Sandro Necchi:  

When I got back to Italy I stop playing soccer and start working. After about one year I had to go to the Army. I was sent to the mountain troops (Alpini) which is one of the best Italian military corp.; very famous after WWI. I left the army as sergeant major. When I got back I got married. I have two children; one girl and one boy. Now they are 38 and 32 years old. After some years I was able to get the job I was looking for: to be an external sales engineer. With this job I could travel a lot in Italy and in the world; in many countries more times. This let me understand also a lot of different mentalities which is something I like especially after my experience in USA. I started to play chess as well for hobby, but I stop soon as I had not time enough to play at high level as I would like. I decided to move my chess ideas in the computer field as in 1976 there were available some electronic chess boards, but my ideas were too advanced and it took me some years to be able to get them accepted. In 1976 I stated that just after year 2000 the computers would have reached the top chess player level and the strong chess players were laughing at me. This happen exactly as I expected. I had clear in mind what was needed and started to make part of it and waited a partner to make the other needed part. In 1995 I won the world chess championship title together with a great American programmer who worked also for NASA and suggested him an algorithm for auto-learning which turned out to be quite good and the first one to really be effective! After that I won another 14 world computer chess championship titles as part of a team of two people. It was my hobby until 2014 when I retired from competitions.. Meanwhile, in 2004, the company for which I worked moved the office from north Italy to center Italy (Lucca; near Pisa (where there is the famous leaning tower is) and Florence) and wanted me to move as well to rebuild the sales office and train new people to hire. My job was Office ...Expand for more