Hans Berliner was an American correspondence chess player and computer scientist who held the title of World Correspondence Chess Champion from 1965 to 1968 and was named a Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess. He later became a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, where he directed development of the chess playing computer HiTech and created the B star search algorithm used in game tree analysis. He also wrote on chess opening theory, notably the book The System. Berliner reached a peak correspondence chess rating of 2763 and lived from 1929 to 2017.
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Hans Jack Berliner (January 27, 1929 - January 13, 2017) was an American chess player and computer scientist. He was the World Correspondence Chess Champion, from 1965-1968. He was a Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess.
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