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a German computer scientist and as computer chess programmer author of one of the first German chess programs, Schach MV 5,6. In 1971, Richter started the development on a [|Telefunken] TR-4 and TR 440 mainframe, continuing with a PDP-10. Schach MV 5,6, containing about 5000 Fortran statements, was subject of his diploma thesis, and apparently a SOMA approach without looking ahead more than one ply.  =Swap-off= David Levy, who was tournament director at the First GI Computer Chess Tournament in [|Dortmund], was indebted to Helmut Richter of [|Hamburg] for an accurate description of what Donald Michie called "swap-off". This is described incorrectly on pages 45-47 of //Chess and Computers//, the errors having been copied over from Michies's original article on the subject, published in 1966. Levy gives Richter's description of as Swap-off algorithm what is today usually referred as SEE in the May 1970 issue of Personal Computer World.
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=Selected Publications=
 * Helmut Richter (**1976**). //A chess program based on principles of human thought processes on playing chess//. Technical Report, University of Hamburg » Schach MV 5,6
 * Helmut Richter (**1976**). //The first German computer chess championship at Dortmund//. SIGART newsletter, Vol. 56, No. 2 » First GI Computer Chess Tournament

=External Links=
 * [|Erstes Computer-Schachturnier der Gesellschaft für Informatik] October 17, 1975, Computerwoche 42/1975 (German)
 * [|Sieger bleibt nüchtern: Tells Geschoß: Schachmatt], October 17, 1975, Computerwoche 42/1975 (German)

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