Eugene Nalimov is a chess programmer and former Microsoft employee.

Starting in 1998, he wrote a tablebase generator which included many different endgames. He received a ChessBase

ChessBase

ChessBase GmbH is a German company that markets chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates a server for online chess. Set up in 1998, it maintains and sells massive databases, containing most historic games, that permit analysis that had not been possible prior to computing...

 award at the ChessBase meeting in Maastricht in 2002 for his work.

Nalimov has an M.Sc. from Novosibirsk State University

Novosibirsk State University

Novosibirsk State University was founded in May 1959 in the USSR by Soviet academicians Mikhail Alekseevich Lavrentiev, Sergei Lvovich Sobolev and Sergey Alekseyevich Khristianovich in a program of establishing a Siberian branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences...

. He started a Ph.D. dissertation, but did not finish it.