HiTech was a chess machine

Computer chess

Computer chess is computer architecture encompassing hardware and software capable of playing chess autonomously without human guidance. Computer chess acts as solo entertainment , as aids to chess analysis, for computer chess competitions, and as research to provide insights into human...

 built at Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....

 under the direction of World Correspondence Chess Champion Dr. Hans J. Berliner, by Berliner, Carl Ebeling

Carl Ebeling

Carl Ebeling is an United States computer scientist, professor. His recent interests include coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures of integrated circuits.-Education and career:...

, Murray Campbell

Murray Campbell

Murray Campbell is a Canadian computer scientist.He is a Senior Manager in the Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, USA...

, and Gordon Goetsch.

HiTech won the 1985 and 1989 editions of the North American Computer Chess Championship

North American Computer Chess Championship

The North American Computer Chess Championship was a computer chess championship held from 1970 to 1994. It was organised by the Association for Computing Machinery and by Dr. Monty Newborn, Professor of Computer Science at McGill University. It was one of the first computer chess tournaments. The...

. In 1988 HiTech defeated GM

International Grandmaster

The title Grandmaster is awarded to strong chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain....

 Arnold Denker

Arnold Denker

Arnold Sheldon Denker was an American chess player, Grandmaster, and chess author. He was U.S. Chess Champion in 1945 and 1946....

 3½-½ in a match (though Denker was at the time well past his best, with an Elo rating of 2300).

HiTech was one of two competing chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 projects at Carnegie Mellon; the one that would succeed in the quest of beating the World Chess Champion was its rival ChipTest

ChipTest

ChipTest was a 1985 chess playing computer built by Feng-hsiung Hsu, Thomas Anantharaman and Murray Campbell at Carnegie Mellon University. It is the predecessor of Deep Thought which in turn evolved into Deep Blue....

 (later Deep Thought

Deep Thought (chess computer)

Deep Thought was a computer designed to play chess. Deep Thought was initially developed at Carnegie Mellon University and later at IBM. It was second in the line of chess computers developed by Feng-hsiung Hsu, starting with ChipTest and culminating in Deep Blue...

 and Deep Blue).

External links

• For First Time, a Chess Computer Outwits Grandmaster in Tournament, The New York Times
  The New York Times
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  , September 26, 1988