David Forthoffer

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David Forthoffer, an American computer scientist, chess player, national master, 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, which revealed five discrepancies in KRKB from the numbers published by Jaap van den Herik and Bob Herschberg, et al..

=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
 * Apologies to the Undead by Sam Sloan, rec.games.chess.misc, November 06, 1995

=External Links=
 * Member: David Forthoffer, Chess.com
 * David Forthoffer
 * CS 248 Spring 1995 Rendering Competition

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