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		Eugene V. Nalimov, a Russian computer scientist and chess programmer, M.Sc. from Novosibirsk State University. Eugene actually lives and works in the United States as Microsoft employee as member of the team in developing the Visual C++ compiler. Eugene is author of the chess program Siberian Chess and eponym of the Nalimov endgame tablebases. Besides that, Eugene also contributes as an author of several Bitscan routines [1] and of course as optimization expert for the Microsoft Visual C compiler [2].
Eugene Nalimov [3]

Photos

Eugene Nalimov as winner of the ChessBase Best-Publication Award and Guest of Honor at the 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop, during his Invited Lecture on Chess Endgame Tablebases, Maastricht, July 8, 2002 ^[4]

Schoolboys listening to what ...		Nalimov says about ...
Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Rudolf Huber, Levente Kocsis, Frans Morsch, Johan de Koning and Jan Krabbenbos		... Chess Endgame Tablebases

Selected Publications

• Eugene Nalimov, Christoph Wirth, Guy Haworth (1999). KQQKQQ and the Kasparov-World Game. ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 4
• Eugene Nalimov, Guy Haworth, Ernst A. Heinz (2000). Space-Efficient Indexing of Chess Endgame Tables. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3, postscript
• Eugene Nalimov, Guy Haworth, Ernst A. Heinz (2001). Space-efficient Indexing of Endgame Tables for Chess. Advances in Computer Games 9
• Eugène Nalimov (2002). Chess Endgame Tablebases. Invited Lecture, 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop

Forum Posts

Nalimov Tablebases

1998 ...

• Tablebases by Eugene Nalimov, CCC, August 28, 1998
• Program for new TB by Dr. Eugene Nalimov ? by Michael Diosi, rgcc, November 6, 1998
• Nalimov's TBs: one question by Jouni Uski, CCC, November 18, 1998
  Re: Nalimov's TBs: one question by Eugene Nalimov, CCC, November 18, 1998
• Q: Nalimov EGTB? by Dennis Breuker, CCC, August 05, 1999
  Re: Q: Nalimov EGTB? by Eugene Nalimov, CCC, August 05, 1999
• Nalimov TB caching ? by Ulrich Türke from CCC, August 06, 1999
• difference betrween nalimov and thompson EGTB by Rajen Gupta, CCC, December 10, 1999
  Re: difference betrween nalimov and thompson EGTB by Frederic Friedel, CCC, December 11, 1999

2000 ...

• Nalimov-EGTBs in ANSI-C? by Heiner Marxen, CCC, January 21, 2000
• Nalimov endgames by Jean-Christophe Weill, CCC, February 20, 2001
• Nalimov's EGTBs (long post with code) by Heiner Marxen, CCC, October 13, 2001
• Nalimov TB question by Bas Hamstra, CCC, November 11, 2001
• Questions about the new Nalimov tablebase files... by Dann Corbit, CCC, December 12, 2002
• Compressed Nalimov EGTBs by Leonardo Ljubicic, rgcc, November 18, 2003
• Bug/glitch in Nalimov Code (and in Wilhelm)? by Dieter Bürssner, CCC, May 09, 2004
• To Eugene Nalimov: Copyright of Tablebase files by Karl-Heinz Milaster, CCC, June 05, 2004
• Enpassant in Nalimov by Henry Hongdoyo, CCC, October 25, 2004

2005 ...

• Subject: Problem (small bug?) with Nalimov TBs by Dieter Bürssner, CCC, January 23, 2005
• For Eugene Nalimov: EGTB Request by Vasik Rajlich, CCC, December 16, 2005
• smp and nalimov egtb, how to make it work? by Volker Böhm, CCC, February 23, 2006
• Nalimov access with Vasik Rajlich, Rybka Forum, January 9, 2007
• Nalimov Tablebases by Terry Giles, CCC, July 02, 2007
• Nalimov EGTB by cyberfish, CCC, October 19, 2008
• 6-men (64 bit) Nalimov EGTB generator by Gian-Carlo Pascutto, CCC, September 13, 2009
• Nalimov EGTB probes skeleton code by Joshua Shriver, CCC, December 17, 2009

2010 ...

• Nalimov and memory for indexes (are you aware?) by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, March 01, 2010
• Question for Nalimov experts by Mincho Georgiev, CCC, April 10, 2010
• Gaviota EGTB in Houdini 1.5 + contacting Eugene Nalimov by Robert Houdart, CCC, December 01, 2010
• Nalimov 6 men ... by Michael Diosi, CCC, January 12, 2013
• Nalimov by Sune Larsson, CCC, May 22, 2013

BitScan

• Re: Will the Itanium have a BSF or BSR instruction? by Eugene Nalimov, CCC, August 16, 2000 » Itanium
• Re: Nalimov: bsf/bsr intrinsics implementation still not optimal by Eugene Nalimov, CCC, September 23, 2004

External Links

• Eugene Nalimov from Wikipedia
• Web Query for Nalimov Endgame Tablebases from Knowledge4IT by Eiko Bleicher

References

1. ^ Nalimov: bsf/bsr intrinsics implementation still not optimal by Dezhi Zhao, CCC, September 22, 2004
2. ^ About compiler optimizations by Frédéric Louguet, CCC, December 19, 2002
3. ^ Photo from Las tablas de finales por dentro ChessBase espanola
4. ^ Eugene Nalimov: Winner of the ChessBase Award and Guest of Honor in Maastricht by Eric van Reem, ChessBase Events, July 9, 2002 (archived)

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