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'''Mikhail Vladimirovich Donskoy''', (Михаил Владимирович Донской, September 9, 1948 - January 13, 2009 <ref>[http://www.polit.ru/science/2009/01/14/in_memoriam.html Памяти Михаила Донского (1948-2009)] (Russian) - [http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.polit.ru%2Farticle%2F2009%2F01%2F14%2Fin_memoriam%2F He's always done exactly what was interesting to him] by [https://www.facebook.com/mikhail.blinkin Mikhail Blinkin], translated by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate Google Translate], [https://www.facebook.com/politru polit.ru], January 14, 2009</ref>)<br/>
was a Russian computer scientist and chess programmer. He studied at the [[Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics]], where his teachers include [[Alexander Kronrod]] and [[Georgy Adelson-Velsky]], and was also affiliated with the [[Moscow State University]] where he had to appeal professor [[Mikhail R. Shura-Bura]] with his programming skills <ref>[http://www.polit.ru/article/2008/08/20/programmist/ Михаил Донской: Жизненный цикл программиста - ПОЛИТ.РУ] (Russian) [[Mikhail Donskoy]] - [http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.polit.ru%2Farticle%2F2008%2F08%2F20%2Fprogrammist%2F The life cycle of a programmer] translated by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate Google Translate], [https://www.facebook.com/politru polit.ru] August 20, 2008</ref>. By 1971, Mikhail Donskoy joined with [[Vladimir Arlazarov]] and [[Anatoly Uskov]] to program the successor of the [[ITEP Chess Program]] on an [[ICL 4-70|ICL 4/70]] at the [[Institute of Control Sciences]], called [[Kaissa]] <ref>[http://www.computer-museum.ru/games/donchess.htm История компьютерных игр. Виртуальный компьютерный музей. Англо-Русский компьютерный словарь. Вычисления в докомпьютерную эпоху. Технологии. Компьютерные игры. История развития электросвязи. История развития ПО. История вычислительной техники в России и за рубежом] from the [[Russian Virtual Computer Museum]]</ref> , which became the first [[World Computer Chess Championship|World Computer Chess Champion]] in [[WCCC 1974|1974 in Stockholm]] <ref>[http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/kaissa.htm KAISSA] by [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=32393 Bill Wall]</ref> . The development of Kaissa was accompanied by [[Georgy Adelson-Velsky]], [[Vladimir Arlazarov]], [[Anatoly Uskov]] and [[Alexander Bitman]].
From 1982 Mikhail Donskoy was the chief system programmer for the INES [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database DBMS], the INES archive system original programmer. Since 1989 he was leader of the programmers group later growing into DISCo ('''D'''onskoy's '''I'''nteractive '''S'''oftware '''Co'''mpany). Mikhail Donskoy died at age 60.