Since you’re here...

We hope you will consider supporting us today. We need your support to continue to exist, because good entries are more and more work time. Every reader contribution, however big or small, is so valuable. Support "Chess Engines Diary" even a small amount– and it only takes a minute. Thank you.
============================== My email: jotes@go2.pl



Chess engine UCI: Zahak 4.0 (Windows, Linux and Mac)

 

Zahak - UCI chess engine written in Go. 
Author: Amanj Sherwany  Rating JCER=2943 (180 place)

v.4.0
King Safety, and Pawn Shield
Pawn structure evaluation is redone, with various mis-evaluation fixes
More aggressive Null Move Pruning
NPS increase and performance optimizations (almost 40% more NPS)
Add Internal Iterative Deepening
Add Enhanced Futility Pruning
Pseudo Legal Moves
Fix SEE pruning
Fix Hash-move and move ordering for pawn promotion
Search Parameter tweaking



Comments