David Forthoffer, an American computer scientist, chess player, national master [1] [2], 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 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].
David Forthoffer [6]

Selected Publications

• David Forthoffer, Lars Rasmussen, Sito Dekker (1989). A Correction to some KRKB-Database Results. ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1

Postings

• Re: Magriel by David Forthoffer, rec.games.backgammon, July 02, 1994 ^[8]
• Apologies to the Undead by Sam Sloan, rec.games.chess.misc, November 06, 1995

External Links

• Member: David Forthoffer, Chess.com
• David Forthoffer, Palo Alto, CA California currently in Palmer, AK USA
• CS 248 Spring 1995 Rendering Competition

References

1. ^ Top chess players at chess.com by Bill Wall, Chess.com, June 12, 2009
2. ^ California and Chess by Bill Wall
3. ^ Eugene Nalimov, Guy Haworth, Ernst A. Heinz (2000). Space-Efficient Indexing of Chess Endgame Tables. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3
4. ^ David Forthoffer, Lars Rasmussen, Sito Dekker (1989). A Correction to some KRKB-Database Results. ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1
5. ^ Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg, et al. (1988). Computer Checks on Human Analyses of the KRKB Endgame. ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1
6. ^ David Forthoffer, Palo Alto, CA California currently in Palmer, AK USA
7. ^ ICGA Reference Database (pdf)
8. ^ Paul Magriel from Wikipedia

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