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'''Martin Bryant''',<br/>
a British computer scientist, and computer chess and games programmer. In the late 70s, while affiliated with the [[University of Manchester]] and after some first chess programming trials, he got reawakened when he discovered a chess program listing on the university mainframe, a [[CDC Cyber|CDC Cyber 72]], apparently the version of [[Chess (program)|Chess 3.5]] which won the [[ACM 1971]] <ref>[[Tony Harrington]] ('''1983'''). ''University Challenge - Martin Bryant and White Knight''. [[Personal Computer World]], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/publication_archive_1983.html August 1983], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/PCW_August_1983.pdf pdf] hosted by [[Mike Watters]]</ref>.
Inspired by that listing as well as [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn's]] book ''Computer Chess'' <ref>[[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1975'''). ''Computer Chess''. Academic Press</ref>, Martin wrote his own chess program in [[Pascal]], dubbed [[White Knight]]. After graduating, he started to port White Knight to [[6502]] [[Assembly]] for an [[Apple II]].
He played the [[European MCC 1981]] and soon became a professional chess and games programmer, also working for [[David Levy]] and [[Kevin O’Connell]] and their respective companies [[Philidor Software]] and [[Intelligent Software]].
In 1983, White Knight was bought by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC BBC] for the [[BBC Micro]] <ref>[[Alex Bell]] ('''1983'''). ''Chess for three gives the White Knight a winning gambit''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Micro_User The Micro User Magazine], December 1983</ref> <ref>[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/chess_computers_-_the_uk_story.html Chess Computers - The UK Story] from [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/index.html Chess Computer UK] by [[Mike Watters]]</ref>, and Martin soon started with his mighty '''Colossus''' brand programs [[Colossus Chess]], Colossus [[Checkers|Draughts]] and Colossus [[Backgammon]].
=Checkers=
'''Colossus Draughts''' won the [[2nd Computer Olympiad#Checkers|2nd Computer Olympiad]] in [[Checkers]] with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_%28draughts_player%29 Chinook] by [[Jonathan Schaeffer]] et al. competing as well. Colossus was well prepared, since Checkers expert Martin Bryant recognized a weak opening move by Chinook played against another program one round before - which nevertheless could not find the refutation and lost,
and added the winning refutation inside Colossus' opening book <ref>[[Jonathan Schaeffer]] ('''1997'''). ''One Jump Ahead''. 11. I Feel Like a Teenager Again, pp. 174</ref>. Martin Bryant later accepted the offer to trade Colossus' huge opening book for Chinook's six-piece databases and therefore helped Chinook to become ''The World Man-Machine Checkers Champion'', and subsequently the offer to join the Chinook development team <ref>[[Jonathan Schaeffer]], [[Rob Lake]], [[Paul Lu]], [[Martin Bryant]] ('''1996'''). ''[https://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/1208 Chinook: The World Man-Machine Checkers Champion]''. [[AAAI#AIMAG|AI Magazine]], Vol. 17, No. 1</ref>.
=Colossus Chess UCI=
In 2004, Martin Bryant started to work on a completely new version of Colossus Chess conforming to the [[UCI]] protocol <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=457095 Colossus Chess - Still life in the old horse] by [[Bryan Whitby]], [[CCC]], October 21, 2005</ref> .
=Photos=
[[FILE:Martin_Bryant_2.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|580px|link=http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/chess_computers_-_the_uk_story.html]]
Martin Bryant <ref>[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/chess_computers_-_the_uk_story.html Chess Computers - The UK Story] from [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/index.html Chess Computer UK] by [[Mike Watters]]</ref>
=Publications=
* [[Tony Harrington]] ('''1983'''). ''University Challenge - Martin Bryant and White Knight''. [[Personal Computer World]], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/publication_archive_1983.html August 1983], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/PCW_August_1983.pdf pdf] hosted by [[Mike Watters]]
* [[Alex Bell]] ('''1983'''). ''Chess for three gives the White Knight a winning gambit''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Micro_User The Micro User Magazine], December 1983
* [[Martin Bryant]] ('''1984'''). ''Chess software for home computers''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_and_Video_Games Computer & Video Games], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/publication_archive_1984.html January 1984], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/C_V_Games_Software_January_1984.pdf pdf] hosted by [[Mike Watters]]
* [[Tony Harrington]] ('''1984'''). ''Of might and men''. [http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/mags/pcn/top_lvl.html Personal Computer News], [http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/mags/pcn/cats/pcn086.html November 1984], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/PCW_November_1984.pdf pdf] hosted by [[Mike Watters]]
* [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], [[Rob Lake]], [[Paul Lu]], [[Martin Bryant]] ('''1996'''). ''[https://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/1208 Chinook: The World Man-Machine Checkers Champion]''. [[AAAI#AIMAG|AI Magazine]], Vol. 17, No. 1
=Forum Posts=
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=230247 Interview with Martin Bryant, the Man behind Colossus] by [[Fernando Villegas]], [[CCC]], May 18, 2002
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=362202 isn't there a new version of colossus ?] by [[Thorsten Czub]], [[CCC]], April 29, 2004
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16616 Colossus 2007d Available] by [[Martin Bryant]], [[CCC]], September 22, 2007
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22015 64-bit PGO problem?] by [[Martin Bryant]], [[CCC]], June 27, 2008
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22977 Correlation Experiment Results] by [[Martin Bryant]], [[CCC]], August 13, 2008
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23563 Colossus 2008a available] by [[Martin Bryant]], [[CCC]], September 07, 2008
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23914 Colossus 2008b available] by [[Martin Bryant]], [[CCC]], September 23, 2008
=External Links=
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20160622190238/http://www.colossusgames.co.uk:80/home.htm Colossus Home], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine Wayback Machine]
: [http://web.archive.org/web/20160622190141/http://www.colossusgames.co.uk:80/author/martinbryant.htm Colossus - Author]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=345 Martin Bryant's ICGA Tournaments]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Bryant_(programmer) Martin Bryant from Wikipedia]
* [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/chess_computers_-_the_uk_story.html Chess Computers - The UK Story] from [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/index.html Chess Computer UK] by [[Mike Watters]]
* [http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Levy,_David Interview] with [[David Levy]] from [http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Hauptseite_En schach-computer wiki]
=References=
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'''[[People|Up one level]]'''
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[[FILE:martinbryant.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20160622190141/http://www.colossusgames.co.uk:80/author/martinbryant.htm
| Martin Bryant <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20160622190141/http://www.colossusgames.co.uk:80/author/martinbryant.htm Colossus - Author], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine Wayback Machine]</ref>
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'''Martin Bryant''',<br/>
a British computer scientist, and computer chess and games programmer. In the late 70s, while affiliated with the [[University of Manchester]] and after some first chess programming trials, he got reawakened when he discovered a chess program listing on the university mainframe, a [[CDC Cyber|CDC Cyber 72]], apparently the version of [[Chess (program)|Chess 3.5]] which won the [[ACM 1971]] <ref>[[Tony Harrington]] ('''1983'''). ''University Challenge - Martin Bryant and White Knight''. [[Personal Computer World]], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/publication_archive_1983.html August 1983], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/PCW_August_1983.pdf pdf] hosted by [[Mike Watters]]</ref>.
Inspired by that listing as well as [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn's]] book ''Computer Chess'' <ref>[[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1975'''). ''Computer Chess''. Academic Press</ref>, Martin wrote his own chess program in [[Pascal]], dubbed [[White Knight]]. After graduating, he started to port White Knight to [[6502]] [[Assembly]] for an [[Apple II]].
He played the [[European MCC 1981]] and soon became a professional chess and games programmer, also working for [[David Levy]] and [[Kevin O’Connell]] and their respective companies [[Philidor Software]] and [[Intelligent Software]].
In 1983, White Knight was bought by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC BBC] for the [[BBC Micro]] <ref>[[Alex Bell]] ('''1983'''). ''Chess for three gives the White Knight a winning gambit''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Micro_User The Micro User Magazine], December 1983</ref> <ref>[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/chess_computers_-_the_uk_story.html Chess Computers - The UK Story] from [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/index.html Chess Computer UK] by [[Mike Watters]]</ref>, and Martin soon started with his mighty '''Colossus''' brand programs [[Colossus Chess]], Colossus [[Checkers|Draughts]] and Colossus [[Backgammon]].
=Checkers=
'''Colossus Draughts''' won the [[2nd Computer Olympiad#Checkers|2nd Computer Olympiad]] in [[Checkers]] with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_%28draughts_player%29 Chinook] by [[Jonathan Schaeffer]] et al. competing as well. Colossus was well prepared, since Checkers expert Martin Bryant recognized a weak opening move by Chinook played against another program one round before - which nevertheless could not find the refutation and lost,
and added the winning refutation inside Colossus' opening book <ref>[[Jonathan Schaeffer]] ('''1997'''). ''One Jump Ahead''. 11. I Feel Like a Teenager Again, pp. 174</ref>. Martin Bryant later accepted the offer to trade Colossus' huge opening book for Chinook's six-piece databases and therefore helped Chinook to become ''The World Man-Machine Checkers Champion'', and subsequently the offer to join the Chinook development team <ref>[[Jonathan Schaeffer]], [[Rob Lake]], [[Paul Lu]], [[Martin Bryant]] ('''1996'''). ''[https://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/1208 Chinook: The World Man-Machine Checkers Champion]''. [[AAAI#AIMAG|AI Magazine]], Vol. 17, No. 1</ref>.
=Colossus Chess UCI=
In 2004, Martin Bryant started to work on a completely new version of Colossus Chess conforming to the [[UCI]] protocol <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=457095 Colossus Chess - Still life in the old horse] by [[Bryan Whitby]], [[CCC]], October 21, 2005</ref> .
=Photos=
[[FILE:Martin_Bryant_2.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|580px|link=http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/chess_computers_-_the_uk_story.html]]
Martin Bryant <ref>[http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/chess_computers_-_the_uk_story.html Chess Computers - The UK Story] from [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/index.html Chess Computer UK] by [[Mike Watters]]</ref>
=Publications=
* [[Tony Harrington]] ('''1983'''). ''University Challenge - Martin Bryant and White Knight''. [[Personal Computer World]], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/publication_archive_1983.html August 1983], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/PCW_August_1983.pdf pdf] hosted by [[Mike Watters]]
* [[Alex Bell]] ('''1983'''). ''Chess for three gives the White Knight a winning gambit''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Micro_User The Micro User Magazine], December 1983
* [[Martin Bryant]] ('''1984'''). ''Chess software for home computers''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_and_Video_Games Computer & Video Games], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/publication_archive_1984.html January 1984], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/C_V_Games_Software_January_1984.pdf pdf] hosted by [[Mike Watters]]
* [[Tony Harrington]] ('''1984'''). ''Of might and men''. [http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/mags/pcn/top_lvl.html Personal Computer News], [http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/mags/pcn/cats/pcn086.html November 1984], [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/PCW_November_1984.pdf pdf] hosted by [[Mike Watters]]
* [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], [[Rob Lake]], [[Paul Lu]], [[Martin Bryant]] ('''1996'''). ''[https://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/1208 Chinook: The World Man-Machine Checkers Champion]''. [[AAAI#AIMAG|AI Magazine]], Vol. 17, No. 1
=Forum Posts=
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=230247 Interview with Martin Bryant, the Man behind Colossus] by [[Fernando Villegas]], [[CCC]], May 18, 2002
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=362202 isn't there a new version of colossus ?] by [[Thorsten Czub]], [[CCC]], April 29, 2004
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16616 Colossus 2007d Available] by [[Martin Bryant]], [[CCC]], September 22, 2007
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22015 64-bit PGO problem?] by [[Martin Bryant]], [[CCC]], June 27, 2008
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22977 Correlation Experiment Results] by [[Martin Bryant]], [[CCC]], August 13, 2008
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23563 Colossus 2008a available] by [[Martin Bryant]], [[CCC]], September 07, 2008
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23914 Colossus 2008b available] by [[Martin Bryant]], [[CCC]], September 23, 2008
=External Links=
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20160622190238/http://www.colossusgames.co.uk:80/home.htm Colossus Home], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine Wayback Machine]
: [http://web.archive.org/web/20160622190141/http://www.colossusgames.co.uk:80/author/martinbryant.htm Colossus - Author]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=345 Martin Bryant's ICGA Tournaments]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Bryant_(programmer) Martin Bryant from Wikipedia]
* [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/chess_computers_-_the_uk_story.html Chess Computers - The UK Story] from [http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/index.html Chess Computer UK] by [[Mike Watters]]
* [http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Levy,_David Interview] with [[David Levy]] from [http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Hauptseite_En schach-computer wiki]
=References=
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'''[[People|Up one level]]'''
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