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[[FILE:DietrichPrinz.jpg|border|right|thumb|337px|link=http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-431e1a07d45c1&mainImage=1| [[Dietrich Prinz]] with [[Mate-in-two]] <ref>[[Dietrich Prinz|Dr. Dietrich Prinz]] loading chess program into a [[Ferranti Mark 1|Ferranti Mark I]] computer, 1955, Courtesy of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getty_Images Hulton-Deutsch Collection]/[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corbis CORBIS], [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/main.php?sec=thm-42b86c2029762&sel=thm-42b86c4252f72#%7CDietrich Dietrich Prinz] from [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/index.php History of Computer Chess], [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref> ]]
'''Dietrich G. Prinz''', (March 29, 1903 - December 1989)<br/>
was a German computer scientist and pioneer, who developed the first limited chess program in England [[Timeline#1951|1951]] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Copeland B. Jack Copeland], [http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/ucresearchprofile/researcher.aspx?researcherid=84367 Diane Proudfoot] ('''2011-2012'''). ''[http://www.rutherfordjournal.org/article040101.html Turing, Father of the Modern Computer]''. [http://www.rutherfordjournal.org/index.html The Rutherford Journal - The New Zealand Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology], Vol. 4 ยป with photos of [[Alan Turing]], [[John von Neumann]], [[Dietrich Prinz]], [[Christopher Strachey]], [[Jack Good]], [[Arthur Samuel]], [[Herbert Simon]], [[Allen Newell]], ...</ref>. The computer, a [[Ferranti Mark 1]], was not powerful enough to play a full game but could find the best move if it was only two moves away from [[Checkmate|checkmate]], known as the [[Mate-in-two]] problem.
Dietrich Prinz was educated at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt-Universit%C3%A4t_zu_Berlin Berlin University], where his teachers included [[Mathematician#MPlanck|Planck]] and [[Mathematician#AEinstein|Einstein]], and graduated with a Ph.D. in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy Philosophy]. As [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews Jewish] scientist, Prinz escaped [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany Nazi-Germany] in 1938 <ref>confirmed by [http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/daniela-derbyshire/4/282/336 Daniela Derbyshire], daughter of Dietrich Prinz, January 2012</ref> and settled in England <ref>[http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/Computer-Chess.htm History of Computer Chess and Programmer Dietrich Prinz] by [http://inventors.about.com/bio/Mary-Bellis-496.htm Mary Bellis], [http://www.about.com/ About.com]</ref>. In collaboration with the [[University of Manchester]], Prinz worked as a research scientist at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti Ferranti Ltd] in 1947, and became involved in the firm's work with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_computers Manchester Mark] series of computers. His interest in computer chess was likely influenced by his colleague [[Alan Turing]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/main.php?sec=thm-42b86c2029762&sel=thm-42b86c4252f72#%7CDietrich Dietrich Prinz] from [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/index.php History of Computer Chess], [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref> <ref>[http://www.alanturing.net/turing_archive/pages/Reference%20Articles/what_is_AI/What%20is%20AI04.html Early AI Programs from AlanTuring.net] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Copeland B. Jack Copeland]</ref>, and like [[Donald Michie|Michie]], [[Christopher Strachey|Strachey]], and others, by an important article published in 1950 by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Davies Donald Davies], ''A Theory of Chess and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe Noughts and Crosses]'' <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Davies Donald Davies] ('''1950'''). ''A Theory of Chess and Noughts and Crosses''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_News Science News], 16, 40</ref> <ref>''The First Working Chess Programme'', Chapter 16 Chess, Introduction, in [[Alan Turing]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Copeland B. Jack Copeland] (editor) ('''2004'''). ''The Essential Turing, Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life plus The Secrets of Enigma''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University_Press Oxford University Press], [http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Turing-Philosophy-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/0198250800/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1324659595&sr=1-1 amazon], [http://books.google.com/books?id=RSkxnKlv1D4C&lpg=PP882&ots=VOWmiIm_lD&dq=Turochamp%2C%20chess&pg=PP881#v=onepage&q&f=true google books]</ref> .
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[[FILE:HeiseNimrodInGermany.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|557px|link=http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Vor-50-Jahren-fing-alles-an-das-erste-Elektronenhirn-in-Deutschland-51722.html]]
Germany, 1951, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod_%28computing%29 Nimrod] <ref>[http://www.goodeveca.net/nimrod/ Welcome to... NIMROD!]</ref> versus [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Erhard Ludwig Erhard], Prinz and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Adenauer Adenauer] watching <ref>[http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Was-war-Was-wird-Ein-Sommernachtsraetseltraum--/meldung/75806/#frage3 Heise News], June 23, 2006, (German) Question 3: Who is the man with the glasses?</ref> <ref>[http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Was-wirklich-wahr-war-Ein-entschluesselter-Sommernachtsraetseltraum--/meldung/75860 Heise News], July 24, 2006, (German) Answer: Dietrich Prinz</ref> <ref>[http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Vor-50-Jahren-fing-alles-an-das-erste-Elektronenhirn-in-Deutschland--/meldung/21590/ Heise News], October 06, 2001, (German) The second photo shows Prinz left of Minister of Economics and later Chancellor of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germany West Germany], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Erhard Ludwig Erhard], playing a game of [[Nim]] against the special purpose machine [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod_%28computing%29 Nimrod], Photo with Courtesy of the [[Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum]]</ref>
=See also=
* [[Ferranti Mark 1]]
* [[History|History of Computer Chess]]
* [[Mate-in-two]]
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://archives.li.man.ac.uk/ead/html/gb133nahc-pri-p1.shtml Papers of Dr Dietrich G. Prinz - ELGAR: Electronic Gateway to Archives at Rylands] [http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/ The John Rylands University Library] [[University of Manchester|The University of Manchester]]</ref> <ref>[http://www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk/downloads/media,38917,en.pdf UK National Archive for the History of Computing - Draft Catalogue Version 1.0], August 15, 2005 (pdf)</ref>
* [[Dietrich Prinz]] ('''1944'''). ''Contributions to the Theory of Automatic Controllers and Followers''. Journal of Scientific Instruments
* [[Dietrich Prinz]] ('''1951'''). ''Introduction to Programming on the Manchester Electronic Digital Computer''.
* [[Dietrich Prinz]] ('''1952'''). ''Robot Chess''. Research, Vol. 6, reprinted 1988 in [[Computer Chess Compendium]]
* [[Dietrich Prinz]] ('''1953'''). ''The Use of General Computers for Solving Logical Problems'', in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._V._Bowden,_Baron_Bowden Bertram Vivian Bowden] (editor), [http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/cgi-bin/sitewise.pl?act=det&p=10719 Faster Than Thought], a symposium on digital computing machines
* [[Alex Bell]] ('''1972'''). ''[http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/literature/books/gamesplaying/overview.htm Games Playing with Computers]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_%26_Unwin Allen & Unwin], ISBN-13: 978-0080212227
=External Links=
* [http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/literature/books/gamesplaying/p005.htm#index21 Chess programs: Prinz] from [[Alex Bell]] ('''1972'''). ''[http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/literature/books/gamesplaying/overview.htm Games Playing with Computers]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_%26_Unwin Allen & Unwin], ISBN-13: 978-0080212227
* [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/main.php?sec=thm-42b86c2029762&sel=thm-42b86c4252f72#%7CDietrich Dietrich Prinz] from [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/index.php History of Computer Chess], [[The Computer History Museum]]
* [http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/Computer-Chess.htm History of Computer Chess and Programmer Dietrich Prinz] by [http://inventors.about.com/bio/Mary-Bellis-496.htm Mary Bellis], [http://www.about.com/ About.com]
* [http://www.alanturing.net/turing_archive/pages/Reference%20Articles/what_is_AI/What%20is%20AI04.html Early AI Programs from AlanTuring.net] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Copeland B. Jack Copeland]
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatlife/7835493/Brilliant-and-barking-mad-an-interview-with-expat-scientist-Dr-Jon-Prinz.html "Brilliant and barking mad": an interview with expat scientist Dr Jon Prinz], [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ telegraph.co.uk], June 21, 2010
* [http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/print-page.php?402 2012 The Alan Turing Year - TCAC Germany Subcommittee]
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[[FILE:DietrichPrinz.jpg|border|right|thumb|337px|link=http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-431e1a07d45c1&mainImage=1| [[Dietrich Prinz]] with [[Mate-in-two]] <ref>[[Dietrich Prinz|Dr. Dietrich Prinz]] loading chess program into a [[Ferranti Mark 1|Ferranti Mark I]] computer, 1955, Courtesy of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getty_Images Hulton-Deutsch Collection]/[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corbis CORBIS], [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/main.php?sec=thm-42b86c2029762&sel=thm-42b86c4252f72#%7CDietrich Dietrich Prinz] from [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/index.php History of Computer Chess], [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref> ]]
'''Dietrich G. Prinz''', (March 29, 1903 - December 1989)<br/>
was a German computer scientist and pioneer, who developed the first limited chess program in England [[Timeline#1951|1951]] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Copeland B. Jack Copeland], [http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/ucresearchprofile/researcher.aspx?researcherid=84367 Diane Proudfoot] ('''2011-2012'''). ''[http://www.rutherfordjournal.org/article040101.html Turing, Father of the Modern Computer]''. [http://www.rutherfordjournal.org/index.html The Rutherford Journal - The New Zealand Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology], Vol. 4 ยป with photos of [[Alan Turing]], [[John von Neumann]], [[Dietrich Prinz]], [[Christopher Strachey]], [[Jack Good]], [[Arthur Samuel]], [[Herbert Simon]], [[Allen Newell]], ...</ref>. The computer, a [[Ferranti Mark 1]], was not powerful enough to play a full game but could find the best move if it was only two moves away from [[Checkmate|checkmate]], known as the [[Mate-in-two]] problem.
Dietrich Prinz was educated at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt-Universit%C3%A4t_zu_Berlin Berlin University], where his teachers included [[Mathematician#MPlanck|Planck]] and [[Mathematician#AEinstein|Einstein]], and graduated with a Ph.D. in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy Philosophy]. As [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews Jewish] scientist, Prinz escaped [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany Nazi-Germany] in 1938 <ref>confirmed by [http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/daniela-derbyshire/4/282/336 Daniela Derbyshire], daughter of Dietrich Prinz, January 2012</ref> and settled in England <ref>[http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/Computer-Chess.htm History of Computer Chess and Programmer Dietrich Prinz] by [http://inventors.about.com/bio/Mary-Bellis-496.htm Mary Bellis], [http://www.about.com/ About.com]</ref>. In collaboration with the [[University of Manchester]], Prinz worked as a research scientist at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti Ferranti Ltd] in 1947, and became involved in the firm's work with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_computers Manchester Mark] series of computers. His interest in computer chess was likely influenced by his colleague [[Alan Turing]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/main.php?sec=thm-42b86c2029762&sel=thm-42b86c4252f72#%7CDietrich Dietrich Prinz] from [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/index.php History of Computer Chess], [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref> <ref>[http://www.alanturing.net/turing_archive/pages/Reference%20Articles/what_is_AI/What%20is%20AI04.html Early AI Programs from AlanTuring.net] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Copeland B. Jack Copeland]</ref>, and like [[Donald Michie|Michie]], [[Christopher Strachey|Strachey]], and others, by an important article published in 1950 by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Davies Donald Davies], ''A Theory of Chess and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe Noughts and Crosses]'' <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Davies Donald Davies] ('''1950'''). ''A Theory of Chess and Noughts and Crosses''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_News Science News], 16, 40</ref> <ref>''The First Working Chess Programme'', Chapter 16 Chess, Introduction, in [[Alan Turing]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Copeland B. Jack Copeland] (editor) ('''2004'''). ''The Essential Turing, Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life plus The Secrets of Enigma''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University_Press Oxford University Press], [http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Turing-Philosophy-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/0198250800/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1324659595&sr=1-1 amazon], [http://books.google.com/books?id=RSkxnKlv1D4C&lpg=PP882&ots=VOWmiIm_lD&dq=Turochamp%2C%20chess&pg=PP881#v=onepage&q&f=true google books]</ref> .
=Photos=
[[FILE:HeiseNimrodInGermany.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|557px|link=http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Vor-50-Jahren-fing-alles-an-das-erste-Elektronenhirn-in-Deutschland-51722.html]]
Germany, 1951, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod_%28computing%29 Nimrod] <ref>[http://www.goodeveca.net/nimrod/ Welcome to... NIMROD!]</ref> versus [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Erhard Ludwig Erhard], Prinz and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Adenauer Adenauer] watching <ref>[http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Was-war-Was-wird-Ein-Sommernachtsraetseltraum--/meldung/75806/#frage3 Heise News], June 23, 2006, (German) Question 3: Who is the man with the glasses?</ref> <ref>[http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Was-wirklich-wahr-war-Ein-entschluesselter-Sommernachtsraetseltraum--/meldung/75860 Heise News], July 24, 2006, (German) Answer: Dietrich Prinz</ref> <ref>[http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Vor-50-Jahren-fing-alles-an-das-erste-Elektronenhirn-in-Deutschland--/meldung/21590/ Heise News], October 06, 2001, (German) The second photo shows Prinz left of Minister of Economics and later Chancellor of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germany West Germany], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Erhard Ludwig Erhard], playing a game of [[Nim]] against the special purpose machine [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod_%28computing%29 Nimrod], Photo with Courtesy of the [[Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum]]</ref>
=See also=
* [[Ferranti Mark 1]]
* [[History|History of Computer Chess]]
* [[Mate-in-two]]
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://archives.li.man.ac.uk/ead/html/gb133nahc-pri-p1.shtml Papers of Dr Dietrich G. Prinz - ELGAR: Electronic Gateway to Archives at Rylands] [http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/ The John Rylands University Library] [[University of Manchester|The University of Manchester]]</ref> <ref>[http://www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk/downloads/media,38917,en.pdf UK National Archive for the History of Computing - Draft Catalogue Version 1.0], August 15, 2005 (pdf)</ref>
* [[Dietrich Prinz]] ('''1944'''). ''Contributions to the Theory of Automatic Controllers and Followers''. Journal of Scientific Instruments
* [[Dietrich Prinz]] ('''1951'''). ''Introduction to Programming on the Manchester Electronic Digital Computer''.
* [[Dietrich Prinz]] ('''1952'''). ''Robot Chess''. Research, Vol. 6, reprinted 1988 in [[Computer Chess Compendium]]
* [[Dietrich Prinz]] ('''1953'''). ''The Use of General Computers for Solving Logical Problems'', in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._V._Bowden,_Baron_Bowden Bertram Vivian Bowden] (editor), [http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/cgi-bin/sitewise.pl?act=det&p=10719 Faster Than Thought], a symposium on digital computing machines
* [[Alex Bell]] ('''1972'''). ''[http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/literature/books/gamesplaying/overview.htm Games Playing with Computers]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_%26_Unwin Allen & Unwin], ISBN-13: 978-0080212227
=External Links=
* [http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/literature/books/gamesplaying/p005.htm#index21 Chess programs: Prinz] from [[Alex Bell]] ('''1972'''). ''[http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/literature/books/gamesplaying/overview.htm Games Playing with Computers]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_%26_Unwin Allen & Unwin], ISBN-13: 978-0080212227
* [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/main.php?sec=thm-42b86c2029762&sel=thm-42b86c4252f72#%7CDietrich Dietrich Prinz] from [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/index.php History of Computer Chess], [[The Computer History Museum]]
* [http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/Computer-Chess.htm History of Computer Chess and Programmer Dietrich Prinz] by [http://inventors.about.com/bio/Mary-Bellis-496.htm Mary Bellis], [http://www.about.com/ About.com]
* [http://www.alanturing.net/turing_archive/pages/Reference%20Articles/what_is_AI/What%20is%20AI04.html Early AI Programs from AlanTuring.net] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Copeland B. Jack Copeland]
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatlife/7835493/Brilliant-and-barking-mad-an-interview-with-expat-scientist-Dr-Jon-Prinz.html "Brilliant and barking mad": an interview with expat scientist Dr Jon Prinz], [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ telegraph.co.uk], June 21, 2010
* [http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/print-page.php?402 2012 The Alan Turing Year - TCAC Germany Subcommittee]
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