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'''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= |
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Home * People * David Forthoffer
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
- 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 [7]
- Apologies to the Undead by Sam Sloan, rec.games.chess.misc, November 06, 1995
External Links
References
- ↑ David Forthoffer
- ↑ California and Chess by Bill Wall
- ↑ Eugene Nalimov, Guy Haworth, Ernst A. Heinz (2000). Space-Efficient Indexing of Chess Endgame Tables. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3
- ↑ David Forthoffer, Lars Rasmussen, Sito Dekker (1989). A Correction to some KRKB-Database Results. ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1
- ↑ Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg, et al. (1988). Computer Checks on Human Analyses of the KRKB Endgame. ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1
- ↑ ICGA Reference Database (pdf)
- ↑ Paul Magriel from Wikipedia