Julio+Kaplan

an Argentinean born, Puerto Rican chess player and [|International Master], [|World Junior Chess Champion] in 1967, computer scientist, chess programmer and founder and CEO of Heuristic Software. Soon after winning the World Junior Chess Championship in 1967, Kaplan went to the United States to study Mathematics and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley.
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 * [[image:kaplan.jpg link="http://www.p4r.org.ar/biografias/kaplan.htm"]] ||~  || **Julio Argentino Kaplan Pera**, (born July 25, 1950 )

During the late 70s, Julio Kaplan worked with Larry Wagner at [|Atari] on Computer Chess aka Video Chess. In 1981, he started to write chess programs for SciSys/Saitek's dedicated chess computers, and founded his own company Heuristic Software. His programs Superstar and Turbostar (with co-author Craig Barnes) competed at the WMCCC 1983 and WMCCC 1985 respectively. In 1990, when Kaplan abandoned the cooperation with Saitek, and started to work with Larry Kaufman and Don Dailey on Heuristic Alpha which later evolved to Socrates and Kasparov's Gambit. || toc =Photos= =Publications=
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 * The World Junior Chess Champion from Puerto Rico at the 1967/68 [|Hastings Christmas tournament]  ||
 * Julio Kaplan (**1980**). //[|How To Get The Most From Your Chess Computer]//. RHM Press, ISBN-13: 978-0890580462, from [|amazon.com]
 * [|Michael Ciraolo] (**1985**). //[|Computer CHESS Programming]//. [|Antic Vol. 4, No. 3]

=External Links=
 * [|Julio Kaplan from Wikipedia]
 * [|Julio Kaplan's ICGA Tournaments]
 * [|Kaplan, Julio] from [|Schachcomputer.info - Wiki] (German)
 * [|The chess games of Julio P Kaplan] from [|chessgames.com]
 * [|Interview with Julio P Kaplan], July 8, 2006 (Spanish), [|translated to English] by [|Google Translate]
 * [|THE CHAMPION BECOME PROGRAMMER] Interview by Pierre Nolot, 1985, [|Translated to English]

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