Poll for Computer Chess Recognition

[Howard E]

A few names in no particular order for a chess poll on Computer Chess Recognition.
More names for each category, deletions or corrections welcomed.
How many names per category for a poll? Current list is incomplete but will be edited before the poll is up.


Pioneers in programming (Claude Shannon, Alan Turing, Robert Hyatt, ...)
Innovaters in Programming ( Robert Hyatt, Frans Morsch, Ken Thompson, ...)
Dedicated Unit (Richard Lang, Ed Schroder, Johan de Koning, ...)
PC Programmers (Marty Hirsch, Richard Lang, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, ...)
Book Authors ( Jeroen Noomen, Mchess Book?, ...)
Testers (Tony Hedlund, Graham Banks, ...)
Teachers (Robert Hyatt, Ed Schroder, Ernst Heinz, ....)
Human vs Computer ( Ed Schroder, Amir Ban, Frans Morch, Feng-hsiung Hsu, ....)
Magazine/Internet Writers (Larry Kaufman, Al Tomalty, Eric Hallsworth, Sarah Bird, ....)
Testing Opening Suites (Jeroen Noomen, Albert Silver, John Nunn, ....)
Testing Positional Suites (Swaminithan, Dann Corbit, Nolot, Larry Kaufman....)
Elo Dominace (Vasik Rahlich, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Frans Morch, ....)
Tournament Dominance ( Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Richard Lang, Amir Ban, ...)
Tournament Organizers ( Peter Skinner, Dutch Organizers?, Aegon? ...)
Chess Graphic User Interface ( People behind Chessbase, Arena, Winboard, ...)
Other Recognition Categories ? (benefactors - perhaps the creators of this CCC site?, ...

Also, for ELO and tournament dominace should we have a pre/post 1980 category for these?

[Graham Banks]

As far as testers go, there are many who deserve mention far more than I do - in no particular order - Guenther Simon, Leo Dijksman, Olivier Deville just to name a few (and there are many many more).
Remember that there are many more who probably prefer to remain out of the limelight, but have been doing valuable beta-testing for years.

This is a tricky area to give credit to some in, yet not others.

Cheers,
Graham.

[Rubinus]

MChess book - Sandro Necchi (probably book author Shredder)

[Steve B]

Dedicated Unit (Richard Lang, Ed Schroder, Johan de Koning, ...)


Well Lang certainly deserves top billing for the dedicated units due to his long dominanace in the field

De Koning is not so clear to me
his engines have appeared in only 4 dedicated units:
Saitek Risc 2500
Mephisto Montreux
Tasc R30
Tasc R40

However his Tasc Engines (the King Version 2.2 and 2.5)were the strongest engines ever included in a dedicated computer until the recent release of the Phoenix Resurrection dedicated units in 2005...

Toss Up Regards
Steve

[Rubinus]

Teachers: Donninger and Steinwender (Szach am PC, MiniMax)
Testers: Dijksman (WBEC), Sedat, ...
Book Authors: Sedat, Spitaleri, Schnapp, ...

[swami]

Teachers: Donninger and Steinwender (Szach am PC, MiniMax)
Testers: Dijksman (WBEC), Sedat, ...
Book Authors: Sedat, Spitaleri, Schnapp, ...

Also, CEGT Testers.

Many opening book authors. Wael, Pavel, Dann, Sedat, Audy, Salvo, Noomen...

Opening Suite: Sedat top 200 etc

Teachers: Tom Kerrigan, Tord Romstad, Bruce Moreland, Fabien Letouzey. (for their educational source codes)