Edmund Moshammer born in 1989, lives in St. Gallen, Switzerland. He is currently studying economics. Edmund is an hobby chess player (ca. 1600 Elo) and became interested in chessprogramming around the year 2006. His first efforts in the field he devoted to end-game tablebase generation, afterwards working on the chess engines CPW-Engine and Glass. In the last two projects he was responsible for the low-level programming.

Pawel Koziol - born in 1979, lives in Warsaw, Poland. Ph.D. specializing in the mediaeval chronicles, amateur programmer and semi-professional webpage designer. Enjoys mind games, being 6 kyu at Go and a 1800+ chess player. Responsible for the chess knowledge (or lack thereof) in Glass chess engine.

The two met together on the Chessprogramming Wiki and started coding a didactic chess engine called The CPW-Engine. Since this proved a lot of fun, they decided to start working on The Real Thing.