Dieter Steinwender

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Dieter Steinwender, a German computer scientist, computer chess expert, writer, journalist, salesperson, chess player (anti computer) and programmer. During his undergraduate at the University of Hamburg, motivated and supported by his advisor Frieder Schwenkel, Dieter Steinwender collaborated with his fellows Alexander Reinefeld, Dirk Hauschildt and Manfred Allers in developing the chess programs Murks for an Interdata M85 (1980) and later (1981-83) MicroMurks for the Motorola 68000 µ-Prozessor.

In 1982/83, along with Frieder Schwenkel, Dieter Steinwender played a correspondence chess game versus Belle. In 1984, Dieter Steinwender published a didactic Basic program in Computerschach und Spiele, and along with Chrilly Donninger, the Basic program Minimax.

=CSS= Dieter Steinwender is editor in chief of the German computer chess magazine Computerschach und Spiele (CSS). Until 2005 it was a paper magazine with co-publisher and ChessBase co-founder Frederic Friedel. Today the magazine is available online with Steinwender as sole publisher and editor in chief and shareholder of Steinwender EDV-Beratung GbR with the associated CSS-Shop. The close relationships between CSS and CSS-Shop and ChessBase, was criticized as cause of possible conflict of interests related to independent journalism and test-reports of computer chess products. =AEGON 96= Dieter Steinwender participated at the Aegon 1996 human-machine championship, and demonstrated some Anti-Computerchess, especially in the game against Shredder. [Event "11th AEGON man-mach"] [Site "The Hague NED"] [Date "1996.04.15"] [Round "04"] [White "Dieter Steinwender"] [Black "SHREDDER"] [Result "1-0"]

1.d4 d5 2.Qd3 e6 3.f4 c5 4.e3 cxd4 5.exd4 Nf6 6.Nd2 Nc6 7.c3 Bd6 8.Qf3 Bd7 9.Bd3 O-O 10.Ne2 Rb8 11.Rg1 b5 12.a3 a5 13.g4 b4 14.Rg3 bxc3 15.bxc3 Qc7 16.g5 Ne8 17.Bxh7+ 1-0

=See also=
 * WCCC 1986 Video

=Selected Publications=
 * Dieter Steinwender (1984). Bewertungsfunktionen in Schachprogrammen. Diplomarbeit (Bericht Nr. 109). Department of Computer Science, University of Hamburg
 * Frederic Friedel, Dieter Steinwender (1993). Results and selected games of the 12th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 4 » WMCCC 1993
 * Dieter Steinwender, Frederic Friedel (1995). Schach am PC, Bits und Bytes im königlichen Spiel. Markt und Technik, ISBN: 978-3-87791-522-6 (German)

=Forum Posts=
 * qBASIC Chess program - from 1984 by Dieter Steinwender by Mike Byrne, CCC, February 23, 2003
 * Re: Another qBASIC Chess program -Dieter Steinwender (in english+comment by Tony Worsman, CCC, February 24, 2003

=External Links=
 * Dieter Steinwender's ICGA Tournaments
 * The chess games of Dieter Steinwender from chessgames.com

=References=

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