Eugene Nalimov (born Евгений Викторович Нали́мов (Yevgeny Viktorovich Nalimov) in 1965 in
Novosibirsk,
U.S.S.R.
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
) is a chess programmer and former
Microsoft
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employee, currently working for
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.
Starting in 1998, he wrote a
tablebase generator which included many different endgames. He received a
ChessBase award at the ChessBase meeting in Maastricht in 2002 for his work.
Nalimov has an M.Sc. from
Novosibirsk State University
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. He started a Ph.D. dissertation, but did not finish it.
See also
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Nalimov tablebase
References
External links
ChessBase: Events (2002) - Eugene Nalimov: Winner of the ChessBase Award and Guest of Honor in Maastricht
Computer programmers
Microsoft employees
1965 births
Living people
Computer chess people
Chess endgames
Russian emigrants to the United States
Novosibirsk State University alumni
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