About

PocketGrandmaster is the brainchild of Frank Schneider and Kai Skibbe.

Frank wrote his first chessprogram in 1986 and has been steadily improving it since then.

Kai had volunteered as a tester for some time before he became a core-developer in 1999, when they started rewriting the engine from scratch. The photo below was taken at the World Microcomputer Chess Championships 2001 in Maastricht and shows the game GromitChess against the previous Amateur Worldchampion ParSOS (Kai is on the left, Frank on the right).




Please see the AnacondaChess homepage for information about PocketGrandmaster's predecessors.

... with a little help from some friends ...

A big thank you goes to:

• Luke Wilson and Torben Lew Krackow, who did the layout, flash progamming and design of most of these pages.
  
  
• Werner Schüle provided important feedback on the early versions of PocketGrandmaster.
  
  
• Ingo Bauer contributed his time (and his ICC-account) to play testgames with PocketGrandmaster (and Gromit).
  
  
• Steve Mooradian, Fabrizio Fiandanese and Alan Bester for their help with some of the chess set graphics.
  
  
• the testers who helped to improve the engine for years. To name just a few: Christian Koch, Christian Liebert, Manfred Meiler, Frank Quisinsky, Torsten Schoop, Andreas Schwartmann, Djordje Vidanovic.
  
  
• and finally, to all users of PocketGrandmaster and Anaconda who provided feedback and motivation.
  

The chess set graphics are based on the beautiful chessfonts by Armando H. Marroquin and are used with the kind permission of the author.