Victor Zakharov

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Victor Zakharov, a Russian computer scientist holding a Ph.D. in CS from Lomonosov Moscow State University, entrepreneur, founder of ChessOK aka Convekta, head of its development, primary developer of Chess Assistant and Aquarium, and scientific secretary at the Institute of Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Also affiliated with the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Victor Zakharov is along with Vladimir Makhnychev involved in generating the 7-men Lomonosov Tablebases, using the Lomonosov Supercomputer. As of December 31, 2013, the tablebases are commercially available online through ChessOK products.

=See also=
 * Aquarium
 * Chess Assistant
 * ChessOK
 * Lomonosov Tablebases

=Selected Publications=
 * Victor Zakharov, Vladimir Makhnychev (2010). A Retroanalysis Algorithm for Supercomputer Systems on the Example of Playing Chess. Software Systems and Tools, Vol. 11 (Russian)
 * Victor Zakharov, Vladimir Makhnychev (2013). Creating tables of chess 7-piece endgames on the Lomonosov supercomputer. Superkomp’yutery, No. 15
 * Victor Zakharov, Michael G. Malkovsky, Vladislav Y. Shchukin (2016). Compression of underdetermined data in a 7-piece chess table. Moscow University Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Vol. 40, No. 1

=Forum Posts=
 * Re: convekta tablebase announcement by Victor Zakharov, CCC, April 28, 2004
 * utility for testing tablebases integrity by Victor Zakharov, CCRL Discussion Board, October 24, 2007
 * Rajlich/Osipov/Rybka/Strelka/Answers by Convekta by Eduard Nemeth, CCC, January 17, 2008 » Rybka, Strelka, Convekta

=External Links=
 * ChessAssistance.com A talk with Victor Zakharov, head of Convekta development, part a by Robert Pawlak, February 02, 2003
 * A talk with Victor Zakharov, head of Convekta development, part b by Robert Pawlak, February 14, 2003


 * ChessAssistance.com All you ever wanted to know about Convekta by Robert Pawlak, September 12, 2004

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