Leo Dijksman (WBEC) deceased

[Werner]

I am very sad!
Rest in peace, Leo.

[Jamal Bubker]

Very sad news ...

Rest In Peace Leo Dijksman

[Gerd Isenberg]

Rest in peace, Leo.
My condolences to friends and family.

[F. Bluemers]

very sad to hear this.
my condoleances to the family

[Gurcan Uckardes]

We will miss him and his precious contributions to chess community. Rest in peace...

[fjpv]

A sad day for computer chess.
Leo was the reason that made me spark the interest in chess engines.
Leo's site for long time was the reference on chess engines.
Condolences to his family

Fernando JP Vasquez

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hi,

I am very sadly.

Leo Dijksmann worked many years on my older Winboard page I gave to Thomas Meyer after available Winboard engine 100 and after a short time Thomas gave it to Leo. At this time I gave Leo the rest of this page with all downloads, cc-calendar other things. The winboard site Volker Pittlik and myself created in Winboard times (Volker made later WB Forum only) was a very important work for the community. Houndrets of People (more thousands of people helps), same for Arena later. Around 1.500 - 2.000 different views daily the page had. Leo made things better I do in the past and works with energy on it ... again ... over a very long time.

Leo have fun with his own tourneys and with all the contacts to amateur programmers and of course in testing engines. I am sure he gave also moe as 1.000 error messages to amateur programmers. With Leo and Johan Havegheer (Ruffian test team) we won a tournament in Leiden, I believe 2003. Here also, Leo helps! All the time Leo helps.

I believe 1996 or 1997 I had spoken at first with Leo in personality in Leiden (The Netherlands). At this time Leo was a big fan from the work we do around Winboard and he gave the information that he would like to help us.

Help?
He do it alone much better and I visiting each day the news on his page. Each time I am up to date with engine news over so many years.

Latest contact to him I believe I had around 2006 or 2007.

For the community Leo Dijksman do more as a very big contribution only. He hold the contact to many amateurs, helps a lot to different topics. Leo was one of the first Winboarder ...

A very friendly person, each time, to each topic!
In cases of different opinions between Leo and myself we discuss on a very high level.

Really sad news. I hear about it today in the morning. A bad day for me (thinking over the day again and again on Leo) but I am sure that all which have contacts to him hold Leo in memory.

Sorry for my bad English in this case!

Best
Frank

[Charly]

It is a very sad new for the little word of computerchess. Leo was a pillar with his famous WBEC Ridderkerk.

May he rest in peace.

[Manza]

Bad news.

WBEC Ridderkerk was the first place where my engine was tested.

Rest in peace, Leo.

[Daniel Shawul]

I just read a very sad message on WinBoard forum, and I did not notice it was mentioned here. (Sorry if I somehow missed it.)

Leo Dijksman, former organizer of one of the highest quality engine competitions ever for many years, (WBEC Ridderkerk, or "WinBoard Engine Competition"), has finally succumbed to the terminal disease he was suffering from these past years.

Leo was the first computer chess guy i met online, like for many other chess programmers I suppose.
Rest in peace.