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was an American computer scientist, associate professor at the [|Brooklyn College], [|international chess master], chess and computer chess writer and assistant tournament director and reporter of various ACM North American Computer Chess Championships , chess programmer and Opening Book Author. Along with Larry Harris et al., Danny Kopec was co-author of Dartmouth CP, competing the ACM 1973.
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 * [[image:DannyKopec.jpg link="http://www.chessville.com/instruction/DannyKopec/TestEvaluateandImproveYourChess.htm"]] ||~  || **Danny Kopec**, (February 28, 1954 – June 12, 2016 )

In 1975 Kopec graduated from Dartmouth College and later wrote his Ph.D. in Machine Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh, Thesis: //Human and Machine Representations of Knowledge//, supervisor Donald Michie. In 1982 Danny Kopec and Ivan Bratko designed the Bratko-Kopec Test.

Danny Kopec died on June 12, 2016 from [|pancreatic cancer]. || toc =Photos=
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=Chess Endgames= Quote by Maarten van Emden in //I remember Donald Michie// :

=Selected Publications=

1977 ...

 * Danny Kopec (**1977**). //Recent developments in computer chess//. Firbush News 7 Edinburgh: Machine Intelligence Research Unit, University of Edinburgh (ed. Donald Michie), [|pdf]
 * Ivan Bratko, Danny Kopec, Donald Michie (**1978**). //Pattern-Based Representation of Chess Endgame Knowledge.// [|The Computer Journal, Vol. 21, No. 2], pp. 149-153. [|pdf]
 * Danny Kopec (**1979**). //Rook v knight by Computer. Research// Memorandom MIP-R-125, Machine Intelligence Research Unit, University of Edinburgh. Also published in Chess (1983). Vol. 47, Nos. 895-896, pp. 288-295. Sutton Coldfield, England. [|pdf]

1980 ...

 * Danny Kopec, Tim Niblett (**1980**). //How Hard is the Play of the King-Rook-King-Knight Ending?// Advances in Computer Chess 2, [|pdf]
 * Ivan Bratko, Danny Kopec (**1982**). //A Test for Comparison of Human and Computer Performance in Chess//. Advances in Computer Chess 3, [|pdf]
 * Danny Kopec, Ivan Bratko (**1982**). //**The Bratko-Kopec experiment**: a comparison of human and computer performance in chess//. Advances in Computer Chess 3
 * Danny Kopec, Donald Michie (**1983**). //Mismatch between machine representations and human concepts: dangers and remedies//. FAST series No. 9 report. European Community, Brussels. [|pdf]
 * Danny Kopec, Enrique Irazoqui, Ivan Bratko (**1983**). //The Updated Bratko-Kopec Test.// Computer Chess Digest Annual pp. 45-63
 * Danny Kopec (**1983**). //Human and Machine Representations of Knowledge//. Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh, supervisor: Donald Michie
 * Danny Kopec (**1984**). //Report from New York - The 4th World Computer Chess Championship//. Computer Chess Digest Annual 1984 » WCCC 1983
 * Danny Kopec (**1984**). //The Canadian Computer Chess Invitational Championship (CCCIC) 1984//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 3
 * Danny Kopec, Monroe Newborn (**1985**). //ACM's Fifteenth North American Computer Chess Championship//. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 28, No. 7, reprinted in [|The Sixteenth ACM North American Computer Chess Championship, Denver Colorado, October 13-15, 1985], [|pdf] from The Computer History Museum
 * Danny Kopec (**1985**). //Chess Computers - A critical descriptive Analysis of the currently available commercial Chess Computers//. Abacus Vol. 2 No. 4, Editor-shortened version as [|pdf], [|pdf] » Super Constellation, Elite
 * Danny Kopec, Monroe Newborn, Winston Yu (**1986**). //Experiments in Chess Cognition.// Advances in Computer Chess 4, [|pdf]
 * Danny Kopec, Monty Newborn (**1986**). //Belle and Mephisto Dallas Capture Computer Chess Title at the FJCC//. reprinted in [|The ACM's Eighteenth North American Computer Chess Championship] from The Computer History Museum, [|pdf]
 * Monty Newborn, Danny Kopec (**1988**). //Results of ACM's Eighteenth Computer Chess Championship//.  Communications of the ACM, Vol. 31, No. 8, [|pdf]
 * Danny Kopec, Mike Valvo (**1988**). //Report on The ACM 19th North American Computer-Chess Championship//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 4 » ACM 1988
 * Danny Kopec, Ed Northam, David Podber, Yehya Fouda (**1989**). //The Role of Connectivity in Chess//. Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search, [|pdf]
 * Monty Newborn, Danny Kopec (**1989**). //Results of The Nineteenth ACM North American Computer Chess Championship//. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 32, No. 10, [|pdf], reprinted in [|The Twentieth ACM North American Computer Chess Championship] from The Computer History Museum,  [|pdf]

1990 ...

 * Danny Kopec (**1990**). //Advances in Man-Machine Play.// Computers, Chess, and Cognition, pp. 9-32, [|pdf]
 * Monroe Newborn, Danny Kopec (**1990**). //The Twentieth ACM North American Computer Chess Championship//. in [|The 21st Annual ACM North American Computer Chess Championship] from The Computer History Museum, [|pdf] » ACM 1989
 * Monty Newborn, Danny Kopec (**1991**). //[|The 21st ACM North American Computer Chess Championship]//. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 34, No. 11, [|online] » ACM 1990
 * Hans Berliner, Danny Kopec, Ed Northam (**1991**). //A taxonomy of concepts for evaluating chess strength: examples from two difficult categories.// Advances in Computer Chess 6, [|pdf]
 * Danny Kopec, Monroe Newborn, Michael Valvo (**1992**). //The 22d Annual ACM International Chess Championship//. in [|The 23rd ACM International Computer Chess Championship] from The Computer History Museum, [|pdf] » ACM 1991
 * Danny Kopec, Michael Valvo (**1993**). //The 23rd ACM International Computer-Chess Championship.// ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1 » ACM 1993
 * Shawn Benn, Danny Kopec (**1993**). //The Bratko-Kopec Test Recalibrated.// ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3, [|pdf]
 * Christopher Chabris, Danny Kopec (**1993**). //The 4th Harvard Cup Human versus Computer Chess Challange//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 4 » Harvard Cup 1993
 * Danny Kopec, Monroe Newborn, Michael Valvo (**1994**). //The 23rd ACM NACCC in Indianapolis//. in [|The 24th ACM International Computer Chess Championship] from The Computer History Museum, [|pdf] » ACM 1993
 * Danny Kopec (**1994**). //The Fifth Harvard Cup Human Versus Computer Intel Chess Challenge//. [|pdf]
 * Christopher Chabris, Danny Kopec (**1994**). //Report on the Fifth Harvard Cup Human versus Computer Intel Chess Challenge//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 17, No. 4 » Harvard Cup 1994
 * Danny Kopec, Hal Terrie (**1998**). //Test, Evaluate, and Improve your Chess//. 1st Edition

2000 ...

 * Danny Kopec, Hal Terrie (**2003**). //Test, Evaluate, and Improve your Chess//. 2nd Edition
 * Danny Kopec, Daniel Cox, Tony Marsland (**2004**). //Chapter 63: Search//. in The Computer Science and Engineering Handbook, 2nd Edition, [|Allen B. Tucker] (editor), [|CRC Press], 2004, 63-1 to 63-26. [|pdf (Draft 2003)]
 * Jill Cirasella, Danny Kopec (**2006**). //The History of Computer Games//. [|pdf]

2010 ...

 * [|Stephen Lucci], Danny Kopec (**2011**). //[|Artificial Intelligence in the 21st Century]//. Mercury Learning and Information
 * Danny Kopec, Hal Terrie (**2013**). //[|Test, Evaluate, and Improve your Chess: A Knowledge-Based Approach]//. 3rd Edition, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, [|Barnes & Noble], [|NIC], [|Schach Niggemann]
 * Danny Kopec, Shweta Shetty, [|Christopher Pileggi] (**2014**). //[|Artificial Intelligence Problems and Their Solutions]//. Mercury Learning and Information

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 * [|Danny Kopec from Wikipedia]
 * [|Kopec Chess Services]
 * [|About International Master Dr. Danny Kopec]
 * [|Danny Kopec's Academic Resume (Brooklyn College)]
 * [|The Kopec System KidsChess]
 * [|Test, Evaluate and Improve Your Chess, a Knowledge-Based Approach] by IM Danny Kopec and [|Hal Terrie]
 * Danny Kopec - How to Visualize Chess Combinations Promo, [|YouTube] Video » Tactics, Combination, Strategy

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