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Siegfried Jahn,
a German computer scientist, during the mid 70s affiliated with the Technical University of Munich. Along with his advisor Ludwig Zagler, Siegfried Jahn co-authored the early chess program Daja, which was part of his Master's thesis ^[1]. Daja ran on a TR 440 of the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum ^[2], and was runner up at the First GI Computer Chess Tournament 1975 in Dortmund ^[3].

References

1. ^ Erstes Computer-Schachturnier der Gesellschaft für Informatik October 17, 1975, Computerwoche 42/1975 (German)
2. ^ Schach: Die Zugmaschine Der Spiegel 16/1976, April 12, 1976 (German)
3. ^ Monroe Newborn (1979). Recent Progress in Computer Chess. Advances in Computers, Vol. 18, pp. 59-117. Academic Press, New York, N.Y. Reprinted (1988) in Computer Games I (ed. David Levy), pp. 226-324, Springer

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