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a British computer scientist from the Department of Computing at the [|University of Bradford], [|Bradford], [|England]. His research interests covers search algorithms and the synthesis of endgame knowledge by recursive optimisation.
 * Kevin P. Coplan**,

=C*= In his 1982 contribution //A Special-Purpose Machine for an Improved Search Algorithm for Deep Chess Combinations//, Coplan introduced the C* algorithm , to utilize Null Window searches of Fail-Soft Alpha-Beta in a bisection scheme.

=Selected Publications=
 * Kevin Coplan (**1982**). //A Special-Purpose Machine for an Improved Search Algorithm for Deep Chess Combinations//. Advances in Computer Chess 3
 * Kevin Coplan (**1998**). //Synthesis of Chess and Chess-like Endgames by Recursive Optimisation//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 21, No. 3
 * Kevin Coplan (**2001**). //[|Synthesis of Chess and Chess-like Endgames: A Proof of Correctness]//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 1
 * Kevin Coplan (**2001**). //Synthesis of Chess-like Endgames: Towards a Proof of Correctness//. Advances in Computer Games 9

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