HiTech

a chess entity (special purpose hardware + software) by Hans Berliner and a crew of assorted experts at Carnegie Mellon University in [|Pittsburgh] - Carl Ebeling, Murray Campbell, Gordon Goetsch, Andrew James Palay and later Andy Gruss, Larry Slomer  and Chris McConnell. Move generation and pattern recognition for evaluation purposes was done in hardware - With 64 chips in parallel. Search algorithm was either alpha-beta as well as B* (ACM 1993). || toc =Photos= =Quotes= Hans Berliner on the HiTech team :
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 * [[image:5-0 and 5-2.Hi-Tech_Machine.102645418.HSU.lg.jpg link="http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-431f4cc17c77f"]] ||~  || **HiTech**,
 * HiTech chess machine ||~  ||^   ||
 * [[image:5-2a.Carnegie_Mellon_University.Berliner-Hans_Ebeling-Carl.198X.L062302001.CMU.lg.jpg width="640" link="http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-431e1a07ad4c1"]] ||
 * Hans Berliner and Carl Ebeling, developers of HiTech at Carnegie Mellon University ||

=Achievements= > In 1985 HiTech won the ACM computer championship in Denver. > In 1986 (June 17&18) HiTech beat the women grandmaster [|Jana Miles] (2265), score: 2-0 > In 1986 (July 6), draw with black against [|GM Michael Rohde] in the [|Philadelphia World Open] > In 1987 HiTech won a match against IM [|Laszlo Perecz] (2355) 1.5-0.5 > HiTech defeated Grandmaster [|Arnold Denker] (74 years old) in a match (3.5-0.5) > HiTech became the first chess computer to rated Grandmaster strength > In 1988 (June 23) HiTech drew a 2 games match against [|Manuel Apicella] (2370) in Royan ; both won with white pieces
 * In 1985 HiTech achieved a performance rating of 2530. It was the first computer to have a rating over 2400.
 * In 1986 HiTech tied with Cray Blitz at the WCCC 1986.
 * In 1987 (February 23) HiTech beats the French chess prodigy [|Joël Lautier] (14 y.o. and 2255 Elo) in [|Cannes]
 * In 1988 HiTech won the Pennsylvania State Chess Championship after defeating IM [|Ed Formanek] (2485)
 * In 1989 HiTech won the ACM championship in Reno
 * In 1990 HiTech won the Aegon in [|The Hague]

=Description=

1987
given by Hans Berliner in //Some Innovations Introduced by Hitech// :
 * A general purpose host computer (SUN 3) which provides a user interface, does search control, and has all the chess knowledge in the form of an Oracle, and
 * A general purpose host computer (SUN 3) which provides a user interface, does search control, and has all the chess knowledge in the form of an Oracle, and

1995
given in 1995 from the ICGA tournament site :

=See also=
 * B*
 * Carnegie Mellon University
 * StarTech
 * Tech
 * The Fredkin Prize

=Publications=
 * Hans Berliner (**1985**). //HiTech wins North American Computer-Chess Championship//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 4 » ACM 1985
 * Carolyn Kelly (**1986**). //[|Chess Playing Computer Wins Championship]//. [|The Tartan], [|pdf] from The Computer History Museum
 * Carl Ebeling (**1986**). //[|All the Right Moves: A VLSI Architecture for Chess]//. Ph.D. thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, [|MIT Press], ISBN 0-262-05035-8, [|amazon.com]
 * Hans Berliner (**1987**). //Some Innovations Introduced by Hitech//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 3
 * Hans Berliner (**1988**). //Pennsyvania State Chess Championship - HiTech Becomes First Computer Senior Master//. AI Magazine Volume 9 Number 3 (© AAAI), [|pdf]
 * Hans Berliner (**1989**). //Some Innovations Introduced by Hitech//. Advances in Computer Chess 5
 * Hans Berliner, Carl Ebeling (**1990**). //Hitech//. Computers, Chess, and Cognition, pp. 79-109

=Forum Posts=

1990 ...

 * [|Hitech - Lautier] by Hans Berliner, rgc, April 19, 1990
 * [|HiTech, AEGON] by Gordon Goetsch, rgc, May 11, 1990 » Aegon 1990
 * [|Aegon Tournament 1990; Hitech best overall] by Hans Berliner, rgc, May 25, 1990 » Aegon 1990, ACM 1989
 * [|What happened to Hitech?] by Joshua Lee, CCC, October 07, 1999

2000 ...

 * [|For collector : Hitech-Apicella games (1988)] by Vincent Lejeune, CCC, January 22, 2000
 * [|How would Hitech do against Crafty and others?] by Joshua Lee, CCC, January 17, 2001
 * [|Hitech] by Joshua Lee, CCC, July 08, 2004

2010 ...

 * [|Hitech-Lautier Cannes 1987 (CC-History)] by Vincent Lejeune, CCC, June 10, 2015

=External Links=

Chess Entity

 * [|HiTech from Wikipedia]
 * [|HiTech's ICGA Tournaments]
 * [|HiTech] from The Computer History Museum
 * [|60 games from HiTech on 365chess.com]

Misc
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 * [|High tech from Wikipedia]
 * [|High tech (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
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