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Zarkov (Computer)

Number of games in database: 14
Years covered: 1990 to 1996
Overall record: +2 -12 =0 (14.3%)*
* Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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ZARKOV (COMPUTER)
(born 1988)

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John Stanback began developing Zarkov in 1988 after testing it against versions similar to a Excellence 4 mhz (Computer) computer. By 1989, its second version emerged in mail order from a company called Chess Laboratories. Grandmaster Chess licensed Zarkov 2.5 for a release as 1991 came to a close. Forte C for the Novag (Computer) and Saitek's Leonardo computers were sparring opponents that helped him and Max Harrell test its 3rd version in 1994. It placed 2nd in the ACM 1994 computer chess tournament.

Marc Leski joined the team for version 4 which was being developed for, but not - because of a cancellation with - Electronic Arts. Versions prior to 4.5 (unreleased - but could run as a Winboard engine) and back to 4.0.x could be run through Bookup and Chess Assistant programs and could be purchased through a company called Chess for Less. Zarkov 5 was released as a DLL file to run with the Millenium Chess Genius (Computer) 6 interface.

References: http://john.stanback.net/zarkov/zar... , http://chessprogramming.wikispaces....

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Game	Result	Moves	Year	Event/Locale	Opening
1. Deep Thought vs Zarkov	1-0	37	1990	21st NACCC	A36 English
2. Deep Thought vs Zarkov	1-0	57	1991	ACM Albuquerque	C99 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin, 12...cd
3. S Kelley vs Zarkov	1-0	26	1991	Narcossee	C34 King's Gambit Accepted
4. Bronstein vs Zarkov	1-0	48	1992	Aegon	E90 King's Indian
5. Zarkov vs M Pam	0-1	52	1993	Aegon Tournament	C34 King's Gambit Accepted
6. Zarkov vs Gulko	0-1	56	1994	08, Boston Harvard Cup	B74 Sicilian, Dragon, Classical
7. Joel Benjamin vs Zarkov	1-0	56	1994	11, Fifth Harvard Cup	D37 Queen's Gambit Declined
8. Zarkov vs Yermolinsky	1-0	69	1994	Fifth Harvard Cup	B57 Sicilian
9. Zarkov vs Shabalov	0-1	51	1994	Fifth Harvard Cup	D44 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
10. Deep Thought vs Zarkov	1-0	41	1994	24th NACCC	C39 King's Gambit Accepted
11. Zarkov vs K Burger	0-1	33	1995	-	A07 King's Indian Attack
12. Nunn vs Zarkov	1-0	64	1995	The Hague AEGON	C77 Ruy Lopez
13. Zarkov vs K Burger	0-1	53	1996	SR 10 15 8/8	A07 King's Indian Attack
14. Zsofia Polgar vs Zarkov	0-1	40	1996	The Hague AEGON	B17 Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation

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Oct-15-05		Benzol: Named after the "Flash Gordon" character Dr Zarkov?

Jul-30-12		wordfunph: IM Timothy Taylor from his book How to Defeat the Smith-Morra Gambit 6...a6 <Zarkov, a courteous gentleman of the old school (he always says "Congratulations!" when he loses), came on a floppy disk and fit nicely into my personal computer. He announces himself as version 2.61 - he plays a decent master level game.>

Jul-30-12		whiteshark: "<Zarkov>, a commercial chess program by John Stanback. The first version in 1989 was similar to John's GNU Chess 2.0, but used other data structures based on 0x88 and run under the MS-DOS operating system on PCs with its own GUI. In 1990, John Stanback discovered a new pruning technique, a combination of evaluation heuristics and reduced depth search, which was implemented in Zarkov 2.5, also market as Grandmaster Chess. Zarkov (Computer) stores positions in which the score changes significantly between a shallow search (about 2 plies) and a deeper search into a Persistent Hash Table, retrieved at the start of each game to make Zarkov (Computer) remember positions from previous games in its search to avoid worse positions in advance." ... Source: http://chessprogramming.wikispaces....

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A07		King's Indian Attack (2 games)
C34		King's Gambit Accepted (2 games)