Jack O’Keefe
Jack O’Keefe [1]
Jack O’Keefe, (March 25, 1930 - July 31, 2008 [2])
was an American chess player and chess historian [3] from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and 1967 Michigan Open State Champion [4].
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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 [5] , 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 [6], keeping the search tree in memory.
Quotes
Quote from Computer vs. computer: Duel on the Chessboard [7] 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.
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References
- ↑ Photograph contributed by Carla Campbell, from Chess Note 5708. Jack O’Keefe (1930-2008) by Edward Winter
- ↑ John O'Keefe's Obituary by Ann Arbor News
- ↑ Norman Tweed Whitaker and the Search for Historical Perspective: A Tale Full of Genius and Devil by John S. Hilbert from Chess Archaeology
- ↑ State Champions from Michigan Chess Association
- ↑ Chaos' ICGA Tournaments
- ↑ The Eleventh ACM's North American Computer Chess Championship as pdf reprint from The Computer History Museum
- ↑ Computer vs. computer: Duel on the Chessboard, Boca Raton News - November 27. 1979 from Google News on ACM 1979
