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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>.

* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=445 Alan Baisley's ICGA Tournaments]]