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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.

=Photos=
<ref>Photos of Mikhail Donskoy, gifts by [[Monroe Newborn]], hosted by [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref> :
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Misha Donskoy at the [[WCCC 1974|World Computer Chess Championship]] in Stockholm 1974
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[[Alan Baisley]] (left) faces Mikhail Donskoy, Round 2 [[WCCC 1974]], [[Tech|Tech 2]] vs [[Kaissa]]
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[[Vladimir Arlazarov|Arlazarov]] and Donskoy at the [[WCCC 1980|3rd World Computer Chess Championship]] 1980 in Linz
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[[Alexander Reznitskiy|A. Reznitskiy]], [[Boris Stilman|B. Stilman]], [[Mikhail Donskoy|M. Donskoy]], [[Mikhail Botvinnik|M. Botvinnik]], [[Monroe Newborn|Monty & Amy Newborn]] <ref>[[Tony Marsland]], [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]] ('''1981'''). ''A brighter future for Soviet computer chess?'' [[ICGA Journal#4_1|ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 1]], [http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~tony/OldPapers/Marsland-Newborn-1981.pdf pdf]</ref> <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbd70434 Monroe Newborn and Soviet computer chess developers in Moscow], Gift of [[Monroe Newborn]], 1980</ref> <ref>[http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5153 Computer chess pioneer Mikhail Donskoy passes on] from [[ChessBase|ChessBase News]], January 16, 2009</ref> <ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/browse_frm/thread/e9f5b809a7ac0952 Kaissa & Botvinik] by [[Shay Bushinsky]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], October 16, 1997</ref>
[[FILE:Lazarov_Thompson_Donskoy_KAISSA_team.Montreal.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px|link=http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbd75253]]
[[Vladimir Arlazarov]], [[Ken Thompson]] and Mikhail Donskoy 1992

=Quotes=
{{Quote Donskoy on Hashing}}
=See also=
* [[Georgy Adelson-Velsky#AVLTrees|Georgy Adelson-Velsky and Mikhail Donskoy]] at [[University of Waterloo]]
* [[Kaissa#HistoryofKaissa|History of Kaissa]]

=Selected Publications=
==1975 ...==
* [[Georgy Adelson-Velsky]], [[Vladimir Arlazarov]], [[Mikhail Donskoy]] ('''1975'''). ''Some Methods of Controlling the Tree Search in Chess Programs''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 361-371. ISSN 0004-3702. Reprinted ('''1988''') in [[Computer Chess Compendium]] pp. 129-135. <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=19469 Method of Analogies??] by Bruce Cleaver, [[CCC]], May 29, 1998</ref>
* [[Georgy Adelson-Velsky]], [[Vladimir Arlazarov]], [[Mikhail Donskoy]] ('''1977'''). ''On the Structure of an Important Class of Exhaustive Problems and Methods of Search Reduction for them''. [[Advances in Computer Chess 1]]
* [[Georgy Adelson-Velsky]], [[Vladimir Arlazarov]], [[Mikhail Donskoy]] ('''1979'''). ''Algorithms of adaptive search''. [http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~shm/MI/mi9.html Machine Intelligence 9] (eds. [[Jean Hayes Michie]], [[Donald Michie]] and L.I. Mikulich), pp. 373-384. Ellis Horwood, Chichester.
==1980 ...==
* [[Mikhail Donskoy]] ('''1980'''). ''From Russia with Games''. [[Personal Computing#4_5|Personal Computing, Vol. 4, No. 5]], pp. 77 » [[Kaissa]]
* [[Georgy Adelson-Velsky|Г.М. Адельсон-Вельский]], [[Vladimir Arlazarov|В.Л. Арлазаров]], [[Alexander Bitman|А.Р. Битман]], [[Mikhail Donskoy|М.В. Донской]] ('''1983'''). Машина играет в шахматы, [http://genes1s.net/files/kaissa.pdf pdf] (book with detailed explanations of Kaissa algorithms, language: Russian)
* [[Georgy Adelson-Velsky]], [[Vladimir Arlazarov]], [[Mikhail Donskoy]] ('''1988'''). ''Algorithms for Games''. Springer-Verlag, New York, NY. ISBN 3-540-96629-3. [http://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Games-Georgy-M-Adelson-Velsky/dp/0387966293 amazon.com]
* [[Mikhail Donskoy]], [[Jonathan Schaeffer]] ('''1988'''). ''Report on the 1st Soviet Computer-Chess Championship or re-awakening a sleeping giant''. [[ICGA Journal#11_23|ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, Nos. 2/3]] » [[First Soviet Computer-Chess Championship 1988]]
* [[Mikhail Donskoy]], [[Jonathan Schaeffer]] ('''1989'''). ''Perspectives on Falling from Grace''. [[WCCC 1989#Workshop|Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search]], [http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~jonathan/publications/ai_publications/grace.pdf pdf], revised version in [[Computers, Chess, and Cognition]]
==1990 ...==
* [[Mikhail Donskoy]], [[Jonathan Schaeffer]] ('''1990'''). ''Perspectives on Falling from Grace''. [[Computers, Chess, and Cognition]]
* [[Mikhail Donskoy]] ('''1990'''). ''Fundamental Concepts in Search''. [[ICGA Journal#13_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 3]]
* [[Mikhail Donskoy]], [[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Bob Herschberg]] ('''1990'''). ''Finessing in Games''. [[ICGA Journal#13_4|ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 4]]
* [[Mikhail Donskoy]] ('''1991'''). ''Fundamental Concepts in Search''. [[Advances in Computer Chess 6]]
==2000 ...==
* [[Mikhail Donskoy]] ('''2001'''). ''How the Computer-Chess Methods Help to Build Better User Interfaces.'' [[Advances in Computer Games 9]]
* [[David Levy]] ('''2009'''). ''Mikhail Donskoy - An Obituary''. [[ICGA Journal#32_1|ICGA Journal, Vol. 32, No. 1]]

=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Donskoy Mikhail Donskoy from Wikipedia]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=56 Mikhail Donskoy's ICGA Tournaments]
* [http://adamant1.fromru.com/kaissa.html "Каисса" - Историю программы рассказывает один из ее создателей Михаил Донской] - [http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fadamant1.fromru.com%2Fkaissa.html Kaissa] by [[Mikhail Donskoy]], translated by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate Google Translate]
* [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
* [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]]
* [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
* [https://en.chessbase.com/post/computer-che-pioneer-mikhail-donskoy-paes-on Computer chess pioneer Mikhail Donskoy passes on] from [[ChessBase|ChessBase News]], January 16, 2009

=References=
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