David Kittinger
David "Dave" Kittinger is an American electrical engineer and computer chess - programmers .
Life
Dave Kittinger from Anchorage , Alaska , moved to Van Nuys , California , a district of Los Angeles , around 1980 . As early as 1979 he took part in the 10th North American Computer Chess Championship with his first chess program MyChess . It took fourth place out of twelve participants. The following year it played in the 3rd World Computer Chess Championship. At that time he started working for the Hong Kong- based British chess computer manufacturer Novag Industries Ltd. to work and developed several chess programs, such as Super Expert and Super Forte , and later WChess , which was the best of the eight participating computer chess programs at the 5th Harvard Chess Cup in 1994 .
The Super Constellation , which appeared in the summer of 1984, was particularly well-known and popular for its particularly humane style of play. The reason for this was seen as the pre-scan heuristic (PSH) implemented by Kittinger, interpreted half-jokingly as “ P asst S icher H albweg”. Fans affectionately called the device (similar to the Lockheed Super Constellation aircraft ) their "Super Connie".
literature
- Dieter Steinwender and Frederic Friedel : Chess on the PC - Bits and Bytes in the Royal Game , Pearson Education 1998, ISBN 978-3-87791-522-6 .
- Frederic Friedel: Something new in the west - Frederic Friedel reports on the 24th ACM tournament in Cape May in Computer Chess & Games (CSS), No. 4, 1994, pp. 27–32
- Thorsten Czub: Kittingers Comeback - From “Super-Conny” to “C” program in CSS, No. 4, 1990, pp. 10–15
Web links
- Portrait photo accessed December 4, 2017
- David Kittinger at Schachcomputer.info , accessed December 4, 2017
- Photo of Super Connie , accessed December 4, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Steinwender and Friedel: Schach am PC - Bits and Bytes im Königlichen Spiel , Pearson Education 1998, p. 99, ISBN 978-3-87791-522-6 .
- ^ Martin Gittel: The portrait - David Kittinger and his program MyChess , Rochade 1983, PDF; 460 kB accessed December 4, 2017
- ↑ The Fifth Harvard Cup Human Versus Computer Intel Chess Challenge (English) PDF; 220 kB accessed December 4, 2017
- ↑ Steinwender and Friedel: Schach am PC - Bits and Bytes im Königlichen Spiel , Pearson Education 1998, p. 148, ISBN 978-3-87791-522-6 .
- ↑ In the workshop of a chess programmer - Frederic Friedel visited Dave Kittinger in Computerschach & Spiele (CSS), No. 3, 1984, pp. 6-11
- ↑ Kittingers Comeback - From “Super-Conny” to “C” program in CSS, No. 4, 1990, p. 10
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kittinger, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kittinger, Dave (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American electrical engineer and computer chess programmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |