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=Senior World Champion=
In 2008 Larry won the [[FIDE]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Senior_Chess_Championship Senior World Championship] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Zwischenahn Bad Zwischenahn], Germany <ref>[http://www.seniorenschach.de/en/index.php Welcome to the website on XVIII. Senior World Championship 2008 in Bad Zwischenahn]</ref> <ref>[http://www.seniorenschach.de/Listen2008/SenWM2008_Herren-Rang.HTM Final Standings Senior World Championship Men 2008 Bad Zwischenahn]</ref> , also receiving the Grandmaster title <ref>[http://main.uschess.org/content/view/8880/497/ The United States Chess Federation - Larry Kaufman World Senior Champion!], November 8, 2008</ref>.
=Quotes=
by [[Ron Nelson]] on his work with Larry Kaufman <ref>[http://www.hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6768&start=78 Excalibur Electronics] by [[Ron Nelson|ChessChallenger]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Hiarcs Forum]], December 22, 2015</ref>:
The [[Opening Book|book openings]] for all the [[Excalibur Electronics|Excalibur]] Chess Games was designed by Larry Kaufman. Larry Kaufman is a most brilliant Chess Master that understood computer chess search. He would explain to me how [[Frans Morsch]] evaluated positions, just by playing his program. He was incredible. He wrote a list of things for an [[Evaluation|evaluation]] function and how to balance it. His [[Point Value|piece weightings]] were different than the [[Kathe Spracklen|Spracklens]].
=Selected Publications=
[[Category:Journalist|Kaufman]]
[[Category:Shogi Player|Kaufman]]
[[Category:Nelson Quotes|Kaufman]]
