Thomas Nitsche

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|| [[image:ThomasNitsche1986.JPG width="222" height="298"]] ||~   || **Thomas Nitsche**,
a German mathematician and computer scientist, former computer chess programmer, and along with [[Elmar Henne]] affiliated with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximic|Proximic]], a high performance contextual matching service.  As student at the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Freiburg|University of Freiburg]], Thomas Nitsche started computer chess programming in the early 70s. His program [[Orwell]] already played the first [[First GI Computer Chess Tournament]] 1975 in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dortmund|Dortmund]]. When Nitsche went to the [[Technical University of Munich]],  he started to write a parallel version of Orwell, called [[Parwell]], in collaboration with Elmar Henne and [[Wolfram Wolff]]. Henne and Nitsche were most famous for their mighty [[Mephisto (H)|Mephisto]] computers with the unique [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briquette|Briquette]] design, manufactured by [[Hegener & Glaser]]  <ref>[[http://www.computerwoche.de/heftarchiv/1979/36/1194002/|Ab Dezember neuer Mikroschachcomputer für 350 Mark:: Mephisto unterm Weihnachtsbaum]], October 7, 1979, [[Computerworld#Woche|Computerwoche]] 36/1979 (German)</ref>. ||
|| Thomas Nitsche <ref>[[László Lindner]], A SZÁMÍTÓGÉPES SAKK KÉPEKBEN című melléklete - The pictures of the Beginning of Chess Computers</ref> ||~   ||^   ||
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=Photos= 
|| [[image:glasgowwm_565x385.jpg width="500" height="345" link="http://www.thorstenczub.de/thomas.html"]] ||
|| Thomas Nitsche, [[Ossi Weiner]] and [[Lars Hjörth]], [[WMCCC 1984]] Glasgow <ref>[[http://www.thorstenczub.de/thomas.html|Was macht eigentlich Thomas Nitsche, der Mephisto III Programmierer?]] by [[Thorsten Czub]] (German)</ref><ref>Photo by [[Rainer Neuhäusler]], [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=287460&t=29458|Re: Who is that guy?]] by [[Rainer Neuhäusler]], [[CCC]], August 19, 2009</ref> ||
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|| [[image:Polgar_sisters_against_Mephisto.jpg width="500" height="374" link="http://www.ismenio.com/mephisto.html"]] ||
|| Thomas Nitsche operating Mephisto III versus [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Polgar|Susan]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Polgar|Sofia Polgar]] 1985 <ref>[[http://www.ismenio.com/mephisto.html|Hegener & Glaser (Mephisto)]] from [[http://www.ismenio.com/chess_computers.html|ChessComputers.org]]</ref> ||
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|| [[image:proximic.jpg width="500" height="284" link="http://maclalalaannex.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/proximic-new-contextual-search/"]] ||
|| Thomas Nitsche with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_executive_officer|CEO]] Philipp Pieper <ref>[[http://maclalalaannex.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/proximic-new-contextual-search/|Proximic - new contextual search]]</ref> ||

=Quotes=
Quote from //Proximic to Syndicate Ads For [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!|Yahoo]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay|eBay]]// <ref>[[http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/print.php/3721906|Proximic to Syndicate Ads For Yahoo, eBay]]</ref> :
|| {{The architect behind Proximic's contextual-matching engine is Thomas Nitsche, a German mathematician who won the world microcomputer chess title in 1984. Nitsche serves as Proximic's chief technical officer.

The computers Nitsche was turning into world-class chess champions in the 1980's had about 5 kilobytes of memory. He applied the same economical method of coding to Proximic's pattern-proximity technology, which boasts the ability to handle tens of millions of ads with only a fraction of the servers required in keyword-based systems with much smaller inventories. }} ||

=See also=
* [[Elmar Henne]]
* [[Hegener & Glaser]]
* [[Mephisto (H)]]
* [[Orwell]]
* [[Parwell]]
* [[Technical University of Munich]]

=Selected Publications= 
<ref>[[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf|ICGA Reference Database]] (pdf)</ref>
* Thomas Nitsche (**1982**). //A Learning Chess Program.// [[Advances in Computer Chess 3]]
* Thomas Nitsche (**1983**). //The Mephisto Concept. A "Humanlike" Thinking Chess Program//. [[Computer Chess Reports|Computer Chess Digest Annual 1983]]  
* Thomas Nitsche (**1984**). [[http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Das_Mephisto_3-Projekt|Das Mephisto 3-Projekt]], [[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schach-Echo|Schach-Echo]] 7/1984 (German)

=External Links= 
* [[http://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=407|Thomas Nitsche's ICGA Tournaments]]
* [[http://www.thomasnitsche.com/|Thomas Nitsche Projects]]
* [[http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Nitsche,_Thomas_%26_Henne,_Elmar|Nitsche, Thomas & Henne, Elmar]] from [[http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Hauptseite_En|Schachcomputer.info - Wiki]]
* [[http://www.podtech.net/home/4265/proximic-brings-new-contextual-search-and-advertising-platform|Proximic brings new contextual search and advertising platform]] from [[http://www.podtech.net/home/|PODTech home]]
* Proximic video by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Scoble|Robert Scoble]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube|YouTube]] Video
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