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was an American chess master and computer scientist. As MIT-student he was chess expert, tester, and book-author of The Greenblatt Chess Program also known as Mac Hack, and Tech, the Technology Chess Program by James Gillogly from Carnegie Mellon University. Tech 2 was Alan Baisley's own implementation, re-written and further developed in assembly language on a PDP-10. It gained about 25% in speed over the [|BLISS] version on the same machine. Tech 2 was runner-up at the ACM 1973, with Tech also competing, and further participated at the WCCC 1974 in [|Stockholm]. Alan Baisley transferred to [|Berkeley], where he became involved with the [|counterculture] of the late 1960's and early 1970's. The word was that he died of a [|drug overdose] while still a very young man.
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=Photos & Games=

Robert Q
First tournament game by a computer, Carl Wagner (2190) - Mac Hack VI aka "Robert Q"

code [Event "Boylston Chess Club Tournament"] [Site "YMCU, Boston"] [Date "1967.01.21"] [Round "1"] [White "Carl Wagner"] [Black "Robert Q"] [Result "1-0"]
 * [[image:RobertQAlanBaisley1967.JPG width="500" link="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1928&dat=19670123&id=O2ggAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1GYFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2308,2313204"]] ||
 * Carl Wagner and Alan Baisley (right) ||

1.g3 e5 2.Nf3 e4 3.Nd4 Bc5 4.Nb3 Bb6 5.Bg2 Nf6 6.c4 d6 7.Nc3 Be6 8.d3 exd3 9.Bxb7 Nbd7 10.exd3 Rb8 11.Bg2 O-O 12.O-O Bg4 13.Qc2 Re8 14.d4 c5 15.Be3 cxd4 16.Nxd4 Ne5 17.h3 Bd7 18.b3 Bc5 19.Rad1 Qc8 20.Kh2 Ng6 21.Bg5 Re5 22.Bxf6 gxf6 23.Ne4 f5 24.Nf6+ Kg7 25.Nxd7 Qxd7 26.Nc6 Rbe8 27.Nxe5 Rxe5 28.Qc3 f6 29.Rd3 Re2 30.Rd2 Rxd2 31.Qxd2 Ne5 32.Rd1 Qc7 33.Bd5 Kg6 34.b4 Bb6 35.Qc2 Nc6 36.Be6 Nd4 37.Rxd4 Bxd4 38.Qxf5+ Kg7 39.Qg4+ Kh6 40.Qxd4 Qe7 41.Qh4+ Kg6 42.Bf5+ Kf7 43.Qxh7+ Kf8 44.Qh8+ Kf7 45.Qa8 Qc7 46.Qd5+ Kg7 47.Kg2 Qe7 48.h4 Kh6 49.g4 Kg7 50.h5 Qe2 51.h6+ Kf8 52.h7 Qxf2+ 53.Kxf2 Ke7 54.h8=Q a6 55.Qe6# 1-0 code

WCCC 1974
code [Event "WCCC 1974"] [Site "Stockholm, Sweden"] [Date "1974.08.06"] [Round "2"] [White "Tech 2"] [Black "Kaissa"] [Result "0-1"]
 * [[image:Kaissa_Baisley_Donskoy.jpg width="500" link="http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbd92710"]] ||
 * Alan Baisley (left) faces Mikhail Donskoy, Round 2 WCCC 1974, Tech 2 vs Kaissa ||

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.Bb5+ Bd7 4.Bc4 Bg4 5.f3 Bc8 6.Nc3 Nbd7 7.Ne4 Ne5 8.Nxf6+ exf6 9.Qe2 Qe7 10.Bb5+ c6 11.dxc6 bxc6 12.Ba4 Ba6 13.Qe4 O-O-O 14.Ne2 Bxe2 15.Kxe2 Qd7 16.d3 Re8 17.Be3 Bd6 18.c3 Bb8 19.Bc2 Ng6 20.Qb4 Nf4+ 21.Kf2 Rxe3 22.Kxe3 Nd5+ 23.Ke2 Nxb4 24.cxb4 Qd4 25.Rab1 Re8+ 26.Kf1 Qe3 27.d4 Qe2+ 28.Kg1 Qxc2 29.Kf1 Qxb1+ 30.Kf2 Qxb2+ 31.Kf1 Qe2+ 32.Kg1 Qd1+ 33.Kf2 Re2# code

=External Links=
 * [|Alan Baisley's ICGA Tournaments]
 * [|I'll Never Forget the Brilliant NM Alan Baisley] by Dan Heisman, [|Chess.com], June 06, 2013

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