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Cray Blitz is a chess calculator from the 1980s for which the American computer scientist Bob Hyatt (* 1948) developed the chess program and who became world computer chess champion in 1983 and 1986 .

history

The Cray X-MP48

After Bob Hyatt had dealt with computer chess since 1975 , he developed the chess program Blitz . In 1979, the research department of the US company Cray made their then supercomputer Cray-1 available to him. In collaboration with Al Gower, a music professor and correspondence chess player, the first version of Cray Blitz was created . Three years later, the improved successor, the Cray X-MP  (picture) , was available, the fastest computer in the world until 1985. Thus Cray Blitz won both 1983 at the 14th and 1984 at the 15th North American Computer Chess Championship  . In addition, he won the world title in 1983 at the 4th and also in 1986 at the 5th World Computer Chess Championship  (WCCC).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World Championship in New York in Computer Chess International (CSI), No. 4, 1983, pp. 10-11
  2. ↑ Record participation in the Computer Chess World Championship in Computer Chess & Games (CSS), No. 3, 1986, pp. 18 / I – 18 / XII