Berliner Hans (27.01.1929-13.012017)

American Correspondence Grandmaster (1968). He has been a principal research computer scientist in computer science at Carnegie-Mellon University since 1974. He was the first US Correspondence Grandmaster.
In 1979 he designed a backgammon-playing computer program that beat the world backgammon champion. World Correspondence Chess Champion from 1968-1972 and was inducted into the US Chess Hall of Fame in 1990. He jointly developed the chess machine/program Hitech.

Berliner currently lives in Florida, and has worked to help develop computer chess programs in his later years.
Author of The system: A World Champion’s Approach to Chess in 1999.