Don Dailey
{{short description|American researcher and game programmer}}{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2013}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Don Dailey
| image =WolffDailey1992.JPG
| alt =
| caption = Dailey (right) in 1992
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1956|3|10|mf=yes}}
| birth_place = Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2013|11|22|1956|3|10|mf=yes}}
| death_place = Roanoke, Virginia, U.S.
| occupation = Game programmer
}}
Don Dailey (March 10, 1956 – November 22, 2013) was an American researcher in computer chess and a game programmer.{{NoteTag|Not to be confused with Alabama journalist Don Dailey who hosted Capitol Journal on Alabama Public Television for 24 years.}} Along with collaborator Larry Kaufman, he was the author of the chess engine Komodo. Dailey started chess programming in the 1980s, and was the author and co-author of multiple commercial as well as academic chess programs. He has been an active poster in computer chess forums and computer Go newsgroups.{{Cite web |url=http://computer-go.org/pipermail/computer-go/ |title=The computer-go Archives |access-date=November 18, 2013 |archive-date=June 16, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140616190103/http://computer-go.org/pipermail/computer-go/ |url-status=dead }} He was raised as a Jehovah's Witness and served in recent years as an elder in the church of Roanoke.Kaufman, Larry. [http://komodochess.com/store/pages.php?cmsid=10 Remembering Don Dailey], komodochess.com; accessed November 30, 2013
In October 2013, Dailey announced the release of Komodo 6, but also news concerning the future status of Komodo due to his fatal illness of an acute form of leukemia,[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=49535 Komodo release] by Don Dailey, TalkChess.com, October 1, 2013 and introduced Mark Lefler as new member of the Komodo team.[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=49623&start=23 Re: Who is Don/Larry's new partner!?] by Don Dailey, TalkChess.com, October 8, 2013 Dailey died of leukemia at the age of 57 on November 22, 2013.[http://komodochess.com/store/pages.php?cmsid=10 Don Daily (1956 -2013) Goodbye by Larry Kaufman, Komodochess.com]
''Rex''
Rex was Dailey's first chess program in the 1980s, in collaboration with Sam Sloan and Larry Kaufman. It competed at various ACM North American Computer Chess Championships and World Computer Chess Championships.{{Cite web |url=http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/program.php?id=360 |title=Rex (ICGA Tournaments) |access-date=November 18, 2013 |archive-date=September 6, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140906024134/http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/program.php?id=360 |url-status=dead }} Rex was improved further and marketed as RexChess.Larry Kaufman (1990). The Rexchess Story. Computer Chess Reports Quarterly. Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 8, [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/computer_chess_reports.html Chess Computer UK by Mike Watters]
Heuristic software
In the early 1990s, Dailey started to work with chess master and computer chess programmer Julio Kaplan within his company Heuristic Software. The program they developed was called Heuristic Alpha, which later evolved into Socrates, Socrates II and the mass market entry Kasparov's Gambit.Larry Kaufman (1993). PC-Software. Computer Chess Reports, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 8-9, [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/computer_chess_reports.html Chess Computer UK by Mike Watters]
MIT connection
At the ACM 1993 computer chess tournament, which was won by Dailey's program Socrates II on an IBM PC ahead of Cray Blitz, he met Bradley Kuszmaul and Charles Leiserson from MIT competing with StarTech, and they asked him to help develop a new parallel chess program. Some time later when Heuristic went out of business, he began working part-time for Leiserson at the lab at MIT on the new parallel program Star Socrates,{{Cite web |url=http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/program.php?id=181 |title=Star Socrates (ICGA Tournaments) |access-date=November 18, 2013 |archive-date=September 6, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140906014646/http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/program.php?id=181 |url-status=dead }} beside his duty as official systems administrator. Star Socrates played a strong World Computer Chess Championship 1995 in Shatin, Hong Kong, finally losing the playoff versus Fritz.{{Cite web |url=http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/round.php?tournament=29&round=6&id=1 |title=Shatin 1995 - Chess - Round 6 - Game 1 (ICGA Tournaments) |access-date=November 18, 2013 |archive-date=December 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203012431/http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/round.php?tournament=29&round=6&id=1 |url-status=dead }} Dailey continued his cooperation with Charles Leiserson on the massively parallel chess program Cilkchess, written in Cilk.Don Dailey, Charles E. Leiserson (2001). Using Cilk to Write Multiprocessor Chess Programs. Advances in Computer Games 9, Jaap van den Herik and Burkhard Monien (eds.) (2001) Computer Science Department, IKAT, Maastricht University; {{ISBN|90-6216-5761}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/program.php?id=56 |title=Cilkchess (ICGA Tournaments) |access-date=November 18, 2013 |archive-date=September 6, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140906023435/http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/program.php?id=56 |url-status=dead }}
''Corel'' and ''Mini''
Additionally, in the 1990s, Dailey further worked with Larry Kaufman on the commercial mass market entry Corel Chess. Beside competing with Cilkchess, their serial chess program Mini{{Cite web |url=http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/program.php?id=91 |title=Mini (ICGA Tournaments) |access-date=November 18, 2013 |archive-date=September 6, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140906100623/http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/program.php?id=91 |url-status=dead }} played the World Computer Chess Championship 1999 in Paderborn.
''Doch'' and Komodo
After a break from computer chess and a few years focusing on other domains, Dailey's 2009/2010 chess program Doch as well as its successor Komodo[http://komodochess.com Komodo chess engine by Don Dailey and Larry Kaufman] are again a joint effort in collaboration with Larry Kaufman.[http://rybkaforum.net/cgi-bin/rybkaforum/topic_show.pl?tid=15105 Komodo - Rybka in Danger?] by Larry Kaufman, Rybka Forum, January 21, 2010 In Fall 2013, the developmental version of Komodo won stage 3,[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=49937 komodo wins stage 3] by Don Dailey, Talkchess.com, November 4, 2013 and already after Don's death, the final of the Thoresen Chess Engines Competition, the latter in a 48-game match versus stage 4 winner Stockfish by a margin of 25–23.[http://tcec.chessdom.com/superfinal.php nTCEC - Superfinal] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831124102/http://tcec.chessdom.com/superfinal.php |date=August 31, 2013 }} Finalist Stockfish DD, dedicated to Don Dailey, was officially released during the final,[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50275 Stockfish DD: a new official release] by Marco Costalba, Talkchess.com, November 29, 2013 the commercial Komodo-TCEC a few days later.[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50300 Komodo-TCEC] by Larry Kaufman, Talkchess.com; retrieved December 1, 2013[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50324 Komodo TCEC released] by Larry Kaufman, Talkchess.com; December 4, 2013
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External links
- [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=36 Don Dailey's ICGA Tournaments]
- [https://www.chessprogramming.org/Don_Dailey Don Dailey: Chessprogramming wiki]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20131213033648/http://www.schach-welt.de/interviews/don-dailey Computerschach, Interview with Don Dailey] by Frank Quisinsky, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131227204636/http://schachwelt.ch/index.asp Schachwelt], December 18–20, 2009
- [http://www.tcec-chess.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=107 Interview with Don Dailey (Komodo programmer)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211183124/http://www.tcec-chess.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=107 |date=December 11, 2013 }}, nTCEC interview by Martin Thoresen, April 7, 2013
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