Operator

Erdogan Günes in action, Blitz WCCC 2015 ¹

Operator,
a member or representant of a chess engine team, who operates the engine during an over the board tournament - most often as engine author (not mentioned here as operator) or opening book author. The operator has to execute the program's move on an external chess board, to press the external chess clock, and to enter opponent's move into his engine.

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