Erdogan Günes

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Erdogan (Erdo) Günes, a Turkish computer chess expert and opening book author residing in Germany. Erdo cooked opening books for various programs, notably at the WCCC 2010 in Kanazawa even as team member of two participating programs, Rondo by Zach Wegner and Anthony Cozzie as well as Fridolin by Christian Sommerfeld. Further programs supported and operated by Erdogan were Deep Sjeng by Gian-Carlo Pascutto , HIARCS by Mark Uniacke, Goliath by Michael Borgstädt, Hydra by Chrilly Donninger, Zappa by Anthony Cozzie, Falcon by Eli David , and Komodo by Don Dailey, Mark Lefler, and Larry Kaufman. His tremendous gambling and operating skills, specially in Blitz, was a warrant for top places, titles and Blitz titles at World and World Microcomputer Chess Championships. Most recently, Erdo operated Komodo during the WCCC 2016, WCCC 2017, WCCC 2018 and WCCC 2019 winning four times the Shannon Trophy, not to mention WCCC Blitz titles and winning three times the World Chess Software Championship WCSC 2016, WCSC 2018 and WCSC 2019 with Komodo.

=Döner Gambit= Erdogan is famous for his formidable opening ideas and preparation. Well known is the Döner Gambit, a Blackmar-Diemer like opening, extensively analyzed by Günes, which usually occurs as following: 1. d4 d5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f3 with later e4 to encourage black to capture e4 and f3. Christopher Lutz proved Döner Gambit quite harmless, if black exchanges queens and give back material.

=Photos=

IPCCC 2004
Hydra team 2004: Ulf Lorenz, Erdogan Günes and Chrilly Donninger, IPCCC 2004

WCCC 2017
WCCC 2017, Erdo with Shannon Trophy representing Komodo

=Selected Publications=
 * 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=
 * Erdogan Günes' ICGA Tournaments
 * Erdogan Günes | Facebook
 * Waldkraiburg: Erdogan Günes nachträglich zum Computerschach-Weltmeister gekürt | Region Waldkraiburg, innsalzach24, October 08, 2012 (German)
 * Computer-Schach-Checker Erdogan Günes aus Waldkraiburg hat erneut zwei von drei Weltmeistertitel geholt. | Waldkraiburg by Raphael Weiß, innsalzach24, July 12, 2017 (German)
 * Waldkraiburg/Stockholm: Erdogan Günes will in Stockholm alle drei ComputerschachWM-Titel holen. | Waldkraiburg by Raphael Weiß, innsalzach24, July 10, 2018 (German)
 * Stockholm/Waldkraiburg: Bei der Computerschach-WM hatte Erdogan Günes erneut technische Probleme. | Stockholm by Raphael Weiß, innsalzach24, July 14, 2018 (German)
 * Stockholm/Waldkraiburg: Die Betonvariante soll Erdogan Günes das Triple bei der Computerschach-WM bringen. | Stockholm by Raphael Weiß, innsalzach24, July 18, 2018 (German)
 * Stockholm/Waldkraiburg: "Jetzt bin ich der Gejagte" - Erdogan Günes holt das Triple im Computerschach. | Stockholm by Raphael Weiß, innsalzach24, July 20, 2018 (German)
 * Ein Waldkraiburger in Stockholm - Erdogan Günes holt das Triple bei der Computerschach-WM, YouTube Video

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