Editing Computer chess (section)

== Notable theorists ==
Well-known computer chess theorists include:

* [[Georgy Adelson-Velsky]], a Soviet and Israeli mathematician and computer scientist
* [[Hans Berliner]], American computer scientist and world correspondence chess champion, design supervisor of HiTech (1988)
* [[Mikhail Botvinnik]], Soviet electrical engineer and world chess champion, wrote ''Pioneer''
* [[Alexander Brudno]], Russian computer scientist, first elaborated the alphabeta pruning algorithm
* [[Feng-hsiung Hsu]], the lead developer of [[Deep Blue (chess computer)|Deep Blue]] (1986–97) 
* [[Robert Hyatt]] developed [[Cray Blitz]] and [[Crafty]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cis.uab.edu/info/faculty/hyatt/hyatt.html |title=Dr. Robert Hyatt's home page |publisher=Cis.uab.edu |date=2004-02-01 |access-date=2010-04-03}}</ref> 
* [[Danny Kopec]], American Professor or Computer Science and International Chess Master, developed Kopec-Bratko test
* [[Alexander Kronrod]], Soviet computer scientist and mathematician
* [[Monroe Newborn]], chairman of the computer chess committee for the Association for Computing Machinery
* [[Claude E. Shannon]], American computer scientist and mathematician
* [[Alan Turing]], English computer scientist and mathematician