Christopher Lutz

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[ Christopher Lutz [1] Christopher Lutz,

a German chess grandmaster, in 1995 and 2001 German chess champion, and as computer scientist at times affiliated with University of Hagen due to distance education [2]. He was book author and chess consultant of Hydra, and also had own experience in computer chess programming. Along with Michael Schmitt, Christopher Lutz is co-author of the chess program Paul, written in Turbo-Pascal, which played the WMCCC 1989 in Portorož [3]. The authors further received the Mephisto “Young Programmers” Scholarship of $2,500 for programmers under 19 years of age who have written the best chess program, sponsored by Hegener & Glaser [4]. Soon later, Christopher Lutz wrote a second chess program in Turbo C and Assembly, Bernie, which participated at the first IPCCC 1991 in Paderborn.

Photos#

37th Chess Olympiad, Turin 2006, Germany - India 1-3 [5] [6]

Arkadij Naiditsch - Viswanathan Anand ½-½

Artur Yussupow - Krishnan Sasikiran ½-½

Christopher Lutz - Pendyala Harikrishna 0-1

Alexander Graf - Surya Shekhar Ganguly 0-1

Selected Publications#

• Christopher Lutz (1996). Report on the Match 3-Hirn vs. Christopher Lutz. ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 2
• Christopher Lutz (1999, 2003). Endgame Secrets : How to Plan in the Endgame in Chess. Pavilion Books
• Lars Bremer (2005). Interview: GM Christopher Lutz. CSS Online, pdf (German)
• Ulf Lorenz, Christian Donninger, Muhammad N. Ali, Erdogan Günes, Christopher Lutz (2020). Hydra: Report and technical overview. ICGA Journal, Vol. 42, Nos. 2-3

External Links#

• Christopher Lutz from Wikipedia
• Lutz, Christopher FIDE Chess Profile
• Christopher Lutz | Person der Schachzeitgeschichte- German Chess Federation (German)
• The chess games of Christopher Lutz from hessgames.com
• Christopher Lutz chess games - 365Chess.com
• Christopher Lutz’ ICGA Tournaments
• Hydra Chess - Hydra Team ( Wayback Machine, October 23, 2007)

References#

1. ↑ Christopher Lutz at 34th Chess Olympiad, Istanbul, 2000, Photo by Adam Raoof, Christopher Lutz from Wikipedia
2. ↑ Lars Bremer (2005). Interview: GM Christopher Lutz. CSS Online, pdf (German)
3. ↑ Paul’s ICGA Tournaments
4. ↑ The Board of ICCA (1989). The Mephisto “Young Programmers” Scholarship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 4
5. ↑ Photo by Gerd Isenberg during WCCC 2006, also in Oval Lingotto, Turin, Italy
6. ↑ Olympiad R6: Holland defeats Russia, Armenia in the lead from ChessBase News, May 28, 2006

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