Don Dailey, 1956 -2013

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Thank you and goodbye Mr. Dailey. Let's meet again.
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May his soul rest in peace....

He will be missed....
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My condolences to the family.

Rest in peace Don, you will be missed
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Goodbye Don. You were a great inspiration and your passion was contagious.

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The world is a lesser place now and death be not proud.

R.I.P.
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Today is 15 years and 2 days ago that I met Don. It was the first round of the DOCCC, where he participated with CilkChess. The event was held in Alphen aan den Rijn that year, a town near Leiden. In those days the tournament lasted two full weekends. The CilkChess team was on-site, which was really great. I lived in Eindhoven at the time and I remember missing the train to Leiden that morning. I had overslept because of a late night hacking session the night before, attempting to get some basic parallelism from my single cpu program (the idea was to use the shared hash table approach). After having missed the train I remember deciding to hop in a taxi to make it on time for the first round. The trip set me back about 350 guilders, ouch. The same trip would probably cost at least the same amount in Euros nowadays. I played on a university Sun computer, connecting remotely with a borrowed laptop. I made it just in time to get beaten by Don in the first round.



This is a picture of us after the game. From left to right: Vincent Diepeveen, Don Dailey, Aske Plaat, an unknown spectator (not MIT team member), and me.
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Don's approach to chess programming was already much more professional than most of us. The idea of testing by playing many automated games was not commonly done by amateurs. Don explained the difficulties he had interfacing with commercial programs. Nothing like UCI existed and all programs came with their own GUI. His solution to play them anyway: frame grab the display from the video memory and detect where the pieces are drawn. Send back your own moves by faking keyboard interrupts. Absolutely brilliant.

Don will be severely missed.
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A tremendous loss. RIP Don.
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See you in the New System Don. I didn't know you was a JW and my brother. I have been one for 27 years.
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Rest in peace Don. You'll always be remembered.
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RIP Don, and thanks for all your contributions. I enjoyed your chat on TCEC in your final days. You have left an enduring mark on computer chess, and thus you will be remembered in many ways, by many people. You had the respect of your peers, and of those like myself who are mere enthusiasts.

Good Journey to you.