Developer | Carl Ebeling, Hans J. Berliner, Murray Campbell, Gordon Goetsch, Andy Palay, Larry Slomer |
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Type | Chess machine |
Release date | c. 1985 |
HiTech, also referred to as Hitech, is a chess machine[1] built at Carnegie Mellon University under the direction of World Correspondence Chess Champion Hans J. Berliner. Members of the team working on HiTech included Berliner, Murray Campbell, Carl Ebeling, Gordon Goetsch, Andy Palay, and Larry Slomer.[2] In 1988, it became the first computer system to beat a grandmaster.[3]