Danny Kopec

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Daniel "Danny" Kopec [ kɔpək ] (* 28. February 1954 in Kfar Saba , Israel ; † 12. June 2016 in New York City ) was an American chess player and computer science - Professor .

Life

After his training at Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire) and research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Donald Michie from 1976, he received his Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy) at the Scottish University of Edinburgh with his thesis Human and Machine Representations of Knowledge ( German  "Human and machine representations of knowledge" ). He then taught AI and programming languages at the University of Maine in Orono (Maine) .

He was a chess trainer and author of numerous publications on AI , intelligent teaching systems, chess and computer chess . In addition, he designed his own opening system, the Kopec system , a variant in the Sicilian Defense , marked (after 1. e2 – e4 c7 – c5 2. Ng1 – f3 d7 – d6) by 3. Bf1 – d3!?. Together with the Slovenian computer scientist Ivan Bratko (* 1946), he developed the Bratko-Kopec test in 1982 , which was a de facto standard for testing chess programs in the 1980s . Kopec won the Scottish Individual Championship in 1980. In the British Four Nations Chess League he played from 1997 to 1999 for the Barbican Chess Club , with which he also took part in the European Club Cup in 1998 .

Danny Kopec died at the age of 62. He left behind his wife Sylvia, son David, sister Patinka and stepson Oliver.

Publications (selection)

  • Winning the Won Game with Ľubomír Ftáčnik 2004
  • Mastering the Sicilian 2003
  • Chess World Title Contenders and Their Styles with Craig Pritchett 2002
  • Test, Evaluate, and Improve your Chess with Hal Terrie 1998
  • Practical Middlegame Techniques with Rudy Blumenfeld 1997
  • Master Chess - A Course in 21 Lessons 1985
  • Best Games Of The Young Grandmasters with Craig Pritchett, Bell and Howell, London 1980

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Danny Kopec at chessgames.com, accessed December 5, 2017
  2. ^ Danny Kopec: Human and Machine Representations of Knowledge. University of Edinburgh 1982 PDF; 8.2 MB. Accessed December 5, 2017
  3. ^ Danny Kopec: Chess Computers - A critical descriptive analysis of the currently available commercial chess computers. PDF; 1.4 MB p. 1.
  4. ↑ Overview at Brooklyn College, accessed December 5, 2017
  5. ↑ Scottish Champions. In: Chess Scotland. Retrieved January 8, 2019 .
  6. ↑ OlimpBase :: Four Nations Chess League :: Danny Kopec. In: OlimpBase. Retrieved January 8, 2019 .
  7. ↑ OlimpBase :: European Men's Chess Club Cup :: Danny Kopec. In: OlimpBase. Retrieved January 8, 2019 .
  8. ↑ IM Daniel Kopec dies at 62 (English) from ChessBase accessed on December 5, 2017
  9. ↑ Obituary (English) at Legacy.com, accessed December 5, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Kopec, Danny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kopec, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chess player and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Kfar Saba
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 2016
Place of death New York City