Larry Kaufman

Lawrence Charles "Larry" Kaufman (born November 15, 1947 in Washington, DC ) is an American chess grandmaster and shogi player . In 2008 he won the World Seniors Championship in chess .

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. Kaufmann's son Raymond is also a chess player who holds the title of International Master .

chess

He learned to play chess at the age of 7. In 1966 he won the American Open . In 1980 he received the title of International Master . He won several state championships, including twice those in Florida , where he lived between 1975 and 1996, and four times those of Maryland . 1972, 2002 and 2003 he took part in the national championship of the USA. In the United States Chess League he played for the Baltimore Kingfishers , with whom he became champions in 2005 . In 2008 he won the US Senior Championship. In November 2008, Kaufman won the Senior World Championship, which was held in Bad Zwischenahn . He scored 9 points from 11 games and won by better rating before the tied Mihai gleichenubă . The award of the Grand Master's title is associated with winning the Senior World Championship . In 2009 he came in 8th place at the Senior World Championships, in 2010 he came in 4th.

He also works as a chess trainer. At times he was chairman of the rating committee of the United States Chess Federation .

His Elo rating is 2209 (as of May 2019). He reached his highest Elo rating of 2445 in January 1982.

Publications

Kaufman published the book The Chess Advantage in Black and White ( ISBN 0812935713 ) by Random House in 2004 , in which he proposes an opening repertoire that builds up with White on the move 1. e2 – e4 and for Black, among other things, the Berlin Defense and the Semi-Slav Defense recommends. - A new edition of the work was published in 2012 under the title The Kaufman repertoire for black and white ( ISBN 978-90-5691-371-7 ). In this edition he recommends the move 1. d2 – d4 for White and openings such as the Breyer system and the Grünfeld-Indian Defense for Black .

He has also written numerous articles for Chess Life , the magazine of the United States Chess Federation. In 1999 he was awarded the Best Chess Theoretical Article . In the magazine New In Chess (No. 6, 2003, p. 9) he wrote an article about parallels between chess and shogi.

Computer chess

During his time at MIT, he first came into contact with computer chess . He worked as a chess consultant for the MacHack program developed in 1967 and created an opening book.

Together with Don Dailey (1956-2013) he developed several chess programs . Mini took part in the 5th (Cologne 1986) and 6th (Edmonton 1989) computer chess world championships. Socrates won the ACM tournament in 1993. Cilkchess won the 1996 Open Computer Chess Championship in the Netherlands and in 1997 took part in the 12th AEGON tournament in The Hague . It ran on a Silicon Graphics computer with 32 processors and reached over 2 million calculated positions per second. In 1998, a program created by Dailey and Kaufman under the name Corel Chess was launched.

For several chess computer company Novag he created the opening books. In the early 1990s he edited Computer Chess Reports , a magazine about computer chess .

He worked on the then leading chess program Rybka , where he was primarily responsible for the development of algorithms for evaluating positions. Rybka's several competitions against grandmasters have been held at his Maryland home since 2007.

As a result, he worked with Don Dailey and later with Mark Lefler on the Komodo chess program , also here with an emphasis on evaluating the positions.

Shogi

He is considered one of the best Western Shogi players. In 1998 and 1999 he won the Pan-Atlantic Championships , and in 1999 the European Open . At the US Championship in 1998 and the First International Shogi Tournament in Tokyo , he came in 2nd place.

In handicap games, he got several victories against Japanese professional players. He is the owner of the 5th Dan for amateur players.

Web links

• Komodo - Birth of a chess engine Article about Larry Kaufman and the history of Komodo ,accessed on ChessBase on November 23, 2017
• Introducing Larry Kaufman ( Memento April 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Larry Kaufman: The Kaufman Repertoire for Black and White . New In Chess, Alkmaar 2012, ISBN 978-90-5691-371-7 , The Kaufman Repertoire for Black, pp. 202 .
2. ↑ US Chess League ( Memento from December 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Final table of the Senior World Championships
4. ↑ Larry Kaufman's profile at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
5. ^ Publisher description
6. ^ Proceedings of the 1999 USCF Board of Delegates Meeting , August 12, 1999
7. ↑ New In Chess ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Interview with Larry Kaufman ( Memento of the original from August 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , July 23, 2008 
9. ↑ ICGA tournaments
10. ↑ PLY / SSDF - the story
11. ^ AEGON tournament 1997 ( Memento from August 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ Rybka team
13. ↑ Player profile of: Larry Kaufman. FESA, accessed December 29, 2017 .