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Sito Dekker [1] Sito Dekker,

a Dutch physicist, electrical engineer, computer scientist, and CEO and Owner of DekTec Digital Video [2] . While affiliated with the Delft University of Technology in the 80s, Sito Dekker was co-author of the computer chess programs Pion and Dutch, and researched on endgame tablebases. Along with David Forthoffer and Lars Rasmussen, he was primary author of the automated database generation program Retro, considering both en passant and castling inside its indexing scheme [3]. They revealed five discrepancies in KRKB [4] from the numbers published by Jaap van den Herik and Bob Herschberg, et al. [5].

Selected Publications

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References

  1. Sito Dekker | LinkedIn
  2. Sito Dekker | LinkedIn
  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. Image from Peter van Diepen (1983). Toernooibulletin van het Nederlands kampioenschap computerschaak 1982. pdf hosted by Hein Veldhuis » DOCCC 1982
  7. ICGA Reference Database
  8. dblp: Sito Dekker
  9. Parallel ATA from Wikipedia

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