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a French computer scientist and computer chess and game programmer. He introduced the [[NegaC*]] search algorithm as a [[NegaMaxNegamax]] implementation of [[Kevin Coplan|Kevin Coplan's]] '''C'''*. He also created the [[ABDADA]] non-synchronized, distributed search algorithm, apparently used in [[Frenchess]]. His 1995 Ph.D. thesis in French, ''Programmes d'Échecs de Championnat: Architecture Logicielle Synthèse de Fonctions d'Évaluations, Parallélisme de Recherche'', covers [[History|history]] of computer chess, a broad range of [[Search|search]] algorithms and [[Evaluation|evaluation]], audited beside others by [[Tony Marsland]] and [[Jacques Pitrat]].