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Daja, an early chess program written in 1974 by Siegfried Jahn and Ludwig Zagler from Technical University of Munich as part of Jahn's Master's thesis. Co-author and thesis supervisor Ludwig Zagler continued the development on Daja, which evolved to Elsa, the program which participated at the WCCC 1977 in Toronto. Daja was written for a Telefunken TR 440 from Leibniz-Rechenzentrum. Since the computer was too busy otherwise, Daja was restricted to play test games during the night. Daja was runner up at the First GI Computer Chess Tournament 1975 in Dortmund after losing the playoff versus Tell.

=Publications=
 * Erstes Computer-Schachturnier der Gesellschaft für Informatik October 17, 1975, Computerwoche 42/1975 (German)
 * Schach: Die Zugmaschine Der Spiegel 16/1976, April 12, 1976 (German) pdf hosted by Hein Veldhuis

=External Links=
 * Daja (Daya) a character in Lessing's Nathan the Wise

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