Lars Rasmussen

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Lars Rasmussen, [1]

a Danish chess player and programmer, endgame and early endgame tablebase researcher with interests in maximals and mutual zugzwang [2] [3]. Along with David Forthoffer and primary author Sito Dekker, he contributed to the automated database generation program Retro, considering both en passant and castling [4], which revealed five discrepancies in KRKB [5] from the numbers published by Jaap van den Herik and Bob Herschberg, et al. [6]. Lars Rasmussen wrote an MS-DOS routine for John Roycroft to search text for the extended GBR code, which, when located, was thoroughly tested for self-consistency [7]. He further developed the ChessBase interface program to access the Thompson’s Databases [8] [9], and is author of an engine solving pawn endgames [10] [11] [12].

Forum Posts#

• 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
• Lars Rasmussen chess games - 365Chess.com

References#

1. ↑ not to confused with Lars Rasmussen (software developer)
2. ↑ List of All Known Mutual Zugzwangs
3. ↑ Lars Rasmussen (1991 - 2000). Mutual Zugzwang Results. (various) EG
4. ↑ Eugene Nalimov, Guy Haworth, Ernst A. Heinz (2000). Space-Efficient Indexing of Chess Endgame Tables. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3
5. ↑ David Forthoffer, Lars Rasmussen, Sito Dekker (1989). A Correction to some KRKB-Database Results. ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1
6. ↑ Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg, et al. (1988). Computer Checks on Human Analyses of the KRKB Endgame. ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1
7. ↑ John Roycroft and chess by himself
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

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