Mathias Feist

Mathias Feist (born 1961 in Germany) is a ChessBase and Fritz programmer. He led the team that programmed Deep Fritz, which has been compared to Deep Blue. He was hired at the end of the 1980s to port the ChessBase program from Atari ST to DOS. He soon became an expert in the area of chess engines and connecting them with the ChessBase and Fritz interfaces.