Julio Kaplan

Julio Kaplan
Kaplan in 1974
CountryPuerto Rico
United States
Born (1950-07-25) 25 July 1950 (age 74)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
TitleInternational Master (1967)
FIDE rating2480 (February 2025)
Peak rating2480 (January 1981)

Julio Argentino Kaplan Pera[1][2] (born 25 July 1950, Argentina) is a Puerto Rican chess player, former world junior chess champion as well as software developer and founder of Heuristic Software.

Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1964 to Puerto Rico,[3] where he was raised and studied. Later in his life, he emigrated to the United States, where he resides to this day and works for Autodesk. Earlier in his career, in the 1980s, he programmed dedicated chess computers for SciSys and Saitek. In the early 1990s he collaborated on the chess program Socrates.[4]

  1. ^ Revista Ajedrez (Argentina), October 1967, page 343
  2. ^ The 105th Commencement, University of California, Berkeley, 1968
  3. ^ "Nuestro Círculo". www.p4r.org.ar. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
  4. ^ "Kaplan, Julio" (in German). Schachcomputer wiki. Retrieved 9 January 2011.

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