Hans-Joachim Kraas

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Hans-Joachim Kraas, a German computer scientist, county league tournament chess player and former computer chess programmer. Along with Günther Schrüfer, Hans-Joachim Kraas is co-author of the chess programs Bobby, Bobby II, and Doctor?. He holds a Ph.D. from Technical University of Braunschweig with a thesis on parallelization of SSS*. Kraas is co-author of Das große Computerschachbuch (German), describing chess programming topics, and the didactic chess program Demoschach written in Basic.

=Photos & Games= Günther Schrüfer, Hans-Joachim Kraas, Ossi Weiner and Richard Lang WCCC 1986, round 4, Bobby - Mephisto X [Event "WCCC 1996] [Site "Cologne, Germany"] [Date "1986.06.14"] [Round "4"] [White "Bobby"] [Black "Mephisto X"] [Result "1-0"]

1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.c4 Nb6 5.exd6 exd6 6.Nc3 Be7 7.h3 O-O 8.Nf3 Nc6 9.Be2 Bf5 10.O-O Qd7 11.Bf4 Rae8 12.a4 Bf6 13.a5 Nc8 14.a6 b6 15.g4 Bxg4 16.hxg4 Qxg4+ 17.Bg3 Nxd4 18.Nxd4 Qxd4 19.Qc2 h6 20.Rfd1 Qc5 21.Nb5 Be5 22.Rd5 Qc6 23.Bxe5 Rxe5 24.Rxe5 dxe5 25.Bg4 Nd6 26.Nxa7 Qc5 27.Bd7 e4 28.Nb5 Nxb5 29.Bxb5 Qg5+ 30.Kf1 Qh4 31.Rd1 Qh1+ 32.Ke2 Qf3+ 33.Ke1 Qh1+ 34.Kd2 Qg2 35.Kc1 Qg6 36.Qb3 c6 37.Ba4 c5 38.Qg3 Ra8 39.Qxg6 fxg6 40.Bb5 g5 41.Rd7 h5 42.a7 e3 43.fxe3 Rf8 44.Bc6 h4 45.a8=Q Rxa8 46.Bxa8 h3 47.Rd5 1-0

=Selected Publications=
 * Rainer Bartel, Hans-Joachim Kraas, Günther Schrüfer (1985). Das große Computerschachbuch. Data Becker (German) from amazon.de
 * Hans-Joachim Kraas (1990). Zur Parallelisierung des SSS*-Algorithmus. Ph.D. thesis, TU Braunschweig

=External Links=
 * Hans-Joachim Kraas' ICGA Tournaments

=References=

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