Don Dailey

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Don Dailey (* 10. March 1956 in Kalamazoo , Michigan ; † 22. November 2013 in Roanoke , Virginia ) was an American computer scientist and computer chess - programmers . Together with his compatriot and colleague GM Larry Kaufman , he developed several chess programs , most recently Komodo , which, after his death and further development by Mark Lefler and Erdogan Günes , both at the 22nd  World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) in 2016 and on the 23rd WCCC 2017 won the title of World Computer Chess Champion.

Life

Don Dailey (right) with Socrates in the game against GM Patrick Wolff at the 1992 Harvard Cup

Don Dailey began developing chess programs in the 1980s. His first program, which was created together with Larry Kaufman and the American chess player Sam Sloan (* 1944), was initially called Rex (Latin for "king") and was later marketed as RexChess . It participated in a few early WCCC tournaments.

Then he developed together with Larry Kaufman Socrates , which won the 23rd North American computer chess championship in 1993  and was able to distance the previous year's winners HiTech and Deep Thought . Building on this, he then developed Star Socrates , which in 1995 at the 8th WCCC only had to admit defeat to the new world champion Fritz 3 in the playoffs . In 1999 he again took part in the WCCC, now with his new Mini program.

From 2009 he worked with Larry Kaufman initially on Doch . From 2010 it became Komodo , the later WCCC world champion in 2016 and 2017.

In 2013 Don Dailey died of leukemia at the age of 57 .

Publications (selection)

  • Using Cilk to Write Multiprocessor Chess Programs. PDF; 260 kB (English) accessed on November 22, 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RexChess in the ChessProgramming Wiki accessed on November 22, 2017
  2. ↑ ACM COMPUTER CHESS by Bill Wall.Retrieved November 29, 2017
  3. ↑ Star Socrates in the ChessProgramming Wiki, accessed on November 22, 2017
  4. ↑ Mini in the ChessProgramming Wiki, accessed on November 22, 2017
  5. ↑ But in Chess Programming Wiki Retrieved on November 22, 2017
  6. ↑ Komodo in the ChessProgramming Wiki , accessed on November 22, 2017
  7. ^ Don Dailey, author of the Komodo chess engine, passes away , Chessdom.com, November 23, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Dailey, Don
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist and computer chess programmer
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Kalamazoo , Michigan
DATE OF DEATH 22nd November 2013
Place of death Roanoke , Virginia