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a Canadian computer scientist and senior software developer in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. As member if the [|Chinook] team, he wrote the proof tree manager code for the checkers solver. He is active member of //University of Alberta Computer Poker Research Group (UACPRG)//. Along with Nathan Sturtevant, Mesut Kirci, Jonathan Schaeffer, Mohammad Shafiei, Kevin Waugh, Richard Valenzano, and Mehdi Samadi, Neil Burch is co-author of the General Game Playing program //Maligne//.
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=Photos= Front: Paul Lu, Jonathan Schaeffer, Steve Sutphen ||
 * [[image:group_photo_cropped.JPG width="480" height="338" link="http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Echinook/authors/"]] ||
 * Chinook team:: Back: Yngvi Björnsson, Neil Burch, Rob Lake, Joe Culberson

=Selected Publications=

2000 ...

 * Jonathan Schaeffer, Yngvi Björnsson, Neil Burch, Rob Lake, Paul Lu, Steve Sutphen (**2003**). //Building the Checkers 10-Piece Endgame Databases.// Advances in Computer Games 10, [|pdf]
 * Darse Billings, Neil Burch, Aaron Davidson, Robert Holte, Jonathan Schaeffer, Terence Schauenberg, Duane Szafron (**2003**). //Approximating Game-Theoretic Optimal Strategies for Full-scale Poker//. IJCAI 2003, [|pdf]
 * Darse Billings, Aaron Davidson, Terence Schauenberg, Neil Burch, Michael Bowling, Robert Holte, Jonathan Schaeffer, Duane Szafron (**2004**). //[|Game-Tree Search with Adaptation in Stochastic Imperfect-Information Games]//. CG 2004
 * Jonathan Schaeffer, Yngvi Björnsson, Neil Burch, Akihiro Kishimoto, Martin Müller, Rob Lake, Paul Lu, Steve Sutphen (**2005**). //Solving Checkers//. IJCAI 2005
 * Jonathan Schaeffer, Neil Burch, Yngvi Björnsson, Akihiro Kishimoto, Martin Müller, Rob Lake, Paul Lu, Steve Sutphen (**2007**). //[|Checkers is Solved]//. [|Science], Vol. 317, no. 5844
 * Nathan Sturtevant, Ariel Felner, Max Barrer, Jonathan Schaeffer, Neil Burch (**2009**). //Memory-Based Heuristics for Explicit State Spaces//. IJCAI 2009, [|pdf]

2010 ...

 * Uzi Zahavi, Ariel Felner, Neil Burch, Robert Holte (**2014**). //Predicting the Performance of IDA* using Conditional Distributions//. [|arXiv:1401.3493v1]
 * Michael Bowling, Neil Burch, Michael Johanson, Oskari Tammelin (**2015**). //[|Heads-up limit hold'em poker is solved]//. [|Science], Vol. 347, No. 6218
 * Matej Moravčík, Martin Schmid, Neil Burch, Viliam Lisý, Dustin Morrill, Nolan Bard, Trevor Davis, Kevin Waugh, Michael Johanson, Michael Bowling (**2017**). //[|DeepStack: Expert-level artificial intelligence in heads-up no-limit poker]//. [|Science], Vol. 356, No. 6337

=External Links=
 * [|Neil Burch - Google Scholar Citations]

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