Steffen A. Jakob

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Steffen A. Jakob [1] Steffen Adam Jakob,

an German chess player and computer scientist residing in Austria. Steffen holds a Master’s 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 [2]. 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 [3]. Steffen already started chess programming in the 80s and made Hossa xboard compatible in 1998 [4]. Before he restarted the development of his own chess program, his Crafty clone dubbed Brause ran on several Internet Chess Server [5] especially to examine the Halloween Gambit in the Four Knights Game [6]. More recently, Steffen worked with Chrilly Donninger on maintaining the Sibyl Godot Finance Server [7].

• 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

External Links#

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

References#

1. ↑ Steffen’s Gallery
2. ↑ Steffen Jakob
3. ↑ Hossa’s ICGA Tournaments
4. ↑ Hossa - A Chess Program By Steffen A. Jakob
5. ↑ Brause
6. ↑ The Halloween-Attack in the Four Knight Game © 1996-1997 by Steffen A. Jakob
7. ↑ Sibyl Godot Finance Server by Chrilly Donninger and Steffen Jakob

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