Thomas Gaksch

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Thomas Gaksch, a German software developer and chess programmer, who with age 16 already wrote his first chess program Hypra-Chess in 6510 assembly, published in 1987 as part of a Commodore 64 game collection.

=Toga= In 2004/2005, Thomas Gaksch used the Fruit 2.0 source code by Fabien Letouzey, already under the GNU General Public License, to make some tweaks and modifications, to distribute the executable under the name Toga to some testers, soon causing clone suspicions and announcements. Thomas Gaksch apologized immediately, Toga and its successor Toga II with multi-processor support were declared based on Fruit, fulfilling its license as published with sources under the GPL. As "official" Fruit derivative Toga II was used by Kai Himstedt as primary engine for his GridChess and Cluster Toga entities, competing the WCCC 2007 and WCCC 2008 with Fabien Letouzey and Thomas Gaksch mentioned as co-authors.

=Forum Posts=
 * Toga test tournament 2005 - impressively result - games by Karl-Heinz Söntges, CCC, February 11, 2005
 * Toga Clone by Karl-Heinz Söntges, CCC, March 09, 2005
 * A statement from the "Author" of Toga II by Thomas Gaksch, CCC, March 13, 2005
 * Statement from the "Author" of Toga by Thomas Gaksch, CCC, March 17, 2005
 * Re: Appeal by Thomas Gaksch, CCC, May 11, 2005
 * Has Thomas Gaksch become co-author of Fruit? by Gabor Szots, CCC, June 18, 2005
 * Re: What makes Fruit and Fruit-Toga so strong? by Thomas Gaksch, CCC, June 20, 2005
 * Thanks again for this (useless) Discussion by Thomas Gaksch, CCC, December 23, 2005
 * Question to Daniel Shawul by Thomas Gaksch, Winboard Forum, May 30, 2006
 * Searching for a development team for Toga based on Fruit by Thomas Gaksch, Winboard Forum, September 09, 2006

=External Links=
 * Hypra-Chess from GB64.COM
 * 64'er Spielesammlung - C64-Wiki
 * Thomas Gaksch's ICGA Tournaments

=References=

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