Personal Notes

I like increments; I invented this way of playing in the 1970s.

I'm 2008 World Senior Champion Larry Kaufman, FIDE 2400

I'm 65 years old.

I live in Potomac, Maryland (near Washington D.C.)

I normally play only rated games

I don't take back blunders, so please don't ask me to do so.

I am the top ranked American shogi player; "ShogiDojo" is similar to ICC, for shogi.

http://www.shogidojo.com/eng/engindex.htm

I was responsible for the evaluation function of Rybka 3, now I work on Komodo

My book "The Kaufman Repertoire for Black and White" came out last year.

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