Robert Hyatt

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Robert M. Hyatt (born March 18, 1948 in Laurel , Mississippi ), called "Bob", is a computer scientist and computer chess programmer . He is the developer of several chess programs such as Cray Blitz and Crafty .

Life

A Cray-1 in the Deutsches Museum in Munich
The Cray X-MP48

Bob Hyatt was educated at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg in the US state of Mississippi . He completed his studies there in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science (BS) and in 1983 with a Master of Science (MS) . In 1988 received his doctorate he with his doctoral thesis "Cray Blitz - A Computer Chess Playing Program" for Ph.D. at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in the state of Alabama . After that he was Professor of Computer Science there until 2016 .

He has been involved in computer chess since 1975 and is considered one of the pioneers in this field. One of his first projects was his Blitz program . In 1979 the research department of the US company Cray made their supercomputer , the Cray-1  (picture) , available to him. Cray Blitz was created in collaboration with Al Gower, a music professor and correspondence chess player . Three years later the successor to the Cray-1, the Cray X-MP  (picture) , was available, the fastest computer in the world until 1985. Both in 1983 at the 4th and 1986 at the 5th  World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) he won the world title.

In addition, Bob Hyatt has been developing Crafty for many years , a chess program that can be run on commercially available PCs , which he makes freely available in new versions (most recently Ver. 25.2) (see web links ).

Web links

  • Homepage accessed on November 17, 2017
  • Crafty. Retrieved November 17, 2017

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage accessed on November 17, 2017
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project, accessed November 17, 2017
  3. ↑ The power of the new center - Crafty, Comet and EXchess as Fritz Engines in Computerschach und Spiele (CSS), No. 6, 1998, pp. 9–15
personal data
SURNAME Hyatt, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hyatt, Bob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist and computer chess programmer
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Laurel (Mississippi)