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David Kittinger [1] David (Dave) Kittinger,

an American electrical engineer and computer chess programmer, active since 1979 with his first program MyChess, which was quite successful during its ACM 1979 debut. Short after, David started to work for Novag in developing programs for dedicated chess computers, beside others Savant, Robot Adversary, Constellation and the mighty Super Constellation with its pre scan heuristics [2]. He later also wrote the chess engine for Chessmaster 2000 and was further involved in developing the Chessmaster 3000 [3] [4] [5]. In 1995 David Kittinger released his new DOS-Program WChess, also the engine of Sierra's Power Chess [6], market since 1996 as Windows 95 program [7], and of Interplay's USCF Chess in 1998 [8]. The further developed WChess 2000 was incorporated as game AI in Majestic Chess, released in 2003 by Sierra and Vivendi [9], and inside Sierra's Disney's Aladdin Chess Adventures in 2004 [10]. His long time collaboration with Novag still yields in new dedicated units from time to time, for instance Novag Citrine in 2006.

In 1995 during the WCCC 1995 in Hong Kong, David told Bruce Moreland about a move generation scheme, which was later called 0x88 [11] .

Photos

David Kittinger, WCCC 1983 [12]

Thompson and Kittinger at WCCC 1989 in Edmonton, Alberta [13]

See also

• 0x88 - Kittinger
• Chessmaster 2000
• Chessmaster 3000
• Harvard Cup 1994 - Video
• MyChess
• Novag
• WChess

Publications

• Harry Shershow (1981). The MyChess-CSC Confrontation at San Jose. Personal Computing, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 79 » MCC 1980, Interviews with David Kittinger and Mike Samole
• Dave Kittinger (1984). MyChess - Chess Playing Program. The Software Toolworks, pdf hosted by garlanger.com
• David Kittinger, Scott McDonald (1984). Report from the U.S. Open. Computer Chess Digest Annual 1984 pp. 15-33
• David Kittinger (1984). Report from Budapest. Computer Chess Digest Annual 1984 pp. 34
• David Kittinger (1985). 15th North American Computer Chess Championship. 1985 Computer Chess Digest Supplement
• The Editor (1994). David Kittinger, Professional Biography. Computer Chess Reports, Vol. 5, No. 1, p. 21

Forum Posts

• Hello all by Dave Kittinger, CCC, April 25, 2012

Re: Hello all by Dave Kittinger, CCC, April 25, 2012

• Consumer Computer Chess History Trivia by ChessChallenger, Hiarcs Forum, December 22, 2015

External Links

• David Kittinger's ICGA Tournaments
• David Kittinger - Interview by Bryan Whitby, 2008
• David Kittinger from MobyGames
• Meet the Authors by Ed Schröder
• Kittinger, David from Schachcomputer.info Wiki (German)

References

1. ↑ Echecs Electroniques pour Tous - Programmeurs (French)
2. ↑ PSH from Schachcomputer.info Wiki (German)
3. ↑ Re: Historical Chessmaster ? by John Merlino, CCC, April 24, 2005
4. ↑ Re: Historical Chessmaster ? by John Merlino, CCC, April 24, 2005
5. ↑ Re: Hello all by Dave Kittinger, CCC, April 25, 2012
6. ↑ Meet the Authors by Ed Schröder
7. ↑ Power Chess from Wikipedia
8. ↑ USCF Chess for Windows (1998) - MobyGames
9. ↑ Hoyle Majestic Chess Review - GameSpot.com
10. ↑ Disney's Aladdin Chess Adventures for Windows (2004) - MobyGames
11. ↑ 0x88 Move Generation by Bruce Moreland
12. ↑ László Lindner, A SZÁMÍTÓGÉPES SAKK KÉPEKBEN című melléklete - The pictures of the Beginning of Chess Computers
13. ↑ Thompson and Kittinger at 6th World Computer Chess Championship in Edmonton, Alberta, Gift of Monroe Newborn 1989 from The Computer History Museum

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