Author: Walter Faxon
Date: 13:51:53 08/20/03
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On August 20, 2003 at 02:21:33, Charles kamaras wrote:
>Does anyone knows what happened to Larry Kauffman.Does he has a webb site?
>Thanks
Try Googling with ("Larry Kaufman" chess). He's still an IM, still playing
chess (e.g., he played in the Atlantic Open a year ago and also more recently;
see the USCF online rating list, http://www.64.com/uscf/ratings/10179416).
Today he's mostly involved in promoting the Japanese version of chess, Shogi.
(Shogi allows you to place the pieces you capture as new pieces of your own, a
la bughouse/crazyhouse.) He is currently chairman of U.S. Shogi Federation
(http://www.bujutsu.com/shogi/).
No recent computer chess links. No web site I can find. But you can email him
at: lkaufman@wizard.net (address via USSF).
One overlooked contribution Larry made to computer chess was his article in the
March 1999 issue of the USCF print magazine Chess Life: "Evaluation of Material
Imbalances". Important reading for chess programmers. A related article was
published in the January/February 2001 issue: "Teaching Chess with Handicaps".
However, I suggest his valuations be tempered with the findings of John Watson
as to knights vs. bishops in the opening -- see the latter's writings on the QGD
Chigorin Defense.
-- Walter
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