Claude Jarry

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Claude Jarry [1] Claude Jarry,

a Canadian computer scientist at Commission scolaire de Montréal, B.Sc. from McGill University in 1978. While affiliated with McGill as student of Monroe Newborn, he began chess programming in 1976 as a class project [2]. His program dubbed L’Excentrique ran on Amdahl mainframe computers [3], at the WCCC 1980 in Linz with the first round victory versus Chess 4.9, becoming strong fourth [4].

Forum Posts#

• Re: Who is the better chess program author? by David Dory, CCC, December 13, 2001

External Links#

• Claude Jarry | LinkedIn
• Claude Jarry’s ICGA Tournaments

References#

1. ↑ Claude Jarry | LinkedIn
2. ↑ David Levy, Monroe Newborn (1982, 1983). All About Chess and Computers. Springer, Postscript: 1978 – 80 and BELLE The World Champion
3. ↑ Ben Mittman, Monroe Newborn (1980). Computer chess at ACM 79: the tournament and the man vs. man and machine match. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 23, No. 1
4. ↑ David Levy, Ben Mittman, Monroe Newborn (1980). 3rd World Computer Chess Championship. ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 3

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