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'''David Forthoffer''',<br/>
an American computer scientist, chess player, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_title#Master national master] <ref>[http://billwall.phpwebhosting.com/articles/California.htm California and Chess] by [[Bill Wall]]</ref>, 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|en passant]] and [[Castling|castling]] <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>, which 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>.
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