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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 (programProgram)|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]].
