Mikhail+Donskoy

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. 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 at the Institute of Control Sciences, called Kaissa, which became the first World Computer Chess Champion in 1974 in Stockholm. The development of Kaissa was accompanied by Georgy Adelson-Velsky, Vladimir Arlazarov, Anatoly Uskov and Alexander Bitman.
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 * [[image:donskoy01.jpg link="http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5153"]] ||~  || **Mikhail Vladimirovich Donskoy**, (Михаил Владимирович Донской, September 9, 1948 - January 13, 2009 )

From 1982 Mikhail Donskoy was the chief system programmer for the INES [|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. || toc =Photos= : code [Event "WCCC 1974"] [Site "Stockholm, Sweden"] [Date "1974.08.06"] [Round "2"] [White "Tech 2"] [Black "Kaissa"] [Result "0-1"]
 * Mikhail Donskoy ||~  ||^   ||
 * [[image:Donskoy.WCCC_1974.jpg width="560" link="http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbd8d8f4"]] ||
 * Misha Donskoy at the World Computer Chess Championship in Stockholm 1974 ||
 * [[image:Kaissa_Baisley_Donskoy.jpg width="560" link="http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbd92710"]] ||
 * Alan Baisley (left) faces Mikhail Donskoy, Round 2 WCCC 1974, Tech 2 vs Kaissa ||
 * Alan Baisley (left) faces Mikhail Donskoy, Round 2 WCCC 1974, Tech 2 vs Kaissa ||

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.Bb5+ Bd7 4.Bc4 Bg4 5.f3 Bc8 6.Nc3 Nbd7 7.Ne4 Ne5 8.Nxf6+ exf6 9.Qe2 Qe7 10.Bb5+ c6 11.dxc6 bxc6 12.Ba4 Ba6 13.Qe4 O-O-O 14.Ne2 Bxe2 15.Kxe2 Qd7 16.d3 Re8 17.Be3 Bd6 18.c3 Bb8 19.Bc2 Ng6 20.Qb4 Nf4+ 21.Kf2 Rxe3 22.Kxe3 Nd5+ 23.Ke2 Nxb4 24.cxb4 Qd4 25.Rab1 Re8+ 26.Kf1 Qe3 27.d4 Qe2+ 28.Kg1 Qxc2 29.Kf1 Qxb1+ 30.Kf2 Qxb2+ 31.Kf1 Qe2+ 32.Kg1 Qd1+ 33.Kf2 Re2# code
 * [[image:Arlazarov_Donskoy_WCCC_1980.jpg width="560" link="http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbdc3450"]] ||
 * Arlazarov and Donskoy at the 3rd World Computer Chess Championship 1980 in Linz ||
 * [[image:ReznitkiyStilmanDonskoyBotvinnikNewborn.jpg width="560" link="http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5153"]] ||
 * A. Reznitskiy, B. Stilman, M. Donskoy, M. Botvinnik, Monty & Amy Newborn   ||
 * [[image:Lazarov_Thompson_Donskoy_KAISSA_team.Montreal.jpg width="560" link="http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbd75253"]] ||
 * Vladimir Arlazarov, Ken Thompson and Mikhail Donskoy 1992 ||
 * [[image:Lazarov_Thompson_Donskoy_KAISSA_team.Montreal.jpg width="560" link="http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbd75253"]] ||
 * Vladimir Arlazarov, Ken Thompson and Mikhail Donskoy 1992 ||

=Quotes= Quote from Mikhail Donskoy's //life cycle of a programmer// : include page="Quote Donskoy" =See also=
 * Georgy Adelson-Velsky and Mikhail Donskoy at University of Waterloo
 * History of Kaissa

=Selected Publications=

1975 ...

 * Georgy Adelson-Velsky, Vladimir Arlazarov, Mikhail Donskoy (**1975**). //Some Methods of Controlling the Tree Search in Chess Programs//. [|Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 361-371. ISSN 0004-3702. Reprinted (**1988**) in Computer Chess Compendium pp. 129-135.
 * 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//. [|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, Vol. 4, No. 5, pp. 77 » Kaissa
 * Г.М. Адельсон-Вельский, В.Л. Арлазаров, А.Р. Битман, М.В. Донской (**1983**). Машина играет в шахматы, [|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. [|amazon.com]
 * Mikhail Donskoy, Jonathan Schaeffer (**1988**). //Report on the 1st Soviet Computer-Chess Championship or re-awakening a sleeping giant//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, Nos. 2/3 » First Soviet Computer-Chess Championship 1988
 * Mikhail Donskoy, Jonathan Schaeffer (**1989**). //Perspectives on Falling from Grace//. Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search, [|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//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 3
 * Mikhail Donskoy, Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg (**1990**). //Finessing in Games//. 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, Vol. 32, No. 1

=External Links=
 * [|Mikhail Donskoy from Wikipedia]
 * [|Mikhail Donskoy's ICGA Tournaments]
 * [|"Каисса" - Историю программы рассказывает один из ее создателей Михаил Донской] - [|Kaissa] by Mikhail Donskoy, translated by [|Google Translate]
 * [|Михаил Донской: Жизненный цикл программиста - ПОЛИТ.РУ] (Russian) Mikhail Donskoy - [|The life cycle of a programmer] translated by [|Google Translate], [|polit.ru] August 20, 2008
 * [|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
 * [|Памяти Михаила Донского (1948-2009)] (Russian) - [|He's always done exactly what was interesting to him] by [|Mikhail Blinkin], translated by [|Google Translate], [|polit.ru], January 14, 2009
 * [|Computer chess pioneer Mikhail Donskoy passes on] from ChessBase News, January 16, 2009

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