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Subject: Re: amateur crafty 1-0

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:33:56 02/07/00

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On February 07, 2000 at 15:13:06, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On February 07, 2000 at 14:42:07, David Eppstein wrote:
>
>>On February 07, 2000 at 13:42:10, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>In fact, I will be very surprised if any GM has ever written a
>>>world championship caliber program.
>>
>>What, World Correspondence Champion Hans Berliner doesn't count?
>>(I'm pretty sure he's not an over-the-board GM but it's hard to
>>argue about his chess skills. And let's not talk about Botvinnik.)
>
>I was aware of Botvinnik (and the incredible controversy) but I did not know
>that Hans Berliner had written a world champion program.  To compound my
>incredible ignorance, what program was it?
>
>[No, I'm not being facetious, I really don't know]


He wrote JBIIT in the early 1970's (Just because it is there).  He then was
the head of the HiTech project in the middle 80's.



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