David Forthoffer
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David Forthoffer [1]
David Forthoffer,
an American computer scientist, chess player, national master [2], and early Endgame Tablebases researcher.
Along with primary author Sito Dekker and Lars Rasmussen he contributed to the automated database generation program Retro, considering both en passant and castling [3], which revealed five discrepancies in KRKB [4] from the numbers published by Jaap van den Herik and Bob Herschberg, et al.[5].
Selected Publications
- David Forthoffer, Lars Rasmussen, Sito Dekker (1989). A Correction to some KRKB-Database Results. ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1
Forum Posts
- Re: Magriel by David Forthoffer, rec.games.backgammon, July 02, 1994 [7]
- Apologies to the Undead by Sam Sloan, rec.games.chess.misc, November 06, 1995
External Links
References
- ↑ David Forthoffer
- ↑ California and Chess by Bill Wall
- ↑ Eugene Nalimov, Guy Haworth, Ernst A. Heinz (2000). Space-Efficient Indexing of Chess Endgame Tables. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3
- ↑ David Forthoffer, Lars Rasmussen, Sito Dekker (1989). A Correction to some KRKB-Database Results. ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1
- ↑ Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg, et al. (1988). Computer Checks on Human Analyses of the KRKB Endgame. ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1
- ↑ ICGA Reference Database
- ↑ Paul Magriel from Wikipedia
