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'''[[Main Page|Home]] * [[People]] * Jan Derksen'''
'''Jan Derksen''', (1942 - August 2018 <ref>[http://www.chessed.nl/jan-derksen-1942-2018/ Jan Derksen (1942-2018)]</ref>)<br/>was a Dutch computer scientist, chess player and chess programmer. While affiliated with [[Delft University of Technology|Delft Institute of Technology]] in the early 80s, he co-authored the chess program [[Pion]].
Along with [[Harry Nefkens]] and [[Jaap van den Herik]], he represented Pion at the [[ACM 1982]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas Dallas], and was involved in porting the program to ran on a [[VAX|VAX 11/780]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purdue_University Purdue University].
