Hans Berliner, a former world champion of correspondence chess became a pioneering developer of game-playing computers, died on Friday, January 13 in Riviera Beach, Florida. He was 87.

Postal chess great Hans Berliner, who passed away last month in Florida at the age of 87, grew up here and got his start at the fabled Washington Chess Divan. He captured five city championships ...

Once upon a time I interviewed Dr. Hans Berliner. Berliner was a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon and also a world champion at correspondence chess. Combining these two interests, he ...