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Neil Burch,
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 ^[1]. 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 ^[2].

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Chinook team:: Back: Yngvi Björnsson, Neil Burch, Rob Lake, Joe Culberson Front: Paul Lu, Jonathan Schaeffer, Steve Sutphen [3]

Selected Publications

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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

References

1. ^ Authors - Chinook - World Man-Machine Checkers Champion
2. ^ GIGA GGP Competition 2009 - Overview
3. ^ Authors - Chinook - World Man-Machine Checkers Champion
4. ^ DBLP: Neil Burch
5. ^ Neil Burch from Microsoft Academic Search

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