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'''Alan Baisley''',
was an American chess master and computer scientist. As [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]-student he was chess expert, tester, and [[Opening Book Authors|book-author]] of [[Mac Hack]] <ref>[[Richard Greenblatt]], [[Donald Eastlake]], [[Stephen D. Crocker]] ('''1967'''). ''The Greenblatt Chess Program''. Proceedings of the AfiPs Fall Joint Computer Conference, Vol. 31, reprinted ('''1988''') in [[Computer Chess Compendium]], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/2-4.Greenblatt_Chess_Program/The_Greenblatt_Chess_Program.Greenblatt_Eastlake_Crocker.1967.Fall_Joint_Computer_Conference.062303060.sm.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]] or as [http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6176 pdf or ps] from [http://libraries.mit.edu/dspace-mit/ DSpace] at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]</ref> <ref>[[Jaap van den Herik]] ('''1992'''). ''An Interview with Richard D. Greenblatt''. [[ICGA Journal#15_4|ICCA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4]]</ref>, and [[Tech]], the Technology Chess Program by [[James Gillogly]] from [[Carnegie Mellon University]]. [[Tech#Tech2|Tech 2]] was Alan Baisley's own implementation, re-written and further developed in [[Assembly|assembly]] language on a [[PDP-10]]. It gained about 25% in speed over the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLISS BLISS] version on the same machine <ref>[[James Gillogly]] ('''1978'''). ''Performance Analysis of the Technology Chess Program''. Ph.D. thesis, CMU-CS-78-189, [[Carnegie Mellon University]], [http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/anon/usr/ftp/scan/CMU-CS-77-gillogly.pdf CMU-CS-77 pdf]</ref>. Tech 2 was runner-up at the [[ACM 1973]], with Tech also competing <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6cdeeb The eleventh ACM's North American Computer Chess Championship, Nashville, Tennessee October 26-28, 1980], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3.1980_11th_ACM_NACCC/The_Eleventh_ACMs_North_American_Computer_Chess_Championship.1980.062303015.sm.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]], see History of ACM events pp. 11</ref>, and further participated at the [[WCCC 1974]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm Stockholm] <ref>[[https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=445 Alan Baisley's ICGA Tournaments]</ref>. Alan Baisley transferred to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,_California Berkeley], where he became involved with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s counterculture] of the late 1960's and early 1970's. The word was that he died of a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_overdose drug overdose] while still a very young man <ref>[http://www.chess.com/blog/danheisman/ill-never-forget-nm-alan-baisley I'll Never Forget the Brilliant NM Alan Baisley] by [[Dan Heisman]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess.com Chess.com], June 06, 2013</ref>.
=Photos & Games=
==Robert Q==
{{Robert Q}}
[[File:RobertQAlanBaisley1967.JPG|none|border|text-bottom|560px]]
Carl Wagner and [[Alan Baisley]] (right) <ref>[[Richard Greenblatt]], [[Donald Eastlake]], [[Stephen D. Crocker]] ('''1967'''). ''The Greenblatt Chess Program''. Proceedings of the AfiPs Fall Joint Computer Conference, Vol. 31, pp. 808</ref> <ref>
[https://lichess.org/kyBnGoLK Carl Wagner vs Robert Q from lichess.org]</ref>
<pre>
[Event "Boylston Chess Club Tournament"]
[Site "YMCU, Boston"]
[Date "1967.01.21"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Carl Wagner"]
[Black "Robert Q"]
[Result "1-0"]
1.g3 e5 2.Nf3 e4 3.Nd4 Bc5 4.Nb3 Bb6 5.Bg2 Nf6 6.c4 d6 7.Nc3 Be6 8.d3 exd3
9.Bxb7 Nbd7 10.exd3 Rb8 11.Bg2 O-O 12.O-O Bg4 13.Qc2 Re8 14.d4 c5 15.Be3 cxd4
16.Nxd4 Ne5 17.h3 Bd7 18.b3 Bc5 19.Rad1 Qc8 20.Kh2 Ng6 21.Bg5 Re5 22.Bxf6 gxf6
23.Ne4 f5 24.Nf6+ Kg7 25.Nxd7 Qxd7 26.Nc6 Rbe8 27.Nxe5 Rxe5 28.Qc3 f6 29.Rd3 Re2
30.Rd2 Rxd2 31.Qxd2 Ne5 32.Rd1 Qc7 33.Bd5 Kg6 34.b4 Bb6 35.Qc2 Nc6 36.Be6 Nd4
37.Rxd4 Bxd4 38.Qxf5+ Kg7 39.Qg4+ Kh6 40.Qxd4 Qe7 41.Qh4+ Kg6 42.Bf5+ Kf7 43.Qxh7+
Kf8 44.Qh8+ Kf7 45.Qa8 Qc7 46.Qd5+ Kg7 47.Kg2 Qe7 48.h4 Kh6 49.g4 Kg7 50.h5 Qe2
51.h6+ Kf8 52.h7 Qxf2+ 53.Kxf2 Ke7 54.h8=Q a6 55.Qe6# 1-0
</pre>
==WCCC 1974==
[[File:Kaissa_Baisley_Donskoy.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|560px]]
[[Alan Baisley]] (left) faces [[Mikhail Donskoy]], Round 2 [[WCCC 1974]], [[Tech|Tech 2]] vs [[Kaissa]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbd92710 Kaissa at the 1st World Computer Chess Championship in Stockholm], Photo by [[Monroe Newborn]], [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref> <ref>[http://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/round.php?tournament=7&round=2&id=5 Stockholm 1974 - Chess - Round 2 - Game 5 (ICGA Tournaments)]</ref>
<pre>
[Event "WCCC 1974"]
[Site "Stockholm, Sweden"]
[Date "1974.08.06"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Tech 2"]
[Black "Kaissa"]
[Result "0-1"]
1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Nf6 3. Bb5+ Bd7 4. Bc4 Bg4 5. f3 Bc8 6. Nc3 Nbd7 7. Ne4 Ne5
8. Nxf6+ exf6 9. Qe2 Qe7 10. Bb5+ c6 11. dxc6 bxc6 12. Ba4 Ba6 13. Qe4 O-O-O
14. Ne2 Bxe2 15. Kxe2 Qd7 16. d3 Re8 17. Be3 Bd6 18. c3 Bb8 19. Bc2 Ng6
20. Qb4 Nf4+ 21. Kf2 Rxe3 22. Kxe3 Nd5+ 23. Ke2 Nxb4 24. cxb4 Qd4 25. Rab1 Re8+
26. Kf1 Qe3 27. d4 Qe2+ 28. Kg1 Qxc2 29. Kf1 Qxb1+ 30. Kf2 Qxb2+ 31. Kf1 Qe2+
32. Kg1 Qd1+ 33. Kf2 Re2# 0-1
</pre>
=External Links=
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=445 Alan Baisley's ICGA Tournaments]]
* [http://www.chess.com/blog/danheisman/ill-never-forget-nm-alan-baisley I'll Never Forget the Brilliant NM Alan Baisley] by [[Dan Heisman]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess.com Chess.com], June 06, 2013
=References=
<references />
'''[[People|Up one level]]'''
'''Alan Baisley''',
was an American chess master and computer scientist. As [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]-student he was chess expert, tester, and [[Opening Book Authors|book-author]] of [[Mac Hack]] <ref>[[Richard Greenblatt]], [[Donald Eastlake]], [[Stephen D. Crocker]] ('''1967'''). ''The Greenblatt Chess Program''. Proceedings of the AfiPs Fall Joint Computer Conference, Vol. 31, reprinted ('''1988''') in [[Computer Chess Compendium]], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/2-4.Greenblatt_Chess_Program/The_Greenblatt_Chess_Program.Greenblatt_Eastlake_Crocker.1967.Fall_Joint_Computer_Conference.062303060.sm.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]] or as [http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6176 pdf or ps] from [http://libraries.mit.edu/dspace-mit/ DSpace] at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]</ref> <ref>[[Jaap van den Herik]] ('''1992'''). ''An Interview with Richard D. Greenblatt''. [[ICGA Journal#15_4|ICCA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4]]</ref>, and [[Tech]], the Technology Chess Program by [[James Gillogly]] from [[Carnegie Mellon University]]. [[Tech#Tech2|Tech 2]] was Alan Baisley's own implementation, re-written and further developed in [[Assembly|assembly]] language on a [[PDP-10]]. It gained about 25% in speed over the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLISS BLISS] version on the same machine <ref>[[James Gillogly]] ('''1978'''). ''Performance Analysis of the Technology Chess Program''. Ph.D. thesis, CMU-CS-78-189, [[Carnegie Mellon University]], [http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/anon/usr/ftp/scan/CMU-CS-77-gillogly.pdf CMU-CS-77 pdf]</ref>. Tech 2 was runner-up at the [[ACM 1973]], with Tech also competing <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6cdeeb The eleventh ACM's North American Computer Chess Championship, Nashville, Tennessee October 26-28, 1980], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3.1980_11th_ACM_NACCC/The_Eleventh_ACMs_North_American_Computer_Chess_Championship.1980.062303015.sm.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]], see History of ACM events pp. 11</ref>, and further participated at the [[WCCC 1974]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm Stockholm] <ref>[[https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=445 Alan Baisley's ICGA Tournaments]</ref>. Alan Baisley transferred to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,_California Berkeley], where he became involved with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s counterculture] of the late 1960's and early 1970's. The word was that he died of a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_overdose drug overdose] while still a very young man <ref>[http://www.chess.com/blog/danheisman/ill-never-forget-nm-alan-baisley I'll Never Forget the Brilliant NM Alan Baisley] by [[Dan Heisman]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess.com Chess.com], June 06, 2013</ref>.
=Photos & Games=
==Robert Q==
{{Robert Q}}
[[File:RobertQAlanBaisley1967.JPG|none|border|text-bottom|560px]]
Carl Wagner and [[Alan Baisley]] (right) <ref>[[Richard Greenblatt]], [[Donald Eastlake]], [[Stephen D. Crocker]] ('''1967'''). ''The Greenblatt Chess Program''. Proceedings of the AfiPs Fall Joint Computer Conference, Vol. 31, pp. 808</ref> <ref>
[https://lichess.org/kyBnGoLK Carl Wagner vs Robert Q from lichess.org]</ref>
<pre>
[Event "Boylston Chess Club Tournament"]
[Site "YMCU, Boston"]
[Date "1967.01.21"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Carl Wagner"]
[Black "Robert Q"]
[Result "1-0"]
1.g3 e5 2.Nf3 e4 3.Nd4 Bc5 4.Nb3 Bb6 5.Bg2 Nf6 6.c4 d6 7.Nc3 Be6 8.d3 exd3
9.Bxb7 Nbd7 10.exd3 Rb8 11.Bg2 O-O 12.O-O Bg4 13.Qc2 Re8 14.d4 c5 15.Be3 cxd4
16.Nxd4 Ne5 17.h3 Bd7 18.b3 Bc5 19.Rad1 Qc8 20.Kh2 Ng6 21.Bg5 Re5 22.Bxf6 gxf6
23.Ne4 f5 24.Nf6+ Kg7 25.Nxd7 Qxd7 26.Nc6 Rbe8 27.Nxe5 Rxe5 28.Qc3 f6 29.Rd3 Re2
30.Rd2 Rxd2 31.Qxd2 Ne5 32.Rd1 Qc7 33.Bd5 Kg6 34.b4 Bb6 35.Qc2 Nc6 36.Be6 Nd4
37.Rxd4 Bxd4 38.Qxf5+ Kg7 39.Qg4+ Kh6 40.Qxd4 Qe7 41.Qh4+ Kg6 42.Bf5+ Kf7 43.Qxh7+
Kf8 44.Qh8+ Kf7 45.Qa8 Qc7 46.Qd5+ Kg7 47.Kg2 Qe7 48.h4 Kh6 49.g4 Kg7 50.h5 Qe2
51.h6+ Kf8 52.h7 Qxf2+ 53.Kxf2 Ke7 54.h8=Q a6 55.Qe6# 1-0
</pre>
==WCCC 1974==
[[File:Kaissa_Baisley_Donskoy.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|560px]]
[[Alan Baisley]] (left) faces [[Mikhail Donskoy]], Round 2 [[WCCC 1974]], [[Tech|Tech 2]] vs [[Kaissa]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbd92710 Kaissa at the 1st World Computer Chess Championship in Stockholm], Photo by [[Monroe Newborn]], [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref> <ref>[http://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/round.php?tournament=7&round=2&id=5 Stockholm 1974 - Chess - Round 2 - Game 5 (ICGA Tournaments)]</ref>
<pre>
[Event "WCCC 1974"]
[Site "Stockholm, Sweden"]
[Date "1974.08.06"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Tech 2"]
[Black "Kaissa"]
[Result "0-1"]
1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Nf6 3. Bb5+ Bd7 4. Bc4 Bg4 5. f3 Bc8 6. Nc3 Nbd7 7. Ne4 Ne5
8. Nxf6+ exf6 9. Qe2 Qe7 10. Bb5+ c6 11. dxc6 bxc6 12. Ba4 Ba6 13. Qe4 O-O-O
14. Ne2 Bxe2 15. Kxe2 Qd7 16. d3 Re8 17. Be3 Bd6 18. c3 Bb8 19. Bc2 Ng6
20. Qb4 Nf4+ 21. Kf2 Rxe3 22. Kxe3 Nd5+ 23. Ke2 Nxb4 24. cxb4 Qd4 25. Rab1 Re8+
26. Kf1 Qe3 27. d4 Qe2+ 28. Kg1 Qxc2 29. Kf1 Qxb1+ 30. Kf2 Qxb2+ 31. Kf1 Qe2+
32. Kg1 Qd1+ 33. Kf2 Re2# 0-1
</pre>
=External Links=
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=445 Alan Baisley's ICGA Tournaments]]
* [http://www.chess.com/blog/danheisman/ill-never-forget-nm-alan-baisley I'll Never Forget the Brilliant NM Alan Baisley] by [[Dan Heisman]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess.com Chess.com], June 06, 2013
=References=
<references />
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