Chrilly D.

Christian “Chrilly” Donninger was born in 1957 in Wels, Austria. He has a Ph.D. in Mathematical Statistics. Results of his Ph.D. were published in the top journal JASA (Journal of the American Statistical Association). Afterwards he worked for some years in the mathematics and computer department at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna. From 1989 to 1992 he was responsible for the development of life-support software at ESTEC (European Space Technology Centre) in Noordwijk/Netherlands. Since 1993 he is professional computer chess programmer. He was the main author of the FPGA based chess program Hydra. Hydra was initially developed (under the name Brutus) together with Ken Thompson (UNIX-‘father’). Hydra is considerable stronger than Deep Blue from IBM. It never lost to a human player. The “chess monster from UAE” was sponsored and developed by PAL group. Since 2007 he is chief scientist for the Sibyl financial project of PAL group. Chrilly’s main strength is the combination of excellent programming skills with profound mathematical knowledge. I have recently retired, but I have founded a charity fund to support people who came into financial troubles due to the exploding consumer- and especially energy prices. All income from further projectes will be donated to this fund. (From the CV). Further information about my person can be found on the net under: [login to view URL] or [login to view URL] Or simple google for "Chrilly Donninger".