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Before founding the Gothic Chess Federation, Ed Trice had been the Chief Executive Officer of two software consulting
companies for 13 years combined. Trained as an electrical and computer engineer, he wrote a chess
software program, The Sniper, while he was still 19 years old. The Sniper eclipsed the covetted master barrier of 2200 elo points
in 1988 running on a 16 MHz Macintosh SE computer with only 512 Kilobytes of RAM. Ed's successful Blackjack Deluxe software
was proclaimed to be one of the "50 All-Time Best Programs" in the September 1996 issue of MacUser Magazine. Teaming up with
Gil Dodgen in 1997, they produced World Championship Checkers, the most powerful checkers software that was commercially
available for the next six years. In 2002, Ed was awarded U.S. Patent #6,481,716 for the invention of Gothic Chess. In 2003,
again teaming up with Gil Dodgen, they produced Gothic Vortex, the strongest Gothic Chess program available. Ed has published
technical papers for the International Computer Games Association, appeared in the book "Advances in Computer Games, 10th Edition",
writes a monthly Gothic Chess column for Chessville, writes checkers articles for The Draughts Razoo in England, annotates checkers
games for the American Checker Federation, and has maintained an undefeated record of over 140 Gothic Chess games played on ,
allowing only three games to end as draws.
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Steffen Kaufmann is a true Gothic Chess enthusiast who has been promoting the game
from his home base in Dresden, Germany, since the summer of 2004. His energetic output
has resulted in a tremendous amount of requests for a native German website and
live over-the-board tournaments. Steffen overseas the website and he has
been instrumental in motivating German programmers to create outstanding java tools
that allow games of Gothic Chess to be reviewed over the internet.
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Andrew Kirkpatrick, Executive Vice President and Secretary of the Gothic
Chess Association, 1998-2002, and Executive Vice President and Secretary
of the Gothic Chess Federation. Mr. Kirkpatrick oversees the company's
sales and is the point of contact for contract negotiations with all of
our vendors and distributors. Andy co-founded the Gothic Chess
Association with Ed Trice on October 16, 1998, and has been an integral
part of all aspects of operations. Mr. Kirkpatrick also holds a patent
for another product outside of the domain of Gothic Chess, and he is
well-versed in the process of both defending a patent as well as the
lengthy revisional processes associated with obtaining a patent. He is
currently in the process of negotiating airtime with nationwide
television reseller QVC, and overseeing our television commercial
production process.
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Brian Colgan oversees all accounting, legal and operational activities
of the firm. As COO of Alpha Strategies LLC, and in partnership with the
American Stock Exchange, Mr. Colgan oversaw the development of a
patented pricing and hedging model that allows any actively managed
mutual fund to be traded intra-day like a stock or index-based Exchange
Traded Fund. This 'Active ETF' is currently in the midst of the SEC
approval process. Prior to Alpha, Mr. Colgan was Senior Managing
Director of Application Development, and later Senior Managing Director
of Global Consulting at FNX Limited, a trading and risk management
software provider to the international banking community. Prior to FNX,
he spent 12 years at SunGard Capital Markets Inc., ultimately as Vice
President of the Devon System Development Group, where he integrated
Devon's 3.34 product for derivatives and fixed income settlement and
accounting with the Panorama and Forex systems for front office trading
and risk management. Mr. Colgan holds a BSE in Economics and Decision
Science from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
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Rob Colanzi first started playing tournament chess in 1981, and is still a very active player today.
He scored an impressive 6 points out of 9 in the 2004 World Open at the Adam's Mark Hotel in Philadelphia.
Rob has earned his Master rating in Gothic Chess with an amazing record of 63 wins with only 7 losses and 2 draws.
Joining the GCF in 2002, he has never missed a Gothic Chess tournament, either participating, directing, or
supervising new tournament directors in training.
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