built the e2.bucas.name board viewer that became the community's record book, and rewrote Blackwood's solver in C as libblackwood, roughly doubling its speed and powering the November 2020 wave of 469s. He tied the 470 in 2024, always crediting Blackwood.
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