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'''[[Home]] * [[People]] * Robert Hyatt'''
'''Robert Morgan (Bob) Hyatt''', [[File:Hyatt.jpg|thumb|right|Robert Hyatt<ref>Image from [[http://www.cis.uab.edu/hyatt|Dr. Robert Hyatt's UAB homepage]] (dead link)</ref>]]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>.
His engine [[Crafty]] was the strongest [[Open Source Engines|open source]] engine for many years in the 90's and early 00's. He was primary author of [[Blitz]] and [[Cray Blitz]], the two-time winner of the [[World Computer Chess Championship]], the [[WCCC 1983]] and the [[WCCC 1986]]. Beside research and publications on parallel search, [[Transposition Table|transposition table]], [[Time Management|time management]] and [[Book Learning|book learning]], Bob is inventor of [[Rotated Bitboards|rotated bitboards]]. He is active poster in [[Computer Chess Forums]], served as moderator of [[CCC]], and as member of the [[Who's Who|Secretariat]] of [[ICGA Investigations]].
