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Lars Rasmussen, ^[1]
a Danish chess player and programmer, endgame and early endgame tablebase researcher ^[2], with interests in maximals and mutual zugzwang ^{[3] [4]}. Along with David Forthoffer and Sito Dekker, he contributed to the automated database generation program RETRO, considering both en passant and castling ^[5], which revealed five discrepancies in KRKB ^[6] from the numbers published by Jaap van den Herik and Bob Herschberg, et al. ^[7]. Lars Rasmussen wrote the ChessBase interface program to access the Thompson's Databases ^{[8] [9]}, and is author of an engine solving pawn endgames ^{[10] [11] [12]}.

Selected Publications

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• Lars Rasmussen (1987). Correcting grandmasters' Analyses in Elementary Endgames. ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 4
• Lars Rasmussen (1988). Ultimates in KQKR and KRKN. ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1
• Lars Rasmussen (1988). A Database for KRKP. ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 4
• Lars Rasmussen (1988). Endgame Research. New in Chess, 1988/3
• David Forthoffer, Lars Rasmussen, Sito Dekker (1989). A Correction to some KRKB-Database Results. ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1
• Lars Rasmussen (1991 - 2000). Mutual Zugzwang Results. (various) EG
• Lars Rasmussen (1992). Queen versus Rook and Pawn. ICCA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2

Postings

• 6-man EGT status by Guy Haworth, CCC, December 24, 2001

External Links

• Rasmussen, Lars FIDE Chess Profile
• The chess games of Lars Rasmussen from chessgames.com

References

1. ^ not to confused with Lars Rasmussen (software developer)
2. ^ Autobiography by John Roycroft, The Problemist, BCPS
3. ^ List of All Known Mutual Zugzwangs
4. ^ Lars Rasmussen (1991 - 2000). Mutual Zugzwang Results. (various) EG
5. ^ Eugene Nalimov, Guy Haworth, Ernst A. Heinz (2000). Space-Efficient Indexing of Chess Endgame Tables. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3
6. ^ David Forthoffer, Lars Rasmussen, Sito Dekker (1989). A Correction to some KRKB-Database Results. ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1
7. ^ Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg, et al. (1988). Computer Checks on Human Analyses of the KRKB Endgame. ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1
8. ^ John Nunn (1992). Perfect Prose. ICCA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2
9. ^ Secrets of Pawnless Endings - Chess Master by Carey Steveson
10. ^ Chess | Culture by Jon Speelman, The Independent, July 30, 1999
11. ^ Practical Chess Engame + Computer Analysis, May 17, 1998
12. ^ Karsten Müller, Frank Lamprecht (2000). Secrets of Pawn Endings. Everyman Chess, (2007). re-issue by Gambit Publications
13. ^ ICGA Reference Database (pdf)

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