Larry Kaufman
Lawrence (Larry ) Charles Kaufman ( * November 15, 1947 in Washington, DC) is an American chess and Shōgispieler. In 2008 he won the Senior World Chess Championship.
Life
He studied economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1969 to 1986 he worked as a stock trader, then in the software industry.
Chess
He learned chess at the age of 7 years. In 1966 he won the American Open. In 1980 he received the title of International Master. He won several national championships, including those from Florida, where he lived 1975-1996, and four times that of Maryland. Twice 1972, 2002 and 2003, he participated in the national championship of the United States. In the U.S. Chess League, he plays for the Baltimore Kingfishers. In 2008, he won the U.S. Senior Championship. In November 2008, Kaufman won the World Championship of seniors, which was held in Bad Zwischenahn. He scored 9 points from 11 games, winning by better rating before the same number of points Mihai Suba. By winning the Senior World Championship awarding the grandmaster title is connected. In 2009, he arrived at the Senior World Championship at No. 8, 2010, he was ranked fourth
He also works as a chess trainer. At times he was Chairman of the Commission of the rating United States Chess Federation.
His Elo rating is 2401 (as of January 2012).
Publications
Kaufman published in 2004 Publisher Random House, the book The Chess Advantage in Black and White (ISBN 0812935713 ), in which he suggested an opening repertoire that builds 1.e2 -e4 with white on the train and black among others, the Berlin Defence and the semi- Slav Defence recommends. - A new edition of this work appeared in 2012 under the title The Kaufman repertoire for black and white (ISBN 978-90-5691-371-7 ). In this issue, he recommends the train 1 d2 -d4 and black openings like the Breyer system and the Grünfeld Indian Defence for White.
He also wrote numerous articles for Chess Life, the magazine of the United States Chess Federation. He was awarded for the Best Chess Theoretical Article 1999. In the magazine New In Chess (No. 6, 2003, p 9 ), he wrote a post about parallels between chess and Shogi.
Computer Chess
During his time at MIT he first came into contact with computer chess. For the 1967 program developed MacHack he worked as a consultant of chess and created an opening book.
Together with Don Dailey, he developed several chess programs. Mini participated in the 5th (Cologne 1986) and 6 ( Edmonton 1989) World Computer Chess Championship in part. Socrates won the ACM tournament in 1993. Cilkchess won the 1996 Open Computer Chess Championship in the Netherlands in 1997 and took on 12 AEGON tournament in The Hague part. It ran on a Silicon Graphics computer with 32 processors, reaching over 2 million calculated positions per second. 1998 created by Dailey and Kaufman program was launched under the name of Corel Chess on the market.
He created the opening books for several chess computers of the Novag. In the early 1990s he published Computer Chess Reports, a magazine about computer chess.
Currently he is working with at the leading chess program Rybka where he is responsible for the development of algorithms for the evaluation of positions in the first place. Several competitions Rybka against Grand Master took place at his home in Maryland since 2007.
Shogi
He is considered one of the best western Shogi players. In 1998 and 1999 he won the Pan - Atlantic Championships, 1999 European Open. In the championship of the United States in 1998 and the First International Shogi Tournament in Tokyo, he came on the 2nd place, respectively.
In default games he scored several victories against Japanese professional players.