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Zappa (chess)

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based on the strength of the engines, but the differences in style provided an interesting match with several decisive games and many fighting draws. For some time, Zappa was considered one of the two strongest commercially available chess programs; see engine rating lists like
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Immediately after the successful WCCC 2005, there were plans to commercialize Zappa, but the first attempts with Vincent Diepeveen failed. In April 2006, a commercial version dubbed
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In June 2010, Zach Wegner announced that he had acquired the rights to maintain and improve the Zappa engine. The improved engine competed in the 2010
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Despite Zappa being a relative newcomer, it managed to win the tournament and in general caused a bit of a stir in the computer chess community.
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Here Zappa played Re1, threatening Qxa5 Rxa5 Rxe8#; the game continued 43... Qf6 (if Rxe1 then Qg7#) 44. Rxe5 Qxe5 45. Ba2+ Kh8 46. Rd8 1–0.
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In March 2008 Anthony Cozzie announced that "the Zappa project is 100% finished", which includes both tournaments and future releases.
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computers with up to 512 CPU cores and supports multipv analysis and Nalimov
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for current rankings. Some speculate that Zappa's more efficient
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parallel search could make it stronger on enough processors.
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placed first but the program was found to have plagiarized
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In Mexico in September 2007 Zappa won a match against
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The version of Zappa that won the Zappa-Rybka match,
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written by Anthony Cozzie, a graduate student at the
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Index

Zappa (Chess engine)
Developer(s)
Stable release
Operating system
Microsoft Windows
Linux
Type
Chess engine
License
Proprietary
www.acoz.net/zappa/
Chess programming

Board representations
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Bitboards
Evaluation functions
Deep neural networks
Transformers
Attention
Efficiently updatable neural networks
Handcrafted evaluation functions
Piece-square tables
Reinforcement learning
Stochastic gradient descent
Supervised learning
Texel tuning
Unsupervised learning
Graph
tree

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