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'''Sito Dekker''',<br/>
a Dutch physicist, electrical engineer, computer scientist, and CEO and Owner of ''DekTec Digital Video'' <ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/sitodekker/ Sito Dekker | LinkedIn]</ref> .
While affiliated with the [[Delft University of Technology]] in the 80s, Sito Dekker was co-author of the computer chess programs [[Pion]] and [[Dutch]], and researched on [[Endgame Tablebases|endgame tablebases]].
Along with [[David Forthoffer]] and [[Lars Rasmussen]], he was primary author of the automated database generation program [[Retro]], considering both [[En passant|en passant]] and [[Castling|castling]] inside its indexing scheme <ref>[[Eugene Nalimov]], [[Guy Haworth]], [[Ernst A. Heinz]] ('''2000'''). ''[http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/4562/ Space-Efficient Indexing of Chess Endgame Tables]''. [[ICGA Journal#23_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3]]</ref>. They revealed five discrepancies in KRKB <ref>[[David Forthoffer]], [[Lars Rasmussen]], [[Sito Dekker]] ('''1989'''). ''A Correction to some KRKB-Database Results''. [[ICGA Journal#12_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1]]</ref> from the numbers published by [[Jaap van den Herik]] and [[Bob Herschberg]], et al. <ref>[[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Bob Herschberg]], et al. ('''1988'''). ''Computer Checks on Human Analyses of the KRKB Endgame''. [[ICGA Journal#11_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1]]</ref>.
=Photos=
[[FILE:PionTeam.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|560px]]
Pion team: <?>, [[Jan Derksen]], [[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Harry Nefkens]] (center), [[Roger Hünen]] <br/>back of head of [[Sito Dekker]] sitting in front of the board <ref>Image from [[Peter van Diepen]] ('''1983'''). ''Toernooibulletin van het Nederlands kampioenschap computerschaak 1982''. [http://www.schaakcomputers.nl/hein_veldhuis/database/files/05-1983,%20toernooibulletin%20van%20het%20Nederlands%20kampioenschap%20computerschaak%201982.pdf pdf] hosted by [[Hein Veldhuis]] » [[DOCCC 1982]]</ref>
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf ICGA Reference Database] (pdf)</ref> <ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/ht/d/Dekker:Sito dblp: Sito Dekker]</ref>
* [[Sito Dekker]], [[Roger Hünen]] ('''1984'''). ''PATA-manual''. Internal Report. [[Delft University of Technology]] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA Parallel ATA from Wikipedia]</ref>
* [[Sito Dekker]], [[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Bob Herschberg]] ('''1987'''). ''Complexity Starts at Five''. [[ICGA Journal#10_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 3]]
* [[Sito Dekker]], [[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Bob Herschberg]] ('''1987'''). ''Perfect Knowledge and Beyond''. Report 37-87, [[Delft University of Technology]], Delft.
* [[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Sito Dekker]] ('''1988'''). ''Uitputtende enumeratie schaakeindspel''. in Het gebruik van supercomputers in Nederland, [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/SURFsara SARA], Amsterdam
* [[David Forthoffer]], [[Lars Rasmussen]], [[Sito Dekker]] ('''1989'''). ''A Correction to some KRKB-Database Results''. [[ICGA Journal#12_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1]]
* [[Sito Dekker]], [[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Bob Herschberg]] ('''1989'''). ''Perfect Knowledge and Beyond''. [[Advances in Computer Chess 5]]
* [[Sito Dekker]], [[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Bob Herschberg]] ('''1990'''). ''Perfect Knowledge Revisited''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 43, No. 1
=External LInks=
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sitodekker/ Sito Dekker | LinkedIn]
* [http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=1043919 Dekker, Sito FIDE Chess Profile]
* [https://www.365chess.com/players/Sito_Dekker Sito Dekker chess games - 365Chess.com]
=References=
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[[FILE:SitoDekker.JPG|border|right|thumb|240px|link=https://www.linkedin.com/in/sitodekker/| Sito Dekker <ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/sitodekker/ Sito Dekker | LinkedIn]</ref> ]]
'''Sito Dekker''',<br/>
a Dutch physicist, electrical engineer, computer scientist, and CEO and Owner of ''DekTec Digital Video'' <ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/sitodekker/ Sito Dekker | LinkedIn]</ref> .
While affiliated with the [[Delft University of Technology]] in the 80s, Sito Dekker was co-author of the computer chess programs [[Pion]] and [[Dutch]], and researched on [[Endgame Tablebases|endgame tablebases]].
Along with [[David Forthoffer]] and [[Lars Rasmussen]], he was primary author of the automated database generation program [[Retro]], considering both [[En passant|en passant]] and [[Castling|castling]] inside its indexing scheme <ref>[[Eugene Nalimov]], [[Guy Haworth]], [[Ernst A. Heinz]] ('''2000'''). ''[http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/4562/ Space-Efficient Indexing of Chess Endgame Tables]''. [[ICGA Journal#23_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3]]</ref>. They revealed five discrepancies in KRKB <ref>[[David Forthoffer]], [[Lars Rasmussen]], [[Sito Dekker]] ('''1989'''). ''A Correction to some KRKB-Database Results''. [[ICGA Journal#12_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1]]</ref> from the numbers published by [[Jaap van den Herik]] and [[Bob Herschberg]], et al. <ref>[[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Bob Herschberg]], et al. ('''1988'''). ''Computer Checks on Human Analyses of the KRKB Endgame''. [[ICGA Journal#11_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1]]</ref>.
=Photos=
[[FILE:PionTeam.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|560px]]
Pion team: <?>, [[Jan Derksen]], [[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Harry Nefkens]] (center), [[Roger Hünen]] <br/>back of head of [[Sito Dekker]] sitting in front of the board <ref>Image from [[Peter van Diepen]] ('''1983'''). ''Toernooibulletin van het Nederlands kampioenschap computerschaak 1982''. [http://www.schaakcomputers.nl/hein_veldhuis/database/files/05-1983,%20toernooibulletin%20van%20het%20Nederlands%20kampioenschap%20computerschaak%201982.pdf pdf] hosted by [[Hein Veldhuis]] » [[DOCCC 1982]]</ref>
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf ICGA Reference Database] (pdf)</ref> <ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/ht/d/Dekker:Sito dblp: Sito Dekker]</ref>
* [[Sito Dekker]], [[Roger Hünen]] ('''1984'''). ''PATA-manual''. Internal Report. [[Delft University of Technology]] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA Parallel ATA from Wikipedia]</ref>
* [[Sito Dekker]], [[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Bob Herschberg]] ('''1987'''). ''Complexity Starts at Five''. [[ICGA Journal#10_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 3]]
* [[Sito Dekker]], [[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Bob Herschberg]] ('''1987'''). ''Perfect Knowledge and Beyond''. Report 37-87, [[Delft University of Technology]], Delft.
* [[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Sito Dekker]] ('''1988'''). ''Uitputtende enumeratie schaakeindspel''. in Het gebruik van supercomputers in Nederland, [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/SURFsara SARA], Amsterdam
* [[David Forthoffer]], [[Lars Rasmussen]], [[Sito Dekker]] ('''1989'''). ''A Correction to some KRKB-Database Results''. [[ICGA Journal#12_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1]]
* [[Sito Dekker]], [[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Bob Herschberg]] ('''1989'''). ''Perfect Knowledge and Beyond''. [[Advances in Computer Chess 5]]
* [[Sito Dekker]], [[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Bob Herschberg]] ('''1990'''). ''Perfect Knowledge Revisited''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 43, No. 1
=External LInks=
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sitodekker/ Sito Dekker | LinkedIn]
* [http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=1043919 Dekker, Sito FIDE Chess Profile]
* [https://www.365chess.com/players/Sito_Dekker Sito Dekker chess games - 365Chess.com]
=References=
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