Gerhard Wolf
Gerhard Wolf,
an Austrian computer scientist and early chess programmer, in the 70s affiliated with Graz University of Technology and its computer center Rechenzentrum Graz.
He is author of the chess program David which played the ACM 1971 in Chicago, and along with Fritz Königshofer, co-author of the chess program Frantz, competing the 1st World Computer Chess Championship, 1974 in Stockholm [1] [2].
Selected Publications
- Gerhard Wolf (1971). Näherungsalgorithmen zur Minimierung logischer Schaltkreise. Volume 63 of Rechenzentrum Graz. (German)
- Gerhard Wolf (1973). Implementation of a dynamic tree searching algorithm in a chess programme. Proceedings of the ACM annual conference