Don Dailey
Don Dailey is an American computer game and chess researcher and programmer, and with long-term collaborator Larry Kaufman primary author of the world class chess engine Komodo. Don started chess programming in the 80s, and is author and co-author of multiple commercial as well as academic chess programs. He has been an active poster in computer chess forums and computer Go newsgroups [1].
Rex
Rex was Don Dailey's first chess program in the 80s, in collaboration with Sam Sloan and Larry Kaufman. It competed at various ACM North American Computer Chess Championships and World Computer Chess Championships [2]. Rex was further improved and marketed as RexChess.
Heuristic Software
In the early 90s Don Dailey started to work with chess master and computer chess programmer Julio Kaplan within his company Heuristic Software. The program they developed was called Heuristic Alpha, which later evolved into Socrates and the mass market entry Kasparov's Gambit.
MIT Connection
At the ACM 1993 computer chess tournament, which was won by Dailey's program Socrates II on an IBM PC ahead of Cray Blitz, he met Bradley Kuszmaul and Charles Leiserson from MIT competing with StarTech, and they asked him to help develop a new parallel chess program. Some time later when Heuristic went out of business, Don Dailey started to work part time for Leiserson at the lab at MIT on the new parallel program Star Socrates [3], beside his duty as official systems administrator. Star Socrates played a strong World Computer Chess Championship 1995 in Sha Tin, Hong Kong, finally losing the playoff versus Fritz [4]. Don continued his cooperation with Charles Leiserson on the massive parallel chess program Cilkchess, written in Cilk [5] [6].
Corel and Mini
Additionally, in the 90s, Don Dailey further worked with Larry Kaufman on the commercial mass market entry Corel Chess. Beside competing with Cilkchess, their serial chess program Mini [7] played the World Computer Chess Championship 1999 in Paderborn.
Doch and Komodo
After a break from computer chess and a few years focusing on other domains, Don's 2009/2010 chess program Doch as well as its successor Komodo [8] are again a joint effort in collaboration with Larry Kaufman [9]. In October 2013, Don Dailey announced the release of Komodo 6, but also bad news concerning the future status of Komodo due to his fatal illness of a acute form of Leukemia [10], and introduced Mark Lefler as new member of the Komodo team [11].
In November 2013, the developmental version of Komodo won round 3 of the Thoresen Chess Engines Competition [12].
External Links
- Don Dailey's ICGA Tournaments
- Komodo chess engine by Don Dailey and Larry Kaufman
- Don Daily | Chess Programming Wiki
References
- ^ The computer-go Archives
- ^ Rex (ICGA Tournaments)
- ^ Star Socrates (ICGA Tournaments)
- ^ Shatin 1995 - Chess - Round 6 - Game 1 (ICGA Tournaments)
- ^ Don Dailey, Charles E. Leiserson (2001). Using Cilk to Write Multiprocessor Chess Programs. Advances in Computer Games 9, Jaap van den Herik and Burkhard Monien (eds.) (2001) Computer Science Department, IKAT, Maastricht University, ISBN 90-6216-5761
- ^ Cilkchess (ICGA Tournaments)
- ^ Mini (ICGA Tournaments)
- ^ Komodo chess engine by Don Dailey and Larry Kaufman
- ^ Komodo - Rybka in Danger? by Larry Kaufman, Rybka Forum, January 21, 2010
- ^ Komodo release by Don Dailey, TalkChess.com, October 01, 2013
- ^ Re: Who is Don/Larry's new partner!? by Don Dailey, TalkChess.com, October 08, 2013
- ^ komodo wins stage 3 by Don Dailey, Talkchess.com, Novemver 04, 2013