Jack O’Keefe

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Jack O’Keefe, (March 25, 1930 - July 31, 2008 ) was an American chess player and chess historian from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and 1967 Michigan Open State Champion.

=CHAOS= In the 70s and early 80s, along with Mike Alexander, Victor Berman, Mark Hersey and Fred Swartz, Jack O’Keefe was team member and chess consultant of the program CHAOS, at that time affiliated with the Computing Center of the University of Michigan. CHAOS was one of the strongest programs of its time, using an unique, knowledge based and selective best-first, iterative widening approach, keeping the search tree in memory.

=Quotes= Quote from Computer vs. computer: Duel on the Chessboard on ACM 1979: The biggest and most powerful computers do that very well. In one second, they can examine thousands of possible moves. The problem is, they stop to consider lousy moves that a human player wouldn't waste a fraction of a second on. On the other side of the fence are the slower but "smarter" computer programs. They can't think about zillions of chess moves, so they need a lot of information about chess plugged into them. CHAOS is one of these latter, pumped with chess information from John J. O'Keefe, one of Michigan's top players.

=External Links=
 * Jack O’Keefe's ICGA Tournaments

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