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'''[[Main Page|Home]] * [[People]] * Thomas Gaksch'''
'''Thomas Gaksch''',<br/>
a German software developer and chess programmer, who with age 16 <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=472667 Thanks again for this (useless) Discussion] by [[Thomas Gaksch]], [[CCC]], December 23, 2005</ref> already wrote his first chess program [[Hypra-Chess]] <ref>[http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=10139&d=18 Hypra-Chess from GB64.COM]</ref> in [[6502|6510]] [[Assembly|assembly]], published in 1987 as part of a [[Commodore 64]] game collection <ref>[http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/64%27er_Spielesammlung 64'er Spielesammlung - C64-Wiki]</ref> <ref>[http://www.spacious-mind.com/html/c64_emu_-_hypra-chess.html Commodore 64 Emulator - Computer Chess Game Collection - Hypra-Chess] from [[The Spacious Mind]]</ref>.
=Toga=
In 2004/2005, Thomas Gaksch used the [[Fruit|Fruit 2.0]] source code by [[Fabien Letouzey]], already under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GNU General Public License]], to make some tweaks and modifications, to distribute the executable under the name [[Toga]] to some testers, soon causing [[Clones:Category:Clone|clone]] suspicions and announcements <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=415992 Toga Clone] by Karl-Heinz Söntges, [[CCC]], March 09, 2005</ref>. Thomas Gaksch apologized immediately <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=416548 A statement from the "Author" of Toga II] by [[Thomas Gaksch]], [[CCC]], March 13, 2005</ref>, Toga and its successor Toga II with [[Parallel Search|multi-processor support]] were declared based on Fruit, fulfilling its license as published with sources under the GPL <ref>[http://alpha.uhasselt.be/Research/Algebra/Toga/linux_versions/ Posix ports of some recent version of Toga II]</ref>. As "official" Fruit derivative <ref>[http://arctrix.com/nas/chess/fruit/ Fruit Chess Engine by Fabien Letouzey]</ref> Toga II was used by [[Kai Himstedt]] as primary engine for his [[GridChess]] and [[Cluster Toga]] entities, competing the [[WCCC 2007]] and [[WCCC 2008]] with Fabien Letouzey and Thomas Gaksch mentioned as co-authors.
=Forum Posts=
