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**[[Home]] * [[People]] * Matthias Engelbach** || [[image:Engelbach.jpg link="http://radaris.de/p/Matthias/Engelbach/"]] ||~ || **Matthias Engelbach**, a German chess programmer, management consultant, and electrical engineer, in 1980 graduated from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundeswehr_University_Munich|Bundeswehr University Munich]], part of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundeswehr|German Armed Forces]] (Bundeswehr) supposed to offer civilian academic education for military officers. In 1978, Matthias Engelbach started to develop the chess program [[Schach]] in [[Algol]] running on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainframe_computer|mainframe computers]] <ref>[[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6c9575|The Fifteenth ACM Computer Chess Championship, San Francisco California, October 7-9, 1984]], [[http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1984_15th_NACCC/1984%20NACCC.062303012.sm.pdf|pdf]] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>. According to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chessgames.com|Chessgames.com]] description <ref>[[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=64934|The chess games of Schach 2 3]] from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chessgames.com|Chessgames.com]]</ref>, Schach **2.0** extended a 1970s version of [[Schach (US)|Schach]] by [[Rolf C. Smith]] and [[Franklin D. Ceruti]]. In the early 90s, along with co-author [[Thomas Kreitmair]], Schach **3.0** was a complete re-write in [[x86]] (486) [[Assembly|assembly language]] for [[IBM PC|PCs]], to become one of the fastest programs of its time <ref>[[http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=222098|Schach 3.0]] by [[Vincent Diepeveen]], [[CCC]], April 08, 2002</ref>. || || Matthias Engelbach <ref>[[http://radaris.de/p/Matthias/Engelbach/|Matthias Engelbach - Radaris]]</ref> ||~ ||^ || [[toc]] =Programs= * [[Schach|Schach 2.x and 3.0]] =External Links= * [[http://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=186|Matthias Engelbach's ICGA Tournaments]] * [[http://www.xing.com/profile/Matthias_Engelbach|Matthias Engelbach - Profile]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XING|XING]] =References= <references /> =What links here?= [[include page="Matthias Engelbach" component="backlinks" limit="40" ]] **[[People|Up one level]]**