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Subject: Re: Just Curious - Does anyone know Johan de Koning of Chessmaster fame?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 13:33:45 02/28/03

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On February 28, 2003 at 13:34:38, Cliff Sears wrote:

>Just nosy.  Does anyone know Johan de Koning?  I do not find any web sites on
>him.  Is he still going to be the programmer is there is a Chessmaster 10000?
>How did he hook up with Chessmaster? Does he go to any computer chess
>tournaments?
>
>He seems like a "Mystery Man" in the world of computer chess

Of course, being the ex-project manager for Chessmaster, I know Johan well. We
have traded many e-mails, and have talked about many non-Chessmaster topics. He
prefers to remain incognito, not posting to any message boards such as this one,
although he regularly vists and keeps up to date on most or all of the important
ones.

I have no idea if he is going to be involved with CMX000 (as we were calling
it). I know that he is providing the engine for the soon-to-be-released PS2
version.

Johan became involved with Chessmaster during his days as the engine writer for
TASC. TASC supplied The King engine to Mindscape (or was it still the Software
Toolworks) for Chessmaster 3000 (I believe) back in 1991. Eventually, TASC went
out of business, but Mindscape took on Johan as an independent contractor, which
he remains still.

He goes to at least two computer chess tournaments a year as a participator, and
at least one a year as an observer.

And he probably very much appreciates being called a "Mystery Man". :-)

jm



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