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Computer-Chess Wiki
Links
Websites of General Interest
- Winboard FAQ - Up to date information, hosted here at the wiki.
- old Winboard FAQ of historic interest only, it is hopelessly out of date!
- WinBoard 4.4 H.G. Muller's latest improvement.
- Chess GUI - an interessting Chess GUI by Matthias Gemuh
- Glarean Magazine - Difficult chess puzzles and endgame tests from Walter Eigenmann (translated from German by Google)
- The Chess Portal - Per-Åke Lindblom's up-to-date categorized links to chess-related sites. “Estimated number of links on the 25th of April 2009: 4542”
- Tim Mann - this site is getting old and outdated
Engine Download Sites
- Chess Engine List - our own list, hosted here at the wiki.
- Engine Anthology List - from Guenther Simon's RWBC
- Last Update List - from Leo's WBEC
- Links, Engine List - Michael Diosi's list on the Arena site
Websites with Chess Tournaments and Ratings
- Gunnar Blomstrand's Winboard Tournaments (Swedish)
- CCRL (Doesn't use engine's own book)
- CEGT (Doesn't use engine's own book)
- KCEC Kirill Kryukov's site w/ pgn downloads
- Open Source Rating List - A Russian site
- SD Chess (Translated to English by Google)
- Le Système du Suisse (Translated to English by Google)
Free Chess Tools and Utilities
Playing Strength Calculations (Elo, etc.)
- Bayesian Elo Rating by Rémi Coulom
- EloStat by Frank Schubert (download hosted by Leo Dijksman)
- Chessmetrics by Jeff Sonas
- EloRater by James Garner - Harkness System or a USCF style systems
- Web rating difference calculator by Jonathan Kreuzer (SlowChess)
Tournament Managers
- FSTM - by Fermin Serrano. Fermin Serrano's Tournament Manager for Winboard. Supports mp, Round Robin and Gauntlet. Built-in Bayes Elo, EPDs of 130 starting positions.
- Galis WBTM - Galis Winboard Tournament Manager by Nikola Bacic. (download hosted by Leo Dijksman) Supports Round Robin and Gauntlet. Can generate html cross-table from tournament results.
- PSWBTM - by Pradu Kannan. Pradu's Simple Winboard Tournament Manager. Supports Round Robin and Gauntlet.
- Round Robin for chess engines - by Marco Broglia to generate a Round Robin tournament schedule, running the matches and suited to create a ranking in different styles
- Alex WBTM (WinMan) - Winboard Manager by Alex Guerrero. Supports Round Robin and Gauntlet. Can do playing strength calculations (requires BayesElo). Also supports UCI engines in Winboard (requires Polyglot). Supports Nunn tournaments with starting positions. Download chess fonts for Winboard too!
- IG WBTM - Igor Gorelikov's Winboard Tournament Manager. Can play multiple gauntlets.
- Dann Corbit - a compilation of (mostly older) tournament software
- LittleBlitzer - a Windows tournament manager program by Kimien Software for UCI engines
Pairings Managers
- Chess Pairing by Harald Lögdahl - Supports Swiss, Nordic Swiss and Monrad pairings
- JavaPairing by Eugenio Cervesato. A tool to manage chess tournaments for Windows, Linux , Macintosh etc. Functions: for example registration (players / rounds) , including results / ranking / crosstables, supports Swiss Dutch, Amalfi rating, Round Robin and other systems
- Sevilla by J.P. Hendriks; Supports Swiss (rating/Dutch, Buchholtz/SB, Dubov, Lim), Keizer (ranking, TPR and “Sevilla percentage”), Round robin (Berger and Rutsch), and Amsterdam
- SOSS Chess pairings, reporting, and tournament administration. Open source.
- Tournament Manager by David Safranek (Safrad). A pairings manager supporting Round Robin and Swiss.
- Vega Tournament administration program supporting Dubov Swiss and Round Robin pairings. Large and elaborate program. Free for Linux only. Free version limited to 30 players max. -
Live Games Broadcast
- Tom's Live Chess Viewer/Server by Tom McBurney; Broadcast and view live games
- Palive by Eric Bentzen - Replay pgn games and broadcast live games
