What is Zappa Zanizbar??

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What is Zappa Zanizbar??

Post by ArmyBridge »

Hi, in the past championship it appeared a engine called Zappa Zanzibar...I thought that Antony had stopped to develop Zap!Chess, and few day ago I was reviewing a data base of playchess.com and I find several games of Zappa Zanzibar, What is this? somebody knows if it is the same one that played in the world chess champ.? and what is it?. help me please :)
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Re: What is Zappa Zanizbar??

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ArmyBridge wrote:Hi, in the past championship it appeared a engine called Zappa Zanzibar...I thought that Antony had stopped to develop Zap!Chess, and few day ago I was reviewing a data base of playchess.com and I find several games of Zappa Zanzibar, What is this? somebody knows if it is the same one that played in the world chess champ.? and what is it?. help me please :)
It's a upgrade /update to Zap!Chess. If it says Zanzibar then it should be the same program. :wink:

http://chessbase.com/download/index.asp
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Re: What is Zappa Zanizbar??

Post by ArmyBridge »

And why the tester (CEGT and CCRL) don´t have test it yet? I´m Confuse :?
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Re: What is Zappa Zanizbar??

Post by Harvey Williamson »

AdminX wrote:
ArmyBridge wrote:Hi, in the past championship it appeared a engine called Zappa Zanzibar...I thought that Antony had stopped to develop Zap!Chess, and few day ago I was reviewing a data base of playchess.com and I find several games of Zappa Zanzibar, What is this? somebody knows if it is the same one that played in the world chess champ.? and what is it?. help me please :)
It's a upgrade /update to Zap!Chess. If it says Zanzibar then it should be the same program. :wink:

http://chessbase.com/download/index.asp
It is the same its just a private UCI version so that Erdo can play outside the CB GUI.
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Re: What is Zappa Zanizbar??

Post by Martin Thoresen »

ArmyBridge wrote:And why the tester (CEGT and CCRL) don´t have test it yet? I´m Confuse :?
We have testet it.

Here you can see all Zap(pa) versions we have tested:

http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/40 ... _length=30

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Martin