Steffen Adam Jakob, an German chess player and computer scientist residing in Austria. Steffen holds a Masters degree from Darmstadt University of Technology in 1995, and was research assistant at Vienna University of Technology before he started his professional career as software developer in 1996 [1]. As computer chess programmer he is author of the Chess Engine Communication Protocol compatible chess engine Hossa, which competed at the WCCC 2003 in Graz [2]. Steffen already started chess programming in the 80s and made Hossa xboard compatible in 1998 [3]. Before he restarted the development of his own chess program, his Crafty clone dubbed Brause ran on several Internet Chess Server [4] especially to examine the Halloween Gambit in the Four Knights Game [5]. More recently, Steffen cooperates with Chrilly Donninger on maintaining the Sibyl Godot Finance Server [6].
Steffen A. Jakob [7]

Forum Posts

• ASCII chess boards by Steffen Jakob, CCC, June 05, 2000
• WAC #287 - 1.Qg4 by Steffen Jakob, CCC, January 04, 2002 » Win at Chess
• WCCC: interesting position from Hossa - Ruy Lopez by Steffen A. Jakob, CCC, November 26, 2003 » WCCC 2003
• Info: Honeckers Schachcomputer by Steffen A. Jakob, Schachcomputer.info Community, July 22, 2008 (German) ^[8]

External Links

• Sibyl Godot Finance Server by Chrilly Donninger and Steffen Jakob
  Sibyl Godot Finance Server - Steffen Jakob
• Steffen's Chess Page
• Steffen A. Jakob's ICGA Tournaments
• Flickr: Fotostream von Steffen Jakob

References

1. ^ Steffen's Curriculum Vitae
2. ^ Hossa's ICGA Tournaments
3. ^ Hossa - A Chess Program By Steffen A. Jakob
4. ^ Brause
5. ^ The Halloween-Attack in the Four Knight Game © 1996-1997 by Steffen A. Jakob
6. ^ Sibyl Godot Finance Server by Chrilly Donninger and Steffen Jakob
7. ^ Steffen's Gallery
8. ^ On March 6, 1990, Erich Honecker's own chess computer, a VEB Funkwerk SC 2 was seized, after his detention January 29, 1990

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