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was a German computer scientist and pioneer, who developed the first limited chess program in England 1951. The computer, a Ferranti Mark 1, was not powerful enough to play a full game but could find the best move if it was only two moves away from checkmate, known as the Mate-in-two problem.
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 * [[image:DietrichPrinz.jpg width="337" height="282" link="http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-431e1a07d45c1&mainImage=1"]] ||~  || **Dietrich G. Prinz**, (March 29, 1903 - December 1989)

Dietrich Prinz was educated at [|Berlin University], where his teachers included Planck and Einstein, and graduated with a Ph.D. in [|Philosophy]. As [|Jewish] scientist, Prinz escaped [|Nazi-Germany] in 1938 and settled in England. In collaboration with the University of Manchester, Prinz worked as a research scientist at [|Ferranti Ltd] in 1947, and became involved in the firm's work with the [|Manchester Mark] series of computers. His interest in computer chess was likely influenced by his colleague Alan Turing, and like Michie, Strachey, and others, by an important article published in 1950 by [|Donald Davies], //A Theory of Chess and [|Noughts and Crosses]//. || toc =Photos= =See also=
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 * Germany, 1951, [|Nimrod] versus [|Ludwig Erhard], Prinz and [|Adenauer] watching  ||
 * Ferranti Mark 1
 * History of Computer Chess
 * Mate-in-two

=Selected Publications= =External Links=
 * Dietrich Prinz (**1944**). //Contributions to the Theory of Automatic Controllers and Followers//. Journal of Scientific Instruments
 * Dietrich Prinz (**1951**). //Introduction to Programming on the Manchester Electronic Digital Computer//.
 * Dietrich Prinz (**1952**). //Robot Chess//. Research, Vol. 6, reprinted 1988 in Computer Chess Compendium
 * Dietrich Prinz (**1953**). //The Use of General Computers for Solving Logical Problems//, in [|Bertram Vivian Bowden] (editor), [|Faster Than Thought], a symposium on digital computing machines
 * Alex Bell (**1972**). //[|Games Playing with Computers]//. [|Allen & Unwin], ISBN-13: 978-0080212227
 * [|Chess programs: Prinz] from Alex Bell (**1972**). //[|Games Playing with Computers]//. [|Allen & Unwin], ISBN-13: 978-0080212227
 * [|Dietrich Prinz] from [|History of Computer Chess], The Computer History Museum
 * [|History of Computer Chess and Programmer Dietrich Prinz] by [|Mary Bellis], [|About.com]
 * [|Early AI Programs from AlanTuring.net] by [|B. Jack Copeland]
 * [|"Brilliant and barking mad": an interview with expat scientist Dr Jon Prinz], [|telegraph.co.uk], June 21, 2010
 * [|2012 The Alan Turing Year - TCAC Germany Subcommittee]

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