In 1985, I started discussing the creation of such an app with the German tech writer Frederic Friedel, who was a serious aficionado of computer chess. He and a programmer acquaintance, Matthias Wüllenweber, founded ChessBase in Hamburg and released the ground-breaking program of the same name in January 1987. And with that, an ancient board game was pulled into the information age, at least if you had an Atari ST.
