Markus Gille and Dark Thought

[OliverBr]

Does anyone here remember to them? I think Markus Gille was the first one who programmed 64bit bitboard on DEC Alpha.
I met this guy once personally in 1999.

Do anyone know what happened to him and his Chess Programm?

See here, too:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/heinz/dt/

[Dann Corbit]

Does anyone here remember to them? I think Markus Gille was the first one who programmed 64bit bitboard on DEC Alpha.
I met this guy once personally in 1999.

Do anyone know what happened to him and his Chess Programm?

See here, too:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/heinz/dt/

His chess program was co-developed with 2 others (I have Ernst Heinz's excellent book "Scalable Search in Computer Chess: Algorithmic Enhancements and Experiments at High Search Depths" ):


This search may turn up something:
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[Gerd Isenberg]

Does anyone here remember to them? I think Markus Gille was the first one who programmed 64bit bitboard on DEC Alpha.
I met this guy once personally in 1999.

Do anyone know what happened to him and his Chess Programm?

See here, too:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/heinz/dt/

Peter W. Gillgasch was the primary author of a predecessor of Dark Thought . He joined Ernst A. Heinz and Markus Gille at the university of Karlruhe to develop Dark Though. As far as I know Markus was the chess expert and responsible for some Eval stuff and the opening book.
Gillgasch the man behind the rotated bitboards and a bit-twiddling expert (you'll find some posts in the rgcc archives, discussing rotated bb with Bob Hyatt). Gillgasch first left the team (1997?). Heinz was later active in the ICGA some time around 2003. After his MIT times, Heinz is Associate Professor of Computer Science, http://it.i-u.de/schools/heinz/ International University in Bruchsaal. No idea what happend to the other members, likely they all retired from computer chess, after finishing their studies.

[mclane]

yes. gillgasch and gille. very nice people.
i remember markus was always very funny and we had lots of fun during the AEGON tournaments.

a pity he is not "active" anymore.

i will never forget when CSTAL made a draw against dark thought.

[bob]

Does anyone here remember to them? I think Markus Gille was the first one who programmed 64bit bitboard on DEC Alpha.
I met this guy once personally in 1999.

Do anyone know what happened to him and his Chess Programm?

See here, too:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/heinz/dt/

First, he wasn't the first. Crafty ran on an alpha in 1995. We tested Cray Blitz on one somewhere around 1993. Ernst Heinz was the primary mover behind dark thought. Not sure where he is today...