Eugene Nalimov Explained

Eugene Nalimov (born Евгений Викторович Нали́мов (Yevgeny Viktorovich Nalimov) in 1965 in Novosibirsk, U.S.S.R.) is a chess programmer and former Microsoft employee, currently working for Context Relevant.

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.^[1]

Nalimov has an M.Sc. from Novosibirsk State University. He started a Ph.D. dissertation, but did not finish it.

See also

• Nalimov tablebase

External links

• ChessBase: Events (2002) - Eugene Nalimov: Winner of the ChessBase Award and Guest of Honor in Maastricht
• Evcomp - Endgame databases

Notes and References

1. Web site: ChessBase: Events (2002) - Eugene Nalimov: Winner of the ChessBase Award and Guest of Honor in Maastricht . 2006-09-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110604140558/http://www.chessbase.com/EvENts/events.asp?pid=155 . 2011-06-04 . live .