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'''[[Main Page|Home]] * [[People]] * Robert Hyatt'''
an American computer scientist, computer chess researcher, chess programmer, acknowledged computer chess authority, and associate professor at Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, [[University of Alabama at Birmingham]], since September 2016 officially retired from UAB <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61289&start=2 Re: Around Crafty dev. ...] by Robert Hyatt, [[CCC]], September 01, 2016</ref> . Bob Hyatt is one of the most active researchers in computer chess, being involved from 1968 until the present. He holds a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Science Master of Science] from [[University of Southern Mississippi]] in 1983 with a thesis on [[Cray Blitz]] <ref>Robert Hyatt ('''1983'''). ''Cray Blitz - A Computer Chess Playing Program''. Master's Thesis, [[University of Southern Mississippi]]</ref> , and a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph.D. Ph.D.] from [[University of Alabama at Birmingham|UAB]] in 1988 on the topic of [[Parallel Search|parallel search]] <ref>Robert Hyatt ('''1988'''). ''A High-Performance Parallel Algorithm to Search Depth-First Game Trees''. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, [[University of Alabama at Birmingham]]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf [ICGA Journal#RefDB|ICGA Reference Database] (pdf)]</ref> <ref>[http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/h/Hyatt:Robert_M=.html DBLP: Robert M. Hyatt]</ref>
==1980 ...==
* Robert Hyatt ('''1980'''). ''A Southern Blitz''. [[Personal Computing#4_6|Personal Computing, Vol. 4, No. 6]], pp. 93 » [[Blitz]]
* Robert Hyatt ('''2014'''). ''A Solution to Short PVs Caused by Exact Hash Matches''. [[ICGA Journal#37_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 37, No. 3]] » [[Transposition Table]], [[Principal Variation#SeparateTT|Separate TT for the PV]]
* [[Monroe Newborn]], Robert Hyatt ('''2014'''). ''Computer Chess Endgame Play with Pawns: Then and Now''. [[ICGA Journal#37_4|ICGA Journal, Vol. 37, No. 4]] » [[Peasant]], [[Crafty]]
==2020 ...==
* [[Robert Hyatt]] ('''2020'''). ''The history of BLITZ/CRAY-BLITZ/CRAFTY''. [[ICGA Journal#42_23|ICGA Journal, Vol. 42, Nos. 2-3]] » [[Blitz]], [[Cray Blitz]], [[Crafty]]
=Forum Posts=
* [http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=253688 Re: ICC Connection Closings ???] by Robert Hyatt, [[CCC]], September 23, 2002
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=140141&t=16002 Re: BitBoard Tests Magic v Non-Rotated 32 Bits v 64 Bits] by Robert Hyatt, [[CCC]], August 25, 2007 » [[Magic Bitboards]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=19837 compact bitboard move generator] by [[Robert Hyatt]], [[CCC]], February 25, 2008 » [[Bitboard Serialization]], [[Move Generation]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=220004&t=23894 Re: Lemming Poll] by Robert Hyatt, [[CCC]], September 22, 2008 » [[Tapered Eval]], [[LearningLemming]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29798 copy/make vs make/unmake test results] by Robert Hyatt, [[CCC]], September 19, 2009 » [[Unmake Move]] vs. [[Copy-Make]]
* [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=55168 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Robert Hyatt]
* [http://www.rebel.nl/authors.htm Meet the Authors] by [[Ed Schroder|Ed Schröder]]
=References=
