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How NagaSkaki plays chess

Move generation NagaSkaki has a unique method of generating moves. Instead of using rotated bitboards (like most programs do), it uses shifted bitboards. Before I go into detail about how this works, let me first explain how NagaSkaki represents the chess board. Board Representation NagaSkaki represents the chessboard as a combination of 64bit integers, called …

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How NagaSkaki plays chess

Part 2: A detailed description Evaluation Material First NagaSkaki evaluates the material score, which is as follows:Pawn = 100Knight = 310Bishop = 320Rook = 500Queen = 1000 The reason a pawn is valued at 100 and not 1, is to give you enough resolution to use integers which is faster than floating point operations. Positional …

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How NagaSkaki plays chess

Take 2 During my final year exam at varsity, the chess bug bit me again. By now I’ve learned the C++ language and had access to the Internet (where I discovered the beauty of the Alpha-beta algorithm and better ways to represent a chess board.) My hardware was also much better (a Pentium 120MHz) and …

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Part 1: The early years Humble beginnings My first attempt at writing a chess engine was at the age of 15 (or something close to that.) After finishing a program that could play noughts and crosses, I thought it was time for something more challenging – of course chess seemed like a nice challenge and …

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NagaSkaki is a freeware chess program for Windows. What makes NagaSkaki different from most other chess programs is the personalities. Some personalities play so weak, almost everybody should be able to beat them while others are strong enough to beat most chess players. This makes it a perfect program to learn and enjoy chess, cause …

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NagaSkaki

NagaSkaki is a free, fully functional chess program for Windows 98, NT, XP and Vista. It is available for download and you are encouraged to distribute it to as many people as you want (as long as it’s free!) Features include:Opening BookLevels: Seconds/Move, Blitz, Tournament and different PersonalitiesChess ClocksLoad/Save pgn filesHash tableShows best move and evaluation of position …

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Solitaire & Board games

During my many years of working professionally with Chess game development, I have had several smaller side projects. Lately, I have had the chance to work professionally to develop recreational games like Sudoku and Solitaire. It’s been quite exciting as some of the mathematical challenges in these games are well-founded and more challenging to solve than …

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Welcome to Mayothi! NagaSkaki 5.00 has been released!  Now shows captured pieces, possible moves and more! Can you save electricity by switching your geyser off? We’ve done some experiments and have the results here! We’re busy updating NagaSkaki! New Features will include: – Show captured pieces– Easy setup of positions– Updated chess boards Hyper Terminal not quite your thing? Try …

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