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15... Bxf3 16. Bxf3 Qxd4+ 17. Kh1 Bxg3 18. hxg3 Rb6 19. d3 Ne3 20. Bxe3 Qxe3 21. Bg4 h5 22. Bh3 g5 23. Nd2 g4 24. Nc4 Qxg3 25. Nxb6 gxh3 26. Qf3 hxg2+ 27. Qxg2 Qxg2+ 28. Kxg2 cxb6 29. Rf1 Ke7 30. Re1+ Kd6 31. Rf1 Rc8 32. Rxf7 Rc7 33. Rf2 Ke5 34. a4 Kd4 35. a5 Kxd3 36. Rf3+ Kc2 37. b4 b5 38. a6 Rc4
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won. The last three times Berliner played in the U.S. Championship, Fischer won the tournament. In 1957–58 at New York, Berliner had his best result, 5th place with 7/13. In 1960–61 at New York, he scored 4½/11, tying for 8th–10th place. Finally in 1962–63 at New York, he scored 5/11 for a tied
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of any player in the United States, at 2726, 84 points above the second-highest rated player. Berliner's 2726 rating placed him third on the ICCF's world list, behind
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at the New York State Championship. He also won the 1953 New York State Championship (the first win by a non-New Yorker), the 1956 Eastern States Open directed by
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Berliner is remembered most for his feats in correspondence play, in which games played by mail can take months or even years to complete. He won the 5th
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to smooth out the transition between phases, and by July 1979, BKG 9.8 was strong enough to play against the ruling world champion
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level. It won the Pennsylvania State Chess Championship several times. Students who worked with Berliner on the project included
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persecution, taking up residence in Washington, D.C. He learned chess at age 13, and "it quickly became his main preoccupation."
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Berliner was born January 27, 1929, in Berlin to a Jewish family. One of his classmates at school was future Estonian President
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Championship (the first of five wins of that tournament) and the Southern States Championship, and tied for second place with
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McClain, Dylan, Hans Berliner, 87, Master Chess Player and Programmer, New York Times, January 17, 2017, p.A15
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He died on January 13, 2017, in Riviera Beach, Florida, fourteen days away from his 88th birthday.
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1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 b5 6. Bf1 Nd4 7. c3 Nxd5 8. Ne4 Qh4 9. Ng3 Bg4
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in that tournament. Berliner's opening novelty in that variation is still considered critical.
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14.Qb3! fxg2 (14...Nb4!! 15.Rxf3 c6!! 16.Be2! Bxf3 17.gxf3 Bxg3 18.hxg3 Qxg3+
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HiTech was the first computer chess system to reach the 2400 (senior master)
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His subsequent research at Carnegie Mellon eventually led to the creation of
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Berliner started a new career in 1969, enrolling in the doctoral program at
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10...Nf5 11.Bxb5+ Kd8 12.0-0 Bc5+ 13.d4 exd4 14.Ne4!+/− (Kopylov)
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Berliner, Hans, et al. "Backgammon program beats world champ",
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In 1999 he published a book explaining his opening repertoire,
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Berliner is mentioned in "How I Started To Write", an essay by
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As of March 31, 2005, Berliner still had by far the highest
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Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
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Yakov Estrin–Hans Berliner, 5th CC World Ch Final 1965;
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gives White a large, and possibly decisive, advantage.
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Hans Berliner, chess master and programmer, dies at 87
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From the Deathbed of 4. Ng5 in the Two Knights Defense
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Oral History of Hans Berliner at ComputerHistory.org
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The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games
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He claimed that the move 7: 1375:(2nd ed.), David McKay 1284:"Estrin vs. Berliner, 1965" 1217:Hans Berliner (Fall 1988). 1007:(retrieved 31 January 2020) 935: 398:, under the supervision of 10: 1642: 1586:Chess Olympiad competitors 1487: (archived 2011-08-11) 1165:"Hans Berliner, 1929-2017" 942:Chess piece relative value 526: 392:Carnegie Mellon University 255:Carnegie Mellon University 1611:Chess players from Berlin 1522: 1513: 1498: 1422:Modern Chess Brilliancies 944:– gives Berliner's system 866:Position after 13...exf3 432:for game tree searching. 232: 222: 212: 202: 197: 189: 177: 164: 159: 155: 145: 127: 110: 100: 89: 68: 48: 34: 26: 21: 1106:, pp. 309–15), and 533:to describe chess moves. 486: 1438:FőldeĂĄk, ÁrpĂĄd (1979), 1346:Berliner, Hans (1999), 1316:Artificial Intelligence 1306:Berliner, Hans (1979), 1163:Alex Dunne (May 2017). 493:Berliner, Hans (1999), 386:Computer chess research 1566:American chess writers 1561:American chess players 1442:, Dover Publications, 1241:"Elected AAAI Fellows" 875:, Ulvestad Variation ( 458:Writing and retirement 428:He also developed the 82:Riviera Beach, Florida 1591:Computer chess people 1200:"Computer Backgammon" 333:US Chess Championship 302:Norman Tweed Whitaker 1596:Jewish chess players 1373:Profile of a Prodigy 1057:, p. 176), and 355:Berliner played the 344:Correspondence chess 294:District of Columbia 247:Correspondence Chess 245:, and was the World 1509:Vladimir Zagorovsky 1352:Gambit Publications 1204:Scientific American 1186:ACM SIGART Bulletin 873:Two Knights Defense 499:Gambit Publications 430:B* search algorithm 357:Two Knights Defense 160:Academic background 102:ICCF World Champion 1472:Hans Jack Berliner 1465:player details at 1463:Hans Jack Berliner 1401:Carroll & Graf 1270:The New York Times 1110:, pp. 217–21) 1073:, pp. 201–02) 531:algebraic notation 529:This section uses 239:Hans Jack Berliner 30:Hans Jack Berliner 1539: 1538: 1523:Succeeded by 1174:. pp. 43–45. 1061:, pp. 16–17) 922:14... 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United States
Germany
Berlin
Riviera Beach, Florida
ICCF Grandmaster
ICCF World Champion
ICCF
rating
2726
ICCF
peak rating
Alma mater
Carnegie Mellon
Thesis
Computer science
Carnegie Mellon
HiTech
chess player
Correspondence Chess
Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess
Carnegie Mellon University
HiTech
Lennart Meri
Nazi
Carlos Fuentes
District of Columbia
Larry Evans
Norman Tweed Whitaker
Washington, D.C.
William Lombardy

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