HiTech is a
chess machine
The ChessMachine was a chess computer sold between 1991 and 1995 by TASC (The Advanced Software Company). It was unique at the time for incorporating both an ARM2 coprocessor for the chess engine on an ISA card which plugged into an IBM PC and a s ...
built at
Carnegie Mellon University
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under the direction of
World Correspondence Chess Champion Dr.
Hans J. Berliner, by Berliner,
Carl Ebeling
Carl Ebeling is a United States computer scientist and professor. His recent interests include coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures of integrated circuits.
Education and career
He earned MS from Southern Illinois University Carbondale (19 ...
,
Murray Campbell
Murray Campbell is a Canadian computer scientist known for being part of the team that created Deep Blue; the first computer to defeat a world chess champion.
Biography
Campbell was involved in surveillance projects related to petroleum produ ...
, and
Gordon Goetsch
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.
HiTech was the first computer chess system to reach the 2400 (senior master)
USCF rating level. It won the
Pennsylvania State Chess Championship twice.
HiTech won the 1985 and 1989 editions of the
North American Computer Chess Championship. In 1988 HiTech defeated
GM Arnold Denker 3½-½
in a match (though Denker was at the time well past his best, with an
Elo rating
The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American physics professor.
The Elo system was invented as an improved ch ...
of 2300).
HiTech was one of two competing
chess projects at Carnegie Mellon; the one that would succeed in the quest of beating the
World Chess Champion was its rival
ChipTest ChipTest was a 1985 chess playing computer built by Feng-hsiung Hsu, Thomas Anantharaman and Murray Campbell at Carnegie Mellon University. It is the predecessor of Deep Thought which in turn evolved into Deep Blue.
ChipTest was based on a special ...
(the predecessor of IBM's
Deep Thought and
Deep Blue
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* ''Deep Blue'' (2001 film), a film by Dwight H. Little
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).
References
Chess computers
One-of-a-kind computers
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