Dr. Danny Kopec is an international chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master, author, and computer science

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

 professor at Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York, United States.Established in 1930 by the New York City Board of Higher Education, the College had its beginnings as the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College and the City College of New...

. He graduated from Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

 in the class of 1975. Kopec later received a PhD in Machine Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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.

Chess

Kopec has achieved the FIDE

Fédération Internationale des Échecs

The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world and acts as the governing body of international chess competition. It is usually referred to as FIDE , its French acronym.FIDE...

 International Master title and has been a semi-professional chess player since 1976. He lived in Canada for several years during the 1980s, and competed there with success. He has written numerous books on the subject of chess, produced eight chess instructional DVDs, and has run chess camps since 1994. Kopec has also worked to promote his chess opening, "The Kopec System" (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bd3!?).

Kopec has published notable academic pieces in the areas of artificial intelligence, machine error reduction, intelligent tutoring systems, and computer education.

, his FIDE rating is 2334.

Partial chess bibliography

• (1980) Best Games Of The Young Grandmasters, with Craig Pritchett (non-fiction chess), publisher Bell and Howell, London
• (1985) Master Chess: A Course in 21 Lessons (non-fiction chess)
• (1997) Practical Middlegame Techniques with Rudy Blumenfeld (non-fiction chess)
• (1998) Test, Evaluate, and Improve your Chess co-author Hal Terrie (non-fiction chess)
• (2002) Chess World Title Contenders and Their Styles co-author Craig Pritchett
  Craig Pritchett
  Craig W Pritchett is a Scottish chess International Master who has written several chess books. He has represented Scotland nine times in Chess Olympiads from 1966–1990. He has won the Scottish Chess Championships on two occasions , and played in two Zonal tournaments...
  
   (non-fiction chess)
• (2003) Mastering the Sicilian (non-fiction chess)
• (2004) Winning the Won Game co-author Ľubomír Ftáčnik
  Lubomir Ftácnik
  Ľubomír Ftáčnik is a Slovak chess player and a former European Junior Champion.He became European Junior Champion in 1976/77 and was awarded the International Master title shortly after...
  
  (non-fiction chess)

External links

• Academic Website on Brooklyn College
• Kopec Chess Services: KopecChess.com