Mikhail Donskoy

Lead developer of Kaissa, the world champion chess computer, Donskoy was a Soviet and Russian computer scientist. In 1970, he graduated from Moscow State University and joined the Institute of Control Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences, where he became one of the lead developers of Kaissa, a computer chess program that won the first World Computer Chess Championship in 1974.

After the dissolution of the Soviet computer chess initiative in the early 1980s, he went into the development of databases. In 1994, Donskoy established his own company, DISCo (Donskoy Interactive Software Company), which, among other projects, developed the Symbian interface for ABBYY Lingvo dictionaries.