Erdoğan Güneş (known in the computer chess world as “Erdo”) is a Turkish computer chess expert based in Waldkraiburg, Germany, and a multiple world computer chess champion as operator of Komodo. He runs the Super Talents engine room: five 384-core machines hosted in Germany.
Engine Operator and Opening Book Author
For more than two decades Erdoğan has prepared opening books for top chess programs and operated them at official computer chess championships. He is especially well known for his skill at the board during blitz events. Over the years he has supported and operated engines such as Hydra, Deep Sjeng, HIARCS, Zappa, Goliath, Falcon and Komodo.
He was part of the Hydra team in 2004 and later co-authored the article “Hydra: Report and Technical Overview”, published in the ICGA Journal in 2020. At the 2010 World Computer Chess Championship in Kanazawa, Japan, he provided opening books for several programs and was a team member of Rondo and Fridolin.
World Titles with Komodo
From 2016 to 2019 Erdoğan operated Komodo at the World Computer Chess Championships. In this period Komodo collected world titles in the main event, the World Chess Software Championship and the blitz events, and won the Shannon Trophy four times in a row (2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019). In 2018 in Stockholm the team went for a clean sweep of the titles.
Highlights
- Four-time Shannon Trophy winner with Komodo (2016–2019)
- World Chess Software Champion with Komodo (2016, 2018, 2019)
- Member of the Hydra team (2004)
- Opening book author for many leading engines
- Inventor of the “Döner Gambit” (1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f3)
