Martin+Bryant

a British computer scientist, and computer chess and games programmer. In the late 70s, while studying at the University of Manchester and some first chess programming trials, he got reawakened when he discovered a chess program listing on the university mainframe, a CDC Cyber 72, apparently the version of Chess 3.5 which won the ACM 1971. Along with studying that listing as well as Monroe Newborn's book //Computer Chess//, Martin wrote his own chess program in Pascal, dubbed White Knight. After graduating, he started to port White Knight in 6502 Assembly for an Apple II. He played the European MCC 1981 and soon became a professional chess and games programmer, also working for David Levy and Kevin O’Connell and their respective companies Philidor Software and Intelligent Software. In 1983, White Knight was bought by [|BBC] for the BBC Micro, and Martin soon started with his mighty Colossus brand programs Colossus Chess, Colossus Draughts and Colossus Backgammon. In the 90s, Martin Bryant supplied most of Colossus Draughts opening book knowledge to Jonathan Schaeffer's [|Chinook] program. In 2004 Martin Bryant started to work on a completely new version of Colossus Chess conforming to the UCI protocol. || toc =Photos=
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=Publications=
 * Tony Harrington (**1983**). //University Challenge - Martin Bryant and White Knight//. Personal Computer World, [|August 1983], [|pdf] hosted by Mike Watters
 * Alex Bell (**1983**). //[|Chess for three gives the White Knight a winning gambit]//. [|The Micro User Magazine], December 1983
 * Martin Bryant (**1984**). //Chess software for home computers//. [|Computer & Video Games], [|January 1984], [|pdf] hosted by Mike Watters
 * Tony Harrington (**1984**). //Of might and men//.	[|Personal Computer News], [|November 1984], [|pdf] hosted by Mike Watters
 * Jonathan Schaeffer, Rob Lake, Paul Lu and Martin Bryant (**1996**). //Chinook: The World Man-Machine Checkers Champion//. AI Magazine, Vol. 17, No. 1

=Forum Posts=
 * [|Interview with Martin Bryant, the Man behind Colossus] by Fernando Villegas, CCC, May 18, 2002
 * [|isn't there a new version of colossus ?] by Thorsten Czub, CCC, April 29, 2004
 * [|Colossus 2007d Available] by Martin Bryant, CCC, September 22, 2007
 * [|64-bit PGO problem?] by Martin Bryant, CCC, June 27, 2008
 * [|Correlation Experiment Results] by Martin Bryant, CCC, August 13, 2008
 * [|Colossus 2008a available] by Martin Bryant, CCC, September 07, 2008
 * [|Colossus 2008b available] by Martin Bryant, CCC, September 23, 2008

=External Links= > [|Colossus - Author]
 * [|Colossus Home]
 * [|Martin Bryant's ICGA Tournaments]
 * [|Martin Bryant from Wikipedia]
 * [|Chess Computers - The UK Story] from [|Chess Computer UK] by Mike Watters
 * [|Interview] with David Levy from [|schach-computer wiki]

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