Victor Zakharov, a Russian computer scientist holding a Ph.D. in CS from Lomonosov Moscow State University, entrepreneur, founder of ChessOk aka Convekta, head of its development, primary developer of Chess Assistant [1] and Aquarium [2], and scientific secretary at the Institute of Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow [3]. Also affiliated with the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Victor Zakharov is along with Vladimir Makhnychev involved in generating the 7-men Lomonosov Tablebases [4] [5], using the Lomonosov Supercomputer [6]. As of December 31, 2013, the tablebases are commercially available online through ChessOk products [7].
Victor Zakharov [8]

See also

• Aquarium
• Chess Assistant
• ChessOk
• Lomonosov Tablebases

Selected Publications

• Victor Zakharov, Vladimir Makhnychev (2010). A Retroanalysis Algorithm for Supercomputer Systems on the Example of Playing Chess. Software Systems and Tools, Vol. 11 (Russian)
• Victor Zakharov, Vladimir Makhnychev (2013). Creating tables of chess 7-piece endgames on the Lomonosov supercomputer. Superkomp’yutery, No. 15
• Victor Zakharov, Michael G. Malkovsky, Vladislav Y. Shchukin (2016). Compression of underdetermined data in a 7-piece chess table. Moscow University Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Vol. 40, No. 1 ^[9]

Forum Posts

• Re: convekta tablebase announcement by Victor Zakharov, CCC, April 28, 2004
• utility for testing tablebases integrity by Victor Zakharov, CCRL Discussion Board, October 24, 2007
• Rajlich/Osipov/Rybka/Strelka/Answers by Convekta by Eduard Nemeth, CCC, January 17, 2008 » Rybka, Strelka, Convekta

External Links

• ChessAssistance.com A talk with Victor Zakharov, head of Convekta development, part a by Robert Pawlak, February 02, 2003
  ChessAssistance.com A talk with Victor Zakharov, head of Convekta development, part b by Robert Pawlak, February 14, 2003
• ChessAssistance.com All you ever wanted to know about Convekta by Robert Pawlak, September 12, 2004
• Ippolit/Robbolito/Igorrit/IvanHoe/Firebird - Interview with Victor Zakharov from Convekta, January 24, 2010, Arena Chess GUI, News-Ticker, Page 11, 191, MD
• About - ChessOK.com

References

1. ^ About - ChessOK.com
2. ^ Lomonosov Endgame Tablebases - History Note - ChessOK
3. ^ The Institute of Informatics Problems of The Russian Academy of Sciences (IPI RAN)
4. ^ Endgame tablebase from Wikipedia - Background
5. ^ 7-man TB - Google+
6. ^ MSU SUPERCOMPUTERS: "LOMONOSOV" | Moscow University Supercomputing Center
7. ^ Lomonosov Endgame Tablebases - ChessOK
8. ^ This is Victor, sometimes mad scientist, jack of all trades, and the primary creative genius at Convekta :-) from ChessAssistance.com All you ever wanted to know about Convekta by Robert Pawlak, September 12, 2004
9. ^ tablebase compression / academic integrity by Ronald de Man, CCC, May 19, 2016

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