18-510: The System may refer to: Literature [ edit ] The System , a book on chess by Hans Berliner The System , a comic book by Peter Kuper The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football , a 2013 book by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian Music [ edit ] The System, an American record label in partnership with Warner Music. The System (band) , an American synth pop duo founded in 1982 "The System",
36-407: 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. 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
54-510: A book explaining his opening repertoire, The System . He claimed that the move 1.d4 gives White a large, and possibly decisive, advantage. He died on January 13, 2017, in Riviera Beach, Florida, fourteen days away from his 88th birthday. Yakov Estrin–Hans Berliner, 5th CC World Ch Final 1965; Two Knights Defense , Ulvestad Variation ( ECO C57) Bibliography Chess player Too Many Requests If you report this error to
72-485: A derogatory term for the Weimar Republic The system may also refer to someone being placed in the database of prisons See also [ edit ] System (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The System . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
90-532: A song by punk band The Black Pacific El Sistema (Sp., "The System"), publicly financed music-education program originating in Venezuela Film [ edit ] The System (1953 film) , an American crime film The System (1964 film) , a British film The System (2014 film) , a Pakistani action/drama film The System (2022 film) , an American action film Sports [ edit ] The System (Gaelic football) The System,
108-500: A strategy in basketball devised by Paul Westhead The System or Grinnell System , a fast-paced basketball strategy developed at Grinnell College Systema , a Russian martial art The System, a stable in TNA Wrestling . Television [ edit ] The System , a 1996 BBC TV documentary series The System , a 2008 television special starring Derren Brown Other uses [ edit ] The System ,
126-469: 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. 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
144-561: 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
162-585: 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..." 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
180-543: The Two Knights Defense to defeat Yakov Estrin in that tournament. Berliner's opening novelty in that variation is still considered critical. 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
198-473: The ICCF's world list, behind Joop van Oosterom (2777) and Ulf Andersson (2737). 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 . His 1974 thesis was titled: "Chess as Problem Solving: The Development of a Tactics Analyzer". His subsequent research at Carnegie Mellon eventually led to
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#1732783377799216-593: 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 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. Berliner played for his country's Olympiad team at Helsinki 1952 , drawing his only game on
234-400: 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 . The result was BKG, written in the late 1970s on
252-400: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_System&oldid=1200544277 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Hans Berliner Hans Jack Berliner (January 27, 1929 – January 13, 2017)
270-709: The project included Carl Ebeling and Murray Campbell . Berliner was elected a Founding Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 1990. Berliner retired from Carnegie Mellon in 1998. In 1998 he self-published a booklet, From the Deathbed of 4. Ng5 in the Two Knights Defense , analyzing the opening of his game with Estrin, as well as attempted improvements upon it by subsequent commentators. In 1999 he published
288-522: The second reserve board. Berliner played four times in the US Chess Championship . 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. 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
306-571: 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
324-459: Was future Estonian President Lennart Meri , whose father was serving as Estonia's ambassador to Germany. 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
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