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Eugene V. Nalimov,
a Russian computer scientist and chess programmer, M.Sc. from Novosibirsk State University. Eugene actually lives and works in the United States as Microsoft employee as member of the team in developing the Visual C++ compiler.

Eugene is author of the chess program Siberian Chess and eponym of the Nalimov endgame tablebases. Besides that, Eugene also contributes as an author of several BitScan routines ¹ and of course as optimization expert for the Microsoft Visual C compiler ².

Contents

Lecture

Eugène Nalimov, winner of the ChessBase Best-Publication Award and Guest of Honor at Workshop, during his invited Lecture, July 8, 2002 ³

Schoolboys listening to what ...	Nalimov says about ...

Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Rudolf Huber, Levente Kocsis, Frans Morsch, Johan de Koning and Jan Krabbenbos	... Chess Endgame Tablebases

Selected Publications

Eugene Nalimov, Christoph Wirth, Guy Haworth (1999). KQQKQQ and the Kasparov-World Game. ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 4
Eugene Nalimov, Guy Haworth, Ernst A. Heinz (2000). Space-Efficient Indexing of Chess Endgame Tables. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3, postscript
Eugene Nalimov, Guy Haworth, Ernst A. Heinz (2001). Space-efficient Indexing of Endgame Tables for Chess. Advances in Computer Games 9
Eugene Nalimov (2002). Chess Endgame Tablebases. Invited Lecture, 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop

Forum Posts

Nalimov Tablebases

1998 ...

Tablebases by Eugene Nalimov, CCC, August 28, 1998
Program for new TB by Dr. Eugene Nalimov ? by Michael Diosi, rgcc, November 6, 1998
Nalimov's TBs: one question by Jouni Uski, CCC, November 18, 1998

Re: Nalimov's TBs: one question by Eugene Nalimov, CCC, November 18, 1998

Q: Nalimov EGTB? by Dennis Breuker, CCC, August 05, 1999

Re: Q: Nalimov EGTB? by Eugene Nalimov, CCC, August 05, 1999

Nalimov TB caching ? by Ulrich Türke from CCC, August 06, 1999
difference betrween nalimov and thompson EGTB by Rajen Gupta, CCC, December 10, 1999

Re: difference betrween nalimov and thompson EGTB by Frederic Friedel, CCC, December 11, 1999

2000 ...

Nalimov-EGTBs in ANSI-C? by Heiner Marxen, CCC, January 21, 2000
Nalimov endgames by Jean-Christophe Weill, CCC, February 20, 2001
Nalimov's EGTBs (long post with code) by Heiner Marxen, CCC, October 13, 2001
Nalimov TB question by Bas Hamstra, CCC, November 11, 2001
Questions about the new Nalimov tablebase files... by Dann Corbit, CCC, December 12, 2002
Compressed Nalimov EGTBs by Leonardo Ljubicic, rgcc, November 18, 2003
Bug/glitch in Nalimov Code (and in Wilhelm)? by Dieter Bürßner, CCC, May 09, 2004
To Eugene Nalimov: Copyright of Tablebase files by Karl-Heinz Milaster, CCC, June 05, 2004
Enpassant in Nalimov by Henry Hongdoyo, CCC, October 25, 2004

2005 ...

Subject: Problem (small bug?) with Nalimov TBs by Dieter Bürßner, CCC, January 23, 2005
For Eugene Nalimov: EGTB Request by Vasik Rajlich, CCC, December 16, 2005
smp and nalimov egtb, how to make it work? by Volker Böhm, CCC, February 23, 2006
Nalimov access with Vasik Rajlich, Rybka Forum, January 9, 2007
Nalimov Tablebases by Terry Giles, CCC, July 02, 2007
Nalimov EGTB by cyberfish, CCC, October 19, 2008
6-men (64 bit) Nalimov EGTB generator by Gian-Carlo Pascutto, CCC, September 13, 2009
Nalimov EGTB probes skeleton code by Joshua Shriver, CCC, December 17, 2009

2010 ...

Nalimov and memory for indexes (are you aware?) by Miguel A. Ballicora, CCC, March 01, 2010
Question for Nalimov experts by Mincho Georgiev, CCC, April 10, 2010
Gaviota EGTB in Houdini 1.5 + contacting Eugene Nalimov by Robert Houdart, CCC, December 01, 2010
Nalimov 6 men ... by Michael Diosi, CCC, January 12, 2013
Nalimov by Sune Larsson, CCC, May 22, 2013

BitScan

Re: Will the Itanium have a BSF or BSR instruction? by Eugene Nalimov, CCC, August 16, 2000 » Itanium
Re: Nalimov: bsf/bsr intrinsics implementation still not optimal by Eugene Nalimov, CCC, September 23, 2004

External Links

References

Up one level

Nalimov: bsf/bsr intrinsics implementation still not optimal by Dezhi Zhao, CCC, September 22, 2004↩︎
About compiler optimizations by Frédéric Louguet, CCC, December 19, 2002↩︎
Eugene Nalimov: Winner of the ChessBase Award and Guest of Honor in Maastricht by Eric van Reem, ChessBase Events, July 9, 2002 (archived)↩︎

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