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SM Michael Mulyar tied for first place in the 1999 US Open.
Jim Hammersmith - 1999 National Open Reserve Champion
Boulder IM Michael Valvo was the arbiter in the February 1996 match between World Champion Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue in Philadelphia.
SM David Gliksman tied for second place in the 1995 US Open.
Damian Baumgardner - 1991 G/60 National Amatuer co-champion
Mark Schlagenhauf - 1984 US Amatuer Champion
Don Sutherland won the 1975 Armed Forces Championship.
Hans Berliner (1959 Colorado Champion) was on the US Team in the 1952 FIDE Olypiad in Helsinki. He was the first American citizen to win the World Correspondence Chess Championship which began in 1959, with the finals starting in 1965. Dr. Berliner's game against Y. Estrin was voted the best game in the history of correspondence chess.. August 1968 Chess Life magazine cover.. His 87.5% winning percentage en route to the World Correspondence Championship is a remarkable record. Dr. Hans J. Berliner has been a Principal Research Computer Scientist in Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University since 1974. In 1979 he designed a backgammon-playing computer program that beat the World Backgammon Champion. He was World Correspondence Chess Champion 1968-1972 and was inducted into the US Chess Hall of Fame in 1990. He is a member of numerous editorial boards for journals in AI and he is a Fellow in the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
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