Steffen A. Jakob

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Steffen Adam Jakob, an German chess player and computer scientist residing in Austria. Steffen holds a Master's degree from Darmstadt University of Technology in 1995, and was research assistant at Vienna University of Technology before he started his professional career as software developer in 1996. As computer chess programmer he is author of the Chess Engine Communication Protocol compatible chess engine Hossa, which competed at the WCCC 2003 in Graz. Steffen already started chess programming in the 80s and made Hossa xboard compatible in 1998. Before he restarted the development of his own chess program, his Crafty clone dubbed Brause ran on several Internet Chess Server especially to examine the Halloween Gambit in the Four Knights Game. More recently, Steffen worked with Chrilly Donninger on maintaining the Sibyl Godot Finance Server.

=Forum Posts=
 * ASCII chess boards by Steffen Jakob, CCC, June 05, 2000
 * WAC #287 - 1.Qg4 by Steffen Jakob, CCC, January 04, 2002 » Win at Chess
 * WCCC: interesting position from Hossa - Ruy Lopez by Steffen A. Jakob, CCC, November 26, 2003 » WCCC 2003

=External Links=
 * Steffen A. Jakob
 * Steffen's Chess Page
 * Sibyl Godot Finance Server by Chrilly Donninger and Steffen A. Jakob
 * Steffen A. Jakob's ICGA Tournaments
 * Flickr: Fotostream von Steffen Jakob

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