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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

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• 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
  • Pawn Hash Table
  • 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 ( what a name for a chess program) by Jorge Pichard, CCC, September 14, 2003
• Nagaskaki chess program by Lyn Harper, CCC, January 07, 2004
• NagaSkaki 4.0 by Robert Hollay, CCC, January 18, 2006
• 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: A Free chess program for Windows (2003, NagaSkaki 2.0)
• NagaSkaki 5.12 in CCRL 40/15

References

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