Zap!Chess
 Zap!Chess
is now available!
BCM price £37.99
Zap!Chess
Zap!Chess is the commercial version of Zappa, the 2005 World Computer
Chess Champion. The CD-ROM contains two versions: Paderborn and
Reykjavik.
Zap!Chess contains one of the best parallel implementations in the world
to run efficiently on multiple CPU systems, and it also uses 64-bit machines
to their full potential. But don't despair if you own a smaller system,
both versions come with an implementation of Singular Extensions, the
famous Deep Blue search algorithm. They are disabled by default, but they
increase the tactical strength of the program at the cost of positional
strength.
Zap!Chess programmer Anthony Cozzie says: "Reykjavik is the
version that won the World Championship; Paderborn includes some ideas
from my work at Illinois. I myself do not know which one is better;
you'll have to find that out for yourself!"
"The style of the program reflects my background as a computer
engineer. Rather than developing clever search tricks that may or may
not work, I concentrated on getting the most out of modern hardware.
Zap!Chess contains one of the best parallel implementations in
the world to run efficiently on multiple CPU systems, and it also uses
64-bit machines to their full potential. The program contains large
amounts of chess knowledge, and like most modern programs it is tuned
fairly aggressively – it knows where the opponent‘s king lives.
This gives it an exciting style without being unsound. While the program
is optimized for long time controls and big hardware, don‘t despair
if you own a smaller system. Both versions come with an implementation
of Singular Extensions, the famous Deep Blue search algorithm. They
are disabled by default, but they increase the tactical strength of
the program at the cost of positional strength.
Enjoy, Anthony Cozzie"
About the author: Zap!Chess programmer Anthony Cozzie (MS ECE, CMU 2003)
is currently a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. He divides his time between cutting edge research,
computer chess, basketball, and shepherding his hapless flock of undergraduates
through basic computer science.
Fritz-style Appearance
- has the same Fritz-style interface as Fritz, Shredder, Junior, etc
- comes with 1 million+ game database
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Minimum: Pentium II 300 MHz, 64 MB
RAM, Windows Me, 2000, XP, CD-ROM drive, Windows Media Player 9. Recommended:
Pentium IV 2.2 GHz or more, 256 MB RAM, Windows XP, GeForce5 graphics
card (or equivalent) with 128 MB RAM or more 100% compatible with DirectX,
sound card, Windows Media Player 9, CD-ROM drive.
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