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Subject: Re: How many professional chess programmers there really is?

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 05:49:44 08/05/98

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On August 05, 1998 at 08:22:15, Komputer Korner wrote:


>That would make 9 full time chess engine programmers.
>Chrilly Donninger
>Frans Morsch
>Matthias Wullenweber
>Ed Schroder
>Johan de Koenig
>Dave Kittinger
>Richard Lang
>Chris Whittington
>J.C. Weill
>
>Plus, Mindscape, Sierra, and Titus keep programmers busy on their Chess GUI's,
>as well as certain other individuals that write Chess Gui's for the engine
>programmers above, but for chess engines, those above are the professionals.
>
>All the rest are part or spare timers. Does anybody know of anyone else? This
>shows how tough a business this is?
>--
>Komputer Korner


If you count Matthias Wullenweber, you should also include Mathias Feist, maybe
more so. Or maybe you want to exclude both, since they are not involved in the
core engine.

Why include only Weill and not Baudot ? I'm not sure either of them are really
professionals.

Amir




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