Blitz

the first chess program by primary author Robert Hyatt and chess advisor Albert Gower from University of Southern Mississippi. Blitz was a Shannon Type B program written in Fortran. It played the ACM 1976, ACM 1977, the WCCC 1977, ACM 1978, the ACM 1979 (ran on UNIVAC 1100/80), until at the ACM 1980 successor Cray Blitz appeared. || toc =Description= Bob Hyatt's reply to Christophe Théron on Blitz :
 * Home * Engines * Blitz**
 * [[image:Lightnings_sequence_2_animation.gif link="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lightnings_sequence_2_animation.gif?uselang=en"]] ||~  || **Blitz**,
 * Blitz ||~  ||^   ||







=See also=
 * Cray Blitz
 * Meteorology
 * Petir

=Publications=
 * Editor (**1979**). //Will Blitz be next year's champ?// Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 7, pp. 80, July 1979 » ACM 1978, Blitz 6.5 - Belle, Round 4
 * Robert Hyatt (**1980**). //A Southern Blitz//. Personal Computing, Vol. 4, No. 6, pp. 93

=External Links=

Chess Program

 * [|Blitz' ICGA Tournaments]

Misc
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 * [|Blitz from Wikipedia]
 * The Sweet - [|The Ballroom Blitz], [|Top Of The Pops] in 1973, [|YouTube] Video

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 * Up one Level**