Matthias Wüllenweber

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Matthias Wüllenweber (2010)
Matthias Wüllenweber (left) with the Junior 6 chess program during the game against Robert Hübner at the Dortmund Chess Days (2000)

Matthias Wüllenweber (* 1961 ) is a German entrepreneur , journalist and software developer .

Life

He attended the Herseler-Werth-Schule in Bornheim from 1966 to 1970 and then the Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium in Wesseling , where he graduated from high school in 1980 . He then studied theoretical physics in Bonn , Edinburgh and Bremen .

He came up with the idea for ChessBase , a chess database program , which he implemented himself using an Atari home computer and presented to the then world chess champion Garri Kasparov on May 19, 1986 . He “was obviously fascinated” by the revolutionary possibilities that this new software offered him.

To market ChessBase, Matthias Wüllenweber founded the company of the same name in Hamburg in 1987 together with the science journalist Frederic Friedel . He is also one of the fathers of the Fritz chess program . Together with Mathias Feist, he was responsible for the interface of Fritz 6 , while the chess engine was created by Frans Morsch .

His physics didactics software "Albert - Physics interactive" was written as a diploma thesis and was distributed by Springer-Verlag. He is also the developer of the Ludwig music software . Ludwig was used by the MDR in 2018 for the Handel experiment, a composition competition for schools.

Awards

In 1989 he received the Media Prize of the German Chess Federation for ChessBase, the highest award given by the German Chess Federation . In 1993 he was awarded the German-Austrian University Software Prize for the physics software "Albert".

Publications (selection)

  • ChessBase for Beginners - Part 1. Computer Chess & Games (CSS), No. 3, 1990, pp. 22–24.
  • ChessBase for Beginners - Volume 2. CSS, No. 4, 1990, pp. 17–19.
  • ChessBase for Beginners - Volume 3. CSS, No. 5, 1990, pp. 21–24.
  • Developed from scratch. CSS, No. 4, 1994, pp. 43-47.
  • The summiteer. CSS, No. 2, 1997, pp. 17-21.

Web links

Commons : Matthias Wüllenweber  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://schachkomet.de/ims0060.htm - Info-Mail Schach Nr. 59 (accessed on May 6, 2019)
  2. ↑ Otto Borik : Meyer's chess dictionary. (Chess knowledge for everyone). Meyers Lexikonverlag, Mannheim 1993, p. 345, ISBN 3-411-08811-7 .
  3. ↑ 25 Years of ChessBase Article from May 19, 2011, accessed on October 25, 2017.
  4. ↑ The founder himself programs article in taz.de from May 19, 2011, accessed on October 26, 2017.
  5. ↑ Computerschach & Spiele (CSS), No. 5, 1999, p. 14.
  6. ↑ DIE ZEIT: Physics interactive . In: The time . July 26, 1996, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed January 27, 2019]).
  7. ↑ “Ludwig is a serving software in the best sense of the word” Interview with Matthias Wüllenweber in the chess magazine KARL , online , accessed on October 26, 2017.
  8. ↑ mdr.de: Composition program "Ludwig3" - creativity that can be heard immediately | MDR.DE. Retrieved January 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Wüllenweber, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist, entrepreneur, journalist and software developer
DATE OF BIRTH 1961