Christian Donninger (* 1958 in is a Austrian chess computer programmer.

Life

Dr. Christian Donninger, called Chrilly, was born 1958 in upper Austria and studied mathematics at the University of Vienna. It locked the study with a doctorate in statistics. Afterwards it works some years on the Viennese Institut for higher studies and with Siemens, until it made itself 1993 independent as chess computer programmers. Since 1999 he lives in Altmelon in Lower Austria.

Its programs Nimzo (last version 8, 2001) and pig dog (2000) were driven out by the company ChessBase. While Nimzo was aligned to as high a play strength as possible and so that in competition to point programs such as Fritz and Shredder it stood pig dog was remarkable by the fact that by original animation and acoustic output as well as special Handicapstufen also less good chess players were addressed. Donningers subsequent project Brutus was only briefly financed by ChessBase, since no commercial usability was seen.

At the end of of 2003 was asked Donninger by a sheikh from Abu Dhabi whether he wanted to develop a chess program, which is able to defeat the human world champion on basis pre-working carried out with Brutus. Donninger accepted the offer and developed together with the Paderborner computer scientist Ulf Lorenz, who Cologne large master Christopher Lutz as chess advisors and the Pakistani Ali Muhammad Nasir as a project manager a program named Hydra, which obtained 2005 a spectacularly high match victory against the English world class player Michael Adam, at this time the number 7 of the world rank list.

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  Christian Donninger Christian Donninger , also known as "Chrilly", is the main programmer of the chess computer Hydra, which is likely the strongest.


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