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NagaSkaki, a Chess Engine Communication Protocol compatible chess program by Neels Groenewald with an own graphical user interface. Various evaluation features such as point values are adjustable through a ini-file with personality sections.

=Features=

Board Representation

 * Bitboards
 * Classical Board Definition
 * Shifted Bitboards

Search

 * Iterative Deepening
 * Alpha-Beta
 * Transposition Table
 * Move Ordering
 * Hash Move
 * Internal Iterative Deepening
 * MVV/LVA
 * Killer Heuristic
 * History Heuristic
 * Selectivity
 * Pruning
 * Futility Pruning
 * Extended Futility Pruning
 * Null Move Pruning
 * Extensions
 * Check Extensions
 * Passed Pawn Extensions
 * Recapture Extensions
 * Quiescence Search

Evaluation

 * Material
 * Point Values (100, 310, 320, 500, 1000)
 * Bishop Pair
 * Piece-Square Tables
 * Mobility
 * Trapped Pieces
 * Rooks on (Semi) Open Files
 * Knight Outposts
 * Pawn Structure
 * Backward Pawn
 * Doubled Pawn
 * Isolated Pawn
 * Connected Pawns
 * Passed Pawn
 * Unstoppable Passer
 * King Safety
 * Castling Rights
 * Pawn Shield
 * King Piece Tropism
 * Attacking King Zone
 * King close to Open File

=Forum Posts=
 * NagaSkaki 5.00 - nice free engine with GUI by Graham Banks, CCC, May 02, 2008
 * NagaSkaki 5.12 released by Graham Banks, CCC, May 13, 2008
 * NagaSkaki by TomFurga, Hiarcs Forum, December 18, 2020

=External Links=
 * NagaSkaki (Wayback Machine, October 07, 2011)
 * NagaSkaki 5.12 in CCRL 40/15

=References= Up one level