Difference between revisions of "David Forthoffer"

From Chessprogramming wiki
Jump to: navigation, search
(Created page with "'''Home * People * David Forthoffer''' FILE:DavidForthoffer.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=http://www.cubberley1965.org/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6226724|...")
 
 
(2 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 5: Line 5:
 
'''David Forthoffer''',<br/>
 
'''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.  
 
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 [[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>.  
+
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>.  
  
 
=Selected Publications=
 
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf ICGA Reference Database] (pdf)</ref>
+
<ref>[[ICGA Journal#RefDB|ICGA Reference Database]]</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]]
 
* [[David Forthoffer]], [[Lars Rasmussen]], [[Sito Dekker]] ('''1989'''). ''A Correction to some KRKB-Database Results''. [[ICGA Journal#12_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1]]
  
Line 16: Line 16:
  
 
=External Links=
 
=External Links=
* [https://www.chess.com/member/davidforthoffer Member: David Forthoffer], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess.com Chess.com]
+
* [https://www.chess.com/member/davidforthoffer Member: David Forthoffer], [[Chess.com]]
 
* [http://www.cubberley1965.org/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6226724 David Forthoffer]
 
* [http://www.cubberley1965.org/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6226724 David Forthoffer]
 
* [https://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs248-competition/spr95/forthoffer/ CS 248 Spring 1995 Rendering Competition]
 
* [https://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs248-competition/spr95/forthoffer/ CS 248 Spring 1995 Rendering Competition]

Latest revision as of 17:59, 25 February 2021

Home * People * David Forthoffer

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

[6]

Forum Posts

External Links

References

Up one level