Ulrich Thiemonds

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Uli Thiemonds [1] Ulrich (Uli) Thiemonds,

a German computer scientist, chess player [2] and chess youth coach with chess club SG Porz [3]. In 1999, at the University of Bonn, he defended his Diplom degree in computer science with the thesis on a rule-based program for chess endgames. He introduced the historic approach of El Ajedrecista by Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, mentions the rule-based approach by Wilhelm Barth from Vienna University of Technology, as well the work of Grit Lachmann from Chemnitz University of Technology in Prolog, and further elaborated on Endgame Tablebases.

Selected Publications

Ulrich Thiemonds (1999). Ein regelbasiertes Spielprogramm für Schachendspiele. University of Bonn, Diplom thesis, pdf (German)