Christopher Lutz

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Christopher Lutz, a German chess grandmaster, in 1995 and 2001 German chess champion, and as computer scientist at times affiliated with University of Hagen due to distance education. He was book author and chess consultant of Hydra, and also had own experience in computer chess programming. Along with Michael Schmitt, Christopher Lutz is co-author of the chess program Paul, written in Turbo-Pascal, which played the WMCCC 1989 in Portorož. The authors further received the Mephisto "Young Programmers" Scholarship of $2,500 for programmers under 19 years of age who have written the best chess program, sponsored by Hegener & Glaser. Soon later, Christopher Lutz wrote a second chess program in C|Turbo C and Assembly, Bernie, which participated at the first IPCCC 1991 in Paderborn.

=Photos= 37th Chess Olympiad, Turin 2006, Germany - India 1-3 Arkadij Naiditsch - Viswanathan Anand ½-½ Artur Yussupow - Krishnan Sasikiran ½-½ Christopher Lutz - Pendyala Harikrishna 0-1 Alexander Graf - Surya Shekhar Ganguly 0-1

=Selected Publications=
 * Christopher Lutz (1996). Report on the Match 3-Hirn vs. Christopher Lutz. ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 2
 * Christopher Lutz (1999, 2003). Endgame Secrets : How to Plan in the Endgame in Chess. Pavilion Books
 * Lars Bremer (2005). Interview: GM Christopher Lutz. CSS Online, pdf (German)
 * Ulf Lorenz, Christian Donninger, Muhammad N. Ali, Erdogan Günes, Christopher Lutz (2020). Hydra: Report and technical overview. ICGA Journal, Vol. 42, Nos. 2-3

=External Links=
 * Christopher Lutz from Wikipedia
 * Lutz, Christopher FIDE Chess Profile
 * Christopher Lutz | Person der Schachzeitgeschichte- German Chess Federation (German)
 * The chess games of Christopher Lutz from hessgames.com
 * Christopher Lutz chess games - 365Chess.com
 * Christopher Lutz' ICGA Tournaments

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