Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 04:53:41 08/06/98
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On August 05, 1998 at 08:22:15, Komputer Korner wrote: >On August 05, 1998 at 02:17:33, Amir Ban wrote: > >>On August 05, 1998 at 01:23:52, Jouni Uski wrote: >> >>>Outside Scroder BV and Chessbase I only find Richard Lang and Chrilly >>>Donninger. Are there more full pro programmers? Hirsch, Uniacke and Koening >>>should have now other main profession I think. >>> >>>Jouni >> >>I think Dave Kittinger should also be on the list. >> >>If de Koening needs another job, it can only mean that he got a really bad deal >>from Mindscape. >> >>Amir > >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 As far as I know, neither JC Weill nor MF Baudot are full time chess programmers (they have never been). They both have another job. The last time I checked this out, JC Weill was working at DEC. >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
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