Ufim, a WinBoard and UCI compliant chess engine by Niyaz Khasanov, written in Delphi, first released in December 2000 as first Russian WinBoard engine [1]. It is able to play Chess960 and to learn through an epd-file which acts as a kind of persistent hash table. Ufim further features entertaining weak levels in the range of 700 - 2000 Elo [2]. The most recent release, version 8.02 from July 2006, played a strong CCCCISC 2008 with 4/7. The author credits Bob Hyatt, Tom Kerrigan, Dušan Dobeš, and Fabien Letouzey et al. for many ideas used in Ufim.
Ufim river [3]

Selected Games

[Event "CCCCISC 2008"]
[Site "Moscow SDCHESS RGSU"]
[Date "2008.03.01"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Ufim 8.02"]
[Black "Booot 4.14 Moscow"]
[Result "1-0"]
 
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.e4 Nxc3 7.bxc3 c5 8.Rb1 O-O 
9.Be2 Nc6 10.d5 Ne5 11.Nxe5 Bxe5 12.Qd2 b6 13.f4 Bg7 14.O-O Qd7 15.c4 Bd4+ 
16.Kh1 Qa4 17.f5 Bd7 18.Rf3 Qa6 19.Ra3 Qc8 20.Rh3 Bg7 21.Qg5 Rd8 22.Qxe7 Re8 
23.Qh4 h5 24.fxg6 fxg6 25.Rhb3 Bg4 26.Bd3 Bd1 27.Ra3 Qg4 28.Qxg4 Bxg4 29.Bf4 
Bd4 30.Re1 Bb2 31.Rb3 Be5 32.Bxe5 Rxe5 33.Ra1 h4 34.h3 Bh5 35.a4 g5 36.a5 Rb8 
37.axb6 axb6 38.Ra5 Ree8 39.Ra6 Bg6 40.d6 Rbd8 41.Raxb6 Bxe4 42.Bxe4 Rxe4 
43.R3b5 Kf7 44.Rxc5 Ke6 45.Rxg5 Rxc4 46.Rh5 Rd4 47.Rh6+ Kf7 48.Rb7+ Kg8 49.Rbh7 
R8xd6 50.Rxd6 Rxd6 51.Rxh4 Kg7 52.Re4 Kg6 53.Kh2 Kf5 54.Rb4 Kg5 55.h4+ Kh5 
56.Kh3 Rd3+ 57.g3 Kh6 58.Kg4 Rd7 59.Rb6+ Kh7 60.h5 Rd1 61.h6 Rc1 62.Kh4 Kg8 
63.g4 Kh7 64.Kh5 Rh1+ 65.Kg5 Rd1 66.Rb7+ Kh8 67.Kg6 Rd6+ 68.Kh5 Rd1 69.Re7 Kg8 
70.g5 Rd5 71.Kg6 Rd6+ 72.Kf5 Rd2 73.Rg7+ Kh8 74.Rf7 Rd5+ 75.Kf4 Rd6 76.Rf6 Rd1 
1-0

See also

• Geography

Forum Posts

• Ufim 1.40 by Niyaz Khasanov is available ! by Frank Quisinsky, Winboard Forum, April 29, 2001
• Ufim 1.43 by Niyaz Khasanov is available ! by Frank Quisinsky, Winboard Forum, May 26, 2001
• Bestia 0.90 vs Ufim 3.02 (1) 120'/40 (1/2) Commented game by Kurt Utzinger, Winboard Forum, March 04, 2003 » Bestia
  Bestia 0.90 vs Ufim 3.02 (3) 120'/40 (1-0) Commented game by Kurt Utzinger, Winboard Forum, March 07, 2003
  Bestia 0.90 vs Ufim 3.02 (5) 120'/40 [0-1] Commented game by Kurt Utzinger, Winboard Forum, March 08, 2003
  Ufim 3.02 vs Bestia 090 (8) 120'/40 [1-0] Commented game by Kurt Utzinger, Winboard Forum, March 10, 2003
• New versions Ufim 5.03 by Niyaz Khasanov! by Serge, Winboard Forum, December 25, 2004
• Ufim 8.02 FRC bug (please forward this to the author) by Volker Pittlik, Winboard Forum, July 30, 2006
• Have fun with Ufim! by Volker Pittlik, Winboard Forum, September 24, 2006
• Ufim 8.02+Mephisto London 030 vs. CCC Forum Chess960 by Steve Blincoe, CCC, November 01, 2009

External Links

Chess Engine

• Ufim - Нияза Хасанова, Россия from sdchess.ru
• Ufim from WBEC Ridderkerk
• Ufim 8.02 in CCRL 40/40
• Ufim 8.02 in KCEC

Misc

• Ufim | Ethnologue
• Panoramio - Photo of Ufim River
• Geoview - Ufim River

References

1. ^ Ufim - Нияза Хасанова, Россия from sdchess.ru
2. ^ Ufim from WBEC Ridderkerk
3. ^ Looking up the Ufim River near the confluence of the Umi and Ufim, which is the beginning of the Markham River located in Morobe, Papua New Guinea. Bamboo footbridge is frequently washed away and rebuilt. The picture was taken by the photographer Timotheon on August 18, 2013 and published over Panoramio, Panoramio - Photo of Ufim River, Geoview - Ufim River
4. ^ The The First championship of the CIS (Первый официальный чемпионат СНГ) - PGN download from sdchess.ru

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