Dieter Steinwender

Dieter Steinwender (* 1955 in Elmshorn ) is a German entrepreneur , computer scientist and computer chess expert .

Life

Dieter Steinwender went to school at the Bismarck High School in his hometown of Elmshorn. He learned to play chess at the age of 13 and studied computer science with a focus on artificial intelligence at the University of Hamburg . Together with the linguist and science journalist Frederic Friedel , he founded the "Journal of the First Computer Chess Club of the Federal Republic" in 1982, which appeared for the first time in 1983 under the title Computer Chess International and was distributed from mid-1986 under its final title Computer Chess and Games (CSS for short), and was her editor-in-chief for many years . Together with the Austrian chess programmer "Chrilly" Donniger , he wrote the didactic chess program MiniMAX . He also wrote the book Schach am PC together with Friedel in 1995 (see publications ).

He played chess with the Elmshorner SC (chess club) from 1896 and still plays in the Blankeneser chess association. It wasn't until 2016 that the 60-year-old Steinwender managed to wrest a draw from world chess champion Magnus Carlsen in a simultaneous game.

Publications (selection)

• with Frederic Friedel: Chess on the PC - Bits and Bytes in the Royal Game , Pearson Education 1998, ISBN 978-3-87791-522-6 .
• Computer Karate - How to Play Against Chess Computers in Computer Chess and Games (CSS), No. 4, 1994, pp. 9-14

Web links

• Photo (1983) of Dieter Steinwender (left) with Frederic Friedel, accessed on November 20, 2017
• Photo (2016) accessed November 20, 2017
• Book cover from Schach am PC accessed on November 20, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Steinwender, Dieter. FIDE index card, accessed November 25, 2017 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} The world champion was almost checkmated. In: Abendblatt.de . March 9, 2016. Retrieved November 25, 2017 . 
3. ^ DWZ index card - Dieter Steinwender. German Chess Federation , accessed on November 25, 2017 (index card in the DWZ database).