Matthias Engelbach

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Matthias Engelbach,
a German chess programmer and electrical engineer. In 1978, Matthias Engelbach started to develop the chess program Schach in Algol running on mainframe computers [1]. In the early 90s, along with co-author Thomas Kreitmair, Schach 3.0 was a complete re-write in x86 (486) assembly language for PCs, to become one of the fastest programs of its time [2].

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  1. ↑ The Fifteenth ACM Computer Chess Championship, San Francisco California, October 7-9, 1984, pdf from The Computer History Museum
  2. ↑ Schach 3.0 by Vincent Diepeveen, CCC, April 08, 2002

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