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'''Donald Roy (Don) Dailey''', (March 10, 1956 - November 22, 2013)<br/>
was an American computer games and chess researcher and programmer, and along with long-term collaborator [[Larry Kaufman]] primary author of the world class chess engine [[Komodo]]. Don started chess programming in the 80s, and was author and co-author of multiple commercial as well as academical chess programs. He has been active poster in [[Don Dailey#ForumPosts|computer chess forums]] and [[Go|computer Go]] newsgroups <ref>[http://computer-go.org/pipermail/computer-go/ The computer-go Archives]</ref> , and was founding member of this [[Main Page|Homechess programming wiki]]. He was raised as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses Jehovah's Witness] and served in recent years as an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_structure_of_Jehovah%27s_Witnesses#Elders elder] in the church <ref>[http://komodochess.com/store/pages.php?cmsid=10 Komodo chess engine - Don Daily (1956 - 2013)]</ref>.
In October 2013, Don Dailey announced the release of Komodo 6 and also bad news concerning the future status of Komodo due to his fatal illness of a acute form of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leukemia Leukemia] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=49535 Komodo release] by [[Don Dailey]], [[CCC]], October 01, 2013</ref> , and introduced [[Mark Lefler]] as new member of the Komodo team <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=49623&start=23 Re: Who is Don/Larry's new partner!?] by [[Don Dailey]], [[CCC]], October 08, 2013</ref> . Don Dailey died November 22, 2013, in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke,_Virginia Roanoke, Virginia] at age 57, just about the same time that Komodo pulled ahead of [[Stockfish]] by winning game 2 in the [[TCEC Season 5#Superfinal|TCEC final]] <ref>[http://komodochess.com/store/pages.php?cmsid=10 Komodo chess engine - Don Daily (1956 - 2013)]</ref> <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50189 Don Dailey, 1956 -2013] by [[Larry Kaufman]], [[CCC]], November 23, 2013</ref> .
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