In the past few weeks I have been actively working on Zahak, and I have made a very good progress. I think it warrants a version cut at this point, this version comes with a bunch of new features and fixes, and in self play shows a progress of around 235 Elo points, which I think it is a bit generous, and the progress …

Today ZaTour season 1 wrapped up. Loki performed consistently and didn’t disappoint. With a great endgame skill, he easily held the first spot with 100.5 points out of 120 (+92 -11 =17). Most of the wins, came with very resilient endgame play. Many drawish and lost games turned into wins thanks to superb endgame …

ZaTour tournament is a chess engine to engine tournament, and organized by me (Zahak author). The name stands for Zahak Tournament. Every engine is welcome to participate as long as: CCRL rating (blitz or 40/15) lower than 2800. That is right, the idea is to give a chance to lower-tier/mid-tier engines to shine! The …

I have been trying very hard to implement king-safety measurements in the evaluation function. At first, I took it lightly and added all the dream features that I knew of at once: Attacks to the king Pawn shield for the castled king Open files on the castled king Awards for castling Obviously, implementing all the …

Hey! I am Zahak, and I am a Chess engine! I am strong enough to beat you (yes, even if you are a grandmaster), but not that strong to leave you no chances. I have been written as hobby by Amanj Sherwany, and my sources are on GitHub. What does Zahak mean you may ask? well Zahak (or Zahhak or Azhi Dahak) is an evil …