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Sito Dekker, a Dutch physicist, electrical engineer, computer scientist, and CEO and Owner of DekTec Digital Video. 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. Along with David Forthoffer and Lars Rasmussen, he was primary author of the automated database generation program Retro, considering both en passant and castling inside its indexing scheme. They revealed five discrepancies in KRKB from the numbers published by Jaap van den Herik and Bob Herschberg, et al..

=Photos= Pion team: <?>, Jan Derksen, Jaap van den Herik, Harry Nefkens (center), Roger Hünen back of head of Sito Dekker sitting in front of the board

=Selected Publications=
 * Sito Dekker, Roger Hünen (1984). PATA-manual. Internal Report. Delft University of Technology
 * Sito Dekker, Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg (1987). Complexity Starts at Five. 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, SARA, Amsterdam
 * David Forthoffer, Lars Rasmussen, Sito Dekker (1989). A Correction to some KRKB-Database Results. 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. Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 43, No. 1

=External LInks=
 * Sito Dekker | LinkedIn
 * Dekker, Sito FIDE Chess Profile
 * Sito Dekker chess games - 365Chess.com

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