Hans Jack Berliner was an American chess player and computer scientist, born in 1929 and died in 2017. He was the World Correspondence Chess Champion from 1965 to 1968 and a Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess. Berliner was a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, where he directed the construction of the chess computer HiTech, and he was also a published chess writer. He first published the B* search algorithm, a relative of the A* search algorithm, in 1979.
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First published by Hans Berliner in 1979
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