Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Hyatt
The associate professor rank is totally irrelevant, but his citation record https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Rg4jLF0AAAAJ is probably not enough for . However, as an author of both Crafty and Cray Blitz and as a very well known chess programmer, I believe he passes  #1 ("regarded as an important figure"), #2 ("known for originating a significant new concept", in this case rotated bitboards, a major feature of both programs), #3 ("created or played a major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work or collective body of work", namely Crafty and Cray Blitz; note that Cray Blitz is the subject of multiple publications by people who were independent from its creation including "Cray Blitz and Hitech: Parallel Search and Parallel Evaluation", Newborn, 1997, and "Cray Blitz-A Computer Chess Playing Program", Marsland, 1985, as well as many news pieces about its individual performances such as https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/12/arts/chess-computers-tie-for-the-championship.html in the NYT; Crafty is not as heavily covered by independent sources but there exists at least "Performance Characterization of Parallel Game-tree Search Application Crafty" by Ying et al, and "Tuning evaluation functions by maximizing concordance", Gomboc, 2005), and plausibly #4 ("been a substantial part of a significant exhibition", namely the participation of these programs in major computer chess competitions). If he had only one notable program a merge might have made sense per  but not when there are two. This seems part and parcel with the recent Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International Computer Games Association (successful) and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ICGA Journal (unsuccessful) as an effort to erase from Wikipedia the history of computer chess, a significant subject with a significant history
— User:David, 07:25, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:PROF||WP:CREATIVE||WP:BIO1E (Wikipedia:Notability)