Leo Dijksman (WBEC) deceased

[MikeB]

Rest in peace my friend.

[Dann Corbit]

Very sad to hear that.
Leo was a big inspiration for me.

[Dan Honeycutt]

Sad news.

Send your engine to Leo after testing for every misbehavior you could think of and within a few days he'd tell you what you missed.

Best
Dan H.

[El Gringo]

i am very sadly too Frank,

We met him In leiden at the Dutch Computer Championship in 2003 when we were operating Ruffian.

Hi,

I am very sadly.

Leo Dijksmann worked many years on my older Winboard page I gave to Thomas Meyer after available Winboard engine 100 and after a short time Thomas gave it to Leo. At this time I gave Leo the rest of this page with all downloads, cc-calendar other things. The winboard site Volker Pittlik and myself created in Winboard times (Volker made later WB Forum only) was a very important work for the community. Houndrets of People (more thousands of people helps), same for Arena later. Around 1.500 - 2.000 different views daily the page had. Leo made things better I do in the past and works with energy on it ... again ... over a very long time.

Leo have fun with his own tourneys and with all the contacts to amateur programmers and of course in testing engines. I am sure he gave also moe as 1.000 error messages to amateur programmers. With Leo and Johan Havegheer (Ruffian test team) we won a tournament in Leiden, I believe 2003. Here also, Leo helps! All the time Leo helps.

I believe 1996 or 1997 I had spoken at first with Leo in personality in Leiden (The Netherlands). At this time Leo was a big fan from the work we do around Winboard and he gave the information that he would like to help us.

Help?
He do it alone much better and I visiting each day the news on his page. Each time I am up to date with engine news over so many years.

Latest contact to him I believe I had around 2006 or 2007.

For the community Leo Dijksman do more as a very big contribution only. He hold the contact to many amateurs, helps a lot to different topics. Leo was one of the first Winboarder ...

A very friendly person, each time, to each topic!
In cases of different opinions between Leo and myself we discuss on a very high level.

Really sad news. I hear about it today in the morning. A bad day for me (thinking over the day again and again on Leo) but I am sure that all which have contacts to him hold Leo in memory.

Sorry for my bad English in this case!

Best
Frank

[Albert Silver]

Really sad. Rest in peace.

[syzygy]

Maybe it is worth noting that the original announcement was posted in early March of this year.

[Dayffd]

Sad news. R.I.P.

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hi Johan,

yes, it was really a nice time.
Leo was very proud (you too) to hold the cup in the hand.

I am thinking the right persons hold it after all that what they do ... not for Ruffian ... for computerchesss (of course for Ruffian too).

Best
Frank

[fern]

What a bad couple of years these has been!
Too many friends of all us has gone.
Now this one...
as the others, he will be missed.
Good dreams, prince...

Fern

[CRoberson]

Sad news. I hope he is in a better place. Leo was always happy to hear of a new version and quick to advertise it. Very nice person for me to interact with. Condolences to his family.