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Chess engine: Anka 0.5.5



Anka is an artificial intelligence system capable of playing chess. You can use it to play chess against the computer or to analyze your games.
Author Mehmet Eren Yeşilyurt

Requirements
Anka is a command-line only tool. You need to have a UCI compatible chess GUI program to use it comfortably. Some free options are:
Arena, Scid vs. PC, Tarrasch.
You also need a relatively modern 64-bit CPU that supports instructions like Popcnt.

Features
Alpha-beta pruning with principal variation search
Null move pruning
Transposition table
Heuristic evaluation function with material and mobility bonuses, piece square tables, isolated pawn and passed pawn evaluation etc.
Evaluation parameters tuned with Texel tuning

Anka 0.5.5 download


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