Claude Jarry, a Canadian computer scientist, and in the 70s and early 80s while affiliated with McGill University as student of Monroe Newborn [1], chess programmer. He is author of L'Excentrique, a chess program running on Amdahl mainframe computers [2], at the WCCC 1980 in Linz with the first round victory versus Chess 4.9, becoming strong fourth.
Claude Jarry at ACM 1979 [3]

External Links

• Claude Jarry's ICGA Tournaments

Forum Posts

• Re: Who is the better chess program author? by David Dory, CCC, December 13, 2001

References

1. ^ David Levy, Ben Mittman, Monroe Newborn (1980). 3rd World Computer Chess Championship. ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 3, reprinted in The Fourth World Computer Chess Championship (labeled 22nd ACM), pdf from The Computer History Museum, pdf from Danny Kopec
2. ^ Ben Mittman, Monroe Newborn (1980). Computer chess at ACM 79: the tournament and the man vs. man and machine match. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 23, Issue 1, pdf from The Computer History Museum
3. ^ Claude Jarry at ACM 1979, Photo by Monroe Newborn, from The Computer History Museum

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