Ludwig Zagler

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Ludwig Zagler, (September 26, 1938 - November 30, 2007) was a German computer scientist at Technical University of Munich, chess player, member of the German chess problem association Die Schwalbe and computer chess researcher and programmer. Along with Siegfried Jahn, he was co-author of the chess programs Daja, which already played the first German computer chess tournament, the First GI Computer Chess Tournament, 1975 in Dortmund, and author of the chess program Elsa , which competed at the 2nd WCCC 1977 in Toronto. In cooperation with Thomas Ströhlein, Ludwig Zagler researched on three and four piece chess endgames and did a complete retrograde analysis to construct endgame databases of KRK and KRKB.

=Selected Publications=
 * Thomas Ströhlein, Ludwig Zagler (1977). Analyzing games by Boolean matrix iteration. Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 19, No. 2
 * Thomas Ströhlein, Ludwig Zagler (1978). Ergebnisse einer vollstandigen Analyse von Schachendspielen: König und Turm gegen König, König und Turm gegen König und Läufer. Report, Institut für Informatik, Technical University of Munich (German)

=External Links=
 * Ludwig Zagler's ICGA Tournaments
 * The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Ludwig Zagler
 * Systementwicklungsprojekt: Hamilton-Kreise in Platonischen Körpern, 2007, Betreuer: Dr. Ludwig Zagler, Programmiersprache: C/C++ (German)

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