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Hans Berliner (Hans Jack Berliner) was born on 27 January, 1929 in Berlin, Germany, is an American chess player. Discover Hans Berliner's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?

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Age 88 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 27 January, 1929
Birthday 27 January
Birthplace Berlin, Germany
Date of death 2017
Died Place Riviera Beach, Florida, U.S.
Nationality Germany

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1929

Hans Jack Berliner (January 27, 1929 – January 13, 2017) was an American chess player, and was the World Correspondence Chess Champion, from 1965–1968.

He was a Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess.

Berliner was a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

He directed the construction of the chess computer HiTech, and was also a published chess writer.

Berliner was born January 27, 1929, in Berlin to a Jewish family.

One of his classmates at school was future Estonian President Lennart Meri, whose father was serving as Estonia's ambassador to Germany.

1937

In 1937, Berliner's family moved to the United States to escape Nazi persecution, taking up residence in Washington, D.C. He learned chess at age 13, and "it quickly became his main preoccupation."

Berliner is mentioned in "How I Started To Write", an essay by Carlos Fuentes, where he is described as "an extremely brilliant boy", with "a brilliant mathematical mind".

"I shall always remember his face, dark and trembling, his aquiline nose and deep-set, bright eyes with their great sadness, the sensitivity of his hands..."

1949

In 1949, he became a master, won the District of Columbia Championship (the first of five wins of that tournament) and the Southern States Championship, and tied for second place with Larry Evans at the New York State Championship.

1952

Berliner played for his country's Olympiad team at Helsinki 1952, drawing his only game on the second reserve board.

Berliner played four times in the US Chess Championship.

1953

He also won the 1953 New York State Championship (the first win by a non-New Yorker), the 1956 Eastern States Open directed by Norman Tweed Whitaker in Washington, D.C., ahead of William Lombardy, Nicolas Rossolimo, Bobby Fischer (at age 13) and Arthur Feuerstein, and the 1957 Champion of Champions tournament.

1954

In 1954 at New York, he scored 6½/13 to tie 8–9th places; Arthur Bisguier won.

The last three times Berliner played in the U.S. Championship, Fischer won the tournament.

1957

In 1957–58 at New York, Berliner had his best result, 5th place with 7/13.

1960

In 1960–61 at New York, he scored 4½/11, tying for 8th–10th place.

1962

Finally in 1962–63 at New York, he scored 5/11 for a tied 7th–8th place.

Berliner is remembered most for his feats in correspondence play, in which games played by mail can take months or even years to complete.

1965

He won the 5th World Correspondence Chess Championship, beginning the final game on April 1, 1965, and finishing three years later.

He won with the score of 14/16 (twelve wins, four draws), a margin of victory of three points, thrice that of any other winner in these championships.

Berliner played the Two Knights Defense to defeat Yakov Estrin in that tournament.

Berliner's opening novelty in that variation is still considered critical.

1969

Berliner started a new career in 1969, enrolling in the doctoral program at Carnegie Mellon University to study computer science, under the supervision of Allen Newell.

1970

The result was BKG, written in the late 1970s on a DEC PDP-10.

Early versions of BKG played badly even against poor players, but Berliner noticed that its critical mistakes were always at transitions.

1974

His 1974 thesis was titled: "Chess as Problem Solving: The Development of a Tactics Analyzer".

His subsequent research at Carnegie Mellon eventually led to the creation of HiTech.

At first it performed well, but only until it ran into transitions, that is, points in the game when the balance between the players changed.

This led Berliner to conclude that HiTech was weak in board evaluation.

He decided that to explore the problem, he should write an evaluation function for another game: backgammon.

1979

He applied principles of fuzzy logic to smooth out the transition between phases, and by July 1979, BKG 9.8 was strong enough to play against the ruling world champion Luigi Villa.

It won the match 7–1, becoming the first computer program to defeat a world champion in any game.

Berliner states that the victory was largely a matter of luck, as the computer received more favorable dice rolls.

He also developed the B* search algorithm for game tree searching.

HiTech was the first computer chess system to reach the 2400 (senior master) USCF rating level.

It won the Pennsylvania State Chess Championship several times.

Students who worked with Berliner on the project included Carl Ebeling and Murray Campbell.

2005

As of March 31, 2005, Berliner still had by far the highest International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF) rating 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 Joop van Oosterom (2777) and Ulf Andersson (2737).