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| | ====== Computer-Chess Wiki ====== |
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| | ===== News List ===== |
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| | Interesting computer-chess announcements and discoveries. (ie: Chess tools, Chess GUIs, pgn collections, computer-chess opening books in various formats, old chess engines, protocol translators, etc.) This list includes commercial, shareware, and free software. The major chess software is shown in bold. |
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| | Some of the 'discoveries' are not recent but only recently discovered by us. Some of this information cannot be found anywhere else. (Latest free engine releases can be found at [[computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list | the Chess Engine List.]]) |
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| | | 2014/10/14 | [[http://kvetka.org/en/ | Kvetka 3.23.2 Chess GUI]] - Supports UCI only; intended for game viewing and analysis; several plug-ins available; available in a portable version | |
| | | 2014/10/10 | [[http://fhub.jimdo.com/ | ChestUCI 5.2 & ChestUCI-DB]] - mate-finder program by Franz Huber & database of mate positions | |
| | ^ 2014/10/10 ^ [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=51528 | Winboard 4.8.0b]] - HG Muller's full release for Windows; [[http://hgm.nubati.net/WinBoard-4.8.0.exe | 4.8.0a(Win)]] [[http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/ | XBoard (Linux)]] [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=53274 | 4.8.0c(Mac)]] [[http://hgm.nubati.net/WinBoard-Portable.zip | Winboard beta]] ^ |
| | | 2014/11/05 | [[http://aartbik.blogspot.com/ | Chess for Android 4.5.1 (WB/UCI)]] - Aart Bik's free Chess GUI + chess engines for Android | |
| | | 2014/10/25 | [[http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/index.html | Scid vs. PC 4.13 Chess GUI (WB)]] - open source fork of Scid project enhanced for playing chess; Win32/64, Mac & .tgz source for Linux | |
| | | 2014/10/16 | [[http://hgm.nubati.net/ | Winboard/XBoard Alpha News]] - latest alpha news and latest alpha releases, [[http://hgm.nubati.net/news.html | XBoard Alpha News]]; [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=53274&sid=7054370ec22b477fccdc4a82287098c1 | latest build for Mac]]; [[http://hgm.nubati.net/WinBoard-4.8.beta.zip | latest Winboard Beta]] | |
| | | 2014/10/04 | [[http://sourceforge.net/projects/chessx/ | ChessX 1.2.2 (WB/UCI)]] - PGN database program for Win32/64, Mac64 & Linux with WB/UCI engine support for analysis only (not for playing) | |
| | | 2014/10/04 | **[[http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html | Norm Pollock site]]** - PGN, EPD, and TXT utilities; also Opening Book Databases | |
| | | 2014/09/19 | [[http://www.zeitnot.fr/index.php/pgnscanner/5-pgnscanner-eng | PgnScanner 0.92]] - PGN utility by Gabriel Guillory; scan and extract information from pgn files | |
| | | 2014/09/15 | [[http://www-lucaschess.rhcloud.com/ | Lucas Chess 8.09a]] - play chess against the computer with increasing levels of difficulty and with a limited number of hints that are given by a chess tutor; [[https://googledrive.com/host/0B0D6J3YCrUouRk1IcHVzSWNVZkk/ | download]] | |
| | | 2014/09/15 | [[https://sites.google.com/site/gaviotachessengine/ordo | Ordo 0.9.7]] - command line chess rating software (Elo-like) cross-platform, open source program by Miguel A Ballicora | |
| | | 2014/08/18 | [[http://sourceforge.net/projects/popeye-chess/ | Popeye 4.69]] - open source chess problem solving with support for variant play | |
| | | 2014/07/30 | [[http://www.sedatcanbaz.com/chess/?page_id=127 | Sedat Opening Book ]] - Perfect 2014 Opening Book by Sedat Canbaz | |
| | | 2014/07/14 | **[[http://scid.sourceforge.net/ | Scid 4.6]]** - a PGN database program for creating opening books, also a Chess GUI; lots of features; Win32, Linux, Mac & Pocket PC | |
| | | 2014/06/02 | [[http://www.chesszone.org/ | ChessZone]] - Free monthly chess magazine of annotated GM games | |
| | | 2014/04/10 | [[http://valters-and.co.cc/crafty/gui.php | Crafty Chess Interface 9.0 (WB)]] - chess GUI for Crafty with nice wood board by Valters Baumanis (requres VB6 run-time library & includes latest Crafty engine); supports WB engines | |
| | | 2014/04/07 | [[http://www.liliachess.org/ | LiliaChess Chess GUI 4.9.4.0 (WB/UCI)]] - Chess GUI by Carlo Bellentani written in Java with source code available | |
| | | 2014/03/02 | [[http://sites.google.com/site/strategictestsuite/ | STS Testsuites]] - 15 epd testsuites by Swaminathan and Dann Corbit; Undermining; Open Files and Diagonals; Knight Outposts; Square Vacancy; Bishop vs Knight; Re-Capturing; Offer of Simplification; Advancement of f/g/h Pawns; Advancement of a/b/c Pawns; Simplification; Activity of the King; Center Control; Pawn Play in the Center; Queens and Rooks to the 7th; Avoid Pointless Exchange; there is also a STS Stat 3.2 utility and an Elo estimator 1.0 | |
| | | 2014/03/27 | [[http://www.arasanchess.org/testsuite.shtml | Arasan Test Suite]] - from Jon Dart | |
| | | 2014/01/13 | [[http://www.top-5000.nl/prodeodos.htm | Protools 1.4]] - Ed Schröder's command-line tool for improving engines | |
| | | 2014/01/05 | [[http://innokuo.altervista.org/chesshero.html | Chess Hero 2.5]] - Chess trainer; produces test positions from PGN files; compare your best move to your favorite WB/UCI chess engine's choice; default engine is TogaII | |
| | ^ 2014/01/01 ^ [[http://www.playwitharena.com/ | Arena 3.5 Chess GUI (WB/UCI)]] - Nice-looking interface! comes with engines, GUI books, & GUI ebtb ^ |
| | ^ 2013/12/15 ^ [[http://w2410tmq9.homepage.t-online.de/ | ChessGUI 0.245g]] [[http://biglion.110mb.com | Alternate download site]] - A nice chess GUI / tournament manager for WB or UCI engines by Matthias Gemuh; there is a separate download for a portable version ^ |
| | | 2013/12/03 | [[http://www.open-aurec.com/chesswar/download.html | Olivier Deville's PGN collection]] - also a Polyglot book based on the PGN games; updated monthly | |
| | | 2013/07/15 | [[http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/eng.html | Chess Engines for Android]] - Aart Bik's download list of Android chess engine binaries | |
| | | 2013/07/12 | [[http://koti.mbnet.fi/~ilaripih/bin/ | Cutechess-cli 0.6.0 (WB/UCI)]] - by Ilari Pihlajisto; a cross-platform command line interface to run engine-engine games [[http://repo.or.cz/w/sloppygui.git | source]] [[http://ajonsson.kapsi.fi/cutechess.html | alt site]] | |
| | | 2013/07/11 | [[http://jimablett.net63.net/chess_755/chess-distros.html | Jim Ablett Linux Chess Distros]] - iso images to make a bootable CD/DVD; 32/64-bit versions; booting from this disk will not affect your Windows or Linux installation | |
| | | 2013/07/08 | [[http://www.triplehappy.com/ | Tarrasch GUI 2.02ar]] - open source UCI Chess GUI + chess engine by Bill Forster [[https://bitbucket.org/billforsternz/tarrasch-chess-gui | Code Repository]] | |
| | | 2013/07/05 | [[https://www.dropbox.com/s/a5c9e8m3vk6zq50/Six_Fortran_95_tools.rar | 6 statistical/probability tools (direct link)]] - by Jesús Muñoz | |
| | | 2013/06/17 | [[http://www.dashstofsk.net/penguin.html | Penguin 10.0]] - Penguin is a PGN viewer / reader / editor and GUI with a limited functionality UCI interface | |
| | | 2013/04/01 | [[http://scidb.sourceforge.net/index.html | Scidb Beta 2013-04-01, rev 701]] - open source cross-platform chess database project | |
| | | 2013/03/14 | [[http://code.google.com/p/scidonthego/ | Scid On The Go 1.42 for Andoid]] - database browser by Gerhard Kalab; open source fork of Scid project | |
| | | 2013/03/02 | [[http://www.top-5000.nl/pgn.htm | MillionBase 2.22]] - huge pgn collection from Ed Shroeder | |
| | | 2013/02/07 | [[http://www.chessdiagrammer.com/cdg_startpage.html | Chessdiagrammer 8.2]] - Chess Diagram creator | |
| | | 2012/12/02 | [[http://www.shredderchess.com/ | Shredder for for PDAs]] - commercial engine for Android, and iPhone/iPad/iPod | |
| | | 2012/11/11 | [[http://www.top-5000.nl/match.htm | Match 1.3a]] - Ed Schröder program to monitor live engine-engine games showing win/loss scoring, LOS, & Elo at 10 second intervals, or pgn analysis post-match | |
| | | 2012/10/27 | [[http://sourceforge.net/projects/icsdrone/files/ | icsdroneng 0.28]] - by Michel Van den Bergh; acts as a command line interface between ICS/FICS and a WB-compatible chess engine; UCI engines are supported by using Polyglot adapter | |
| | | 2012/10/14 | Talkchess 2012 Hard PGN Testset - [[http://home.scarlet.be/vincentlejeune/hard-talkchesscom-2012-beta-september.pgn | direct link]]; very difficult testsuite compiled and maintained by Vincent Lejeune | |
| | | 2012/10/02 | **[[http://hardy.uhasselt.be/Toga/polyglot-release/ | Polyglot 1.4.70b]]** - Michel Van den Bergh's Linux and Windows builds based on Fonzy Bluemers modification of Fabien Letouzey's Polyglot with original work and bugfixes | |
| | | 2012/08/26 | [[http://www.lanternchess.com/ | Lantern Chess GUI 4.94]] - Chess GUI by Mike Adams supporting WB & UCI for ICC online play/chat for Linux, Windows and Mac | |
| | | 2012/07/17 | [[http://hgm.nubati.net/p2p.html | P2P 0.3]] - HG Muller's WB adapter; runs under a GUI as a WB engine, used for connecting to remote GUIs | |
| | | 2012/06/06 | [[http://www.kimiensoftware.com/littlethought/littleblitzer.php | LittleBlitzer 2.74 (UCI)]] - Windows tournament manager program for UCI chess engines by Nathan Thom; intended for very fast time control games | |
| | | 2012/06/04 | [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.daniel.alienboard | AlienBoard 1.3]] - Android GUI for playing chess, variants, checkers, Go, Reversi, and more | |
| | | 2012/05/30 | **[[http://americanfoot.free.fr/echecs/ctg-thematique.htm | Patrick Buchmann Thematic books]]** - Thematic opening books | |
| | | 2012/04/20 | UCI2WB 1.9 - allows UCI engines to play in a WB environment [[http://hgm.nubati.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi | (source)]] | |
| | | 2012/02/26 | [[http://www.wmlsoftware.com/index.html | ChessPad 2.0.3 GUI]] - Create and manage PGN databases; game viewer/editor; WB/UCI engine analysis; annotate games; create position diagrams; play chess engines | |
| | | 2012/01/21 | **[[http://www.geenvis.net/pg.html | Polyglot 1.4w29]]** - Fonzy Bluemers modification of Polyglot by Fabien Letouzey. Polyglot is a UCI to WB adapter. THsi version does not require cygwin.dll, extends the features a bit, and prevents occasional time losses too; it includes Michel Van den Bergh's work to use Polyglot opening books plus some code from Eric Mullins for pv display, white point-of-view scoring, and adjustment of process priority | |
| | | 2011/11/05 | [[http://remi.coulom.free.fr/CLOP/ | CLOP 0.0.9]] - by Rémi Coulom; used to tune chess engine parameters | |
| | | 2011/10/09 | [[http://webchess.freehostia.com/diag/index.php | Chess Diagram Generator]] - creates a graphic board display (png, gif) from a fen position | |
| | | 2011/10/04 | [[http://www.powerchessproject.org/computer-chess-games-databases.html | Power Chess PGN Databases]] - long time control, multiprocessor engine/engine games in PGN format | |
| | | 2011/09/13 | [[http://www.jinchess.com/ | Jin Chess GUI 2.14.1 ]] - GUI for chess servers; supports ICS and FICS on Windows, Mac, and Linux | |
| | | 2011/08/31 | [[http://www.fam-petzke.de/chess_home_en.shtml | Chess Engine GUI 0.2 Build 1070 (UCI)]] - Chess GUI; "works with both iCE and mACE engines" | |
| | | 2011/08/19 | [[http://sourceforge.net/projects/bagaturchess/files/BagaturEngine/ | BagaturPgnTool]] - Java source PGN reader & opening book creator for Java programmers | |
| | | 2011/07/25 | [[http://home.comcast.net/~Normand_Blais/ | ChessMaude 1.34 Chess GUI (WB/UCI)]] - play against any Winboard or UCI compatible engine or play against included 1600-1700 Elo engine named Tyrell) | |
| | | 2011/06/05 | [[http://www.mediafire.com/?efhpap9287cva9a | Charlotte 1.0]] - Dr. Wael Deeb Opening Book for ChessGUI | |
| | | 2011/05/12 | [[http://sites.google.com/site/clonfsp/fstm | FSTM 1.0.8 Beta]] - Fermin Serrano's Tournament Manager for Winboard | |
| | | 2011/05/11 | [[http://julien.marcel.free.fr/public/BLH_Win.rar | Bitboards' Little Helper]] - by Julien Marcel, written in C++ & used for debugging a chess engine | |
| | | 2011/05/11 | [[http://thief.sourceforge.net/ | Thief 1.25]] - open source chess GUI for FICS chess servers; supports variants | |
| | | 2011/04/15 | [[http://www.onnochess.com/index.html?ufte.html | UFTE 1.0 (WB/UCI)]] - UFTE - Ultra Fast Tournament Environment by Onno Garms; command line interface for playing high-speed games | |
| | | 2011/03/31 | [[http://www.chessbin.com/page/Download-Chess-Bin-Chess-Game.aspx | ChessBin GUI]] - simple WB chess GUI; requires .NET Framework 2.0 or higher | |
| | | 2011/03/29 | [[https://github.com/jhlywa/chess.js | JavaScript Chess Library]] - JavaScript source code by Jeff Hlywa | |
| | | 2011/03/11 | [[http://github.com/michiguel/Gaviota-Tablebases | Gaviota Endgame Tablebases Probing Code 0.4]] - Miguel Ballicora's open source probing code for engine programmers (in C language) | |
| | | 2011/03/08 | [[http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chesstiger/id423198259 | ChessTiger for iPhone/iPad/iPod]] - commercial; chess GUI and engine | |
| | | 2011/02/14 | EPD Endgame Suite - by Martin Wyngaarden [[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11904592/EG_MSa.epd | direct link]] | |
| | | 2011/02/14 | [[http://members.ziggo.nl/allard.siemelink/spark/ | FRCPerft]] - fast Fischer Random Chess perft; C++ source; Win32/64, Linux32/64 & Mac32/64 | |
| | | 2011/02/05 | [[http://www.lokasoft.nl/downloads.htm | ChessPartner 6.0.4]] - Commercial chess GUI (WB/UCI); opening book database, online play, analysis, etc. | |
| | | 2011/01/03 | [[http://americanfoot.free.fr/echecs/hsbook.htm | Harry Schnapp books]] - Opening Books for Arena, ChessBase, Aquarium & Shredder Classic; the 'Suite' downloads contain pgn files | |
| | | 2010/12/17 | [[http://fhub.110mb.com/ | MaterUCI 3.2]] - mate-solver from Franz Huber; "modified and improved version of Valentin Albillo's matesolver 'Mater'" | |
| | | 2010/11/20 | [[http://chesscoach.zzl.org/ | Chess Coach]] - commercial; includes Naum mp engine; free evaluation version has limited functionality | |
| | | 2010/11/15 | [[http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stockfish-chess/id305558605?mt=8 | Stockfish 2.2 for iPad/iPhone]] - iPad/iPhone chess program, source code available; [[http://www.glaurungchess.com/iphone/ | old Glaurung link]] | |
| | | 2010/09/20 | [[http://www.arasanchess.org/open2028.pgn | Jon Dart 4500 opening positions]] - 4500 opening positions in pgn format | |
| | | 2010/09/09 | [[http://www.chess-mind.com/ | ChessMind 0.9.6.2]] - play chess online for free | |
| | | 2010/09/01 | [[http://www.mayura.com/chess/ | Mayura Chess Board 2.3 (UCI)]] - UCI chess GUI with Toga & Easy Peasey engines; requires .NET version 2.0 or better | |
| | | 2010/08/24 | [[http://www.chesspraga.cz/engine-turn/testsets/ph-testsets2010.rar | Pavel Háse testsets]] - Starting position testsets by Pavel Háse | |
| | | 2010/07/02 | [[http://forwardcoding.com/projects/ajaxchess/chess.html | Ajax Chess 3.0]] - online Javascript chess opponent by Gary Linscott (GarboChess); it only plays as Black | |
| | | 2010/07/02 | [[http://www.pocketgrandmaster.com/english/dload.html | PocketGrandmaster 4.3]] - commercial chess program (shareware); for Windows Mobile | |
| | | 2010/06/24 | [[http://www.chess-poster.com/fen/epd_fen.htm | Maro's EPD2diag JavaScript]] - create html code from epd/fen diagram or by setting up a position | |
| | | 2010/06/14 | [[http://nanochess.110mb.com/index.html | Toledo Javascript Chess]] - another on-line Javascript chess opponent | |
| | | 2010/04/02 | [[http://rybkaforum.net/cgi-bin/rybkaforum/topic_show.pl?tid=16085 | Chess Game Report]] - by Jack Welbourne; Win64 only; calculates Elo performance for a single pgn game; uses Stockfish engine; [[http://rybkaforum.net/mwf/rybkaattach/68/234068/ChessGameReport.exe | direct link]] [[http://rybkaforum.net/mwf/rybkaattach/68/234068/ReadMe.txt | ReadMe.txt]] | |
| | | 2010/04/01 | [[http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/download.htm | Salvo's Opening Suite]] - PGN file by Salvo Spitaleri of 50 opening positions deemed to be "equal" | |
| | | 2010/03/16 | [[http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~tony/Public/Awit-Wita-ComputerChess/ | Awit 09MH1.5]] - old chess engine with AlgolW source by Tony Marsland (*not* WB, *not* UCI!); implements selective search (forward pruning); [[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5047625/awit-2009-win32-ja.zip | Jim Ablett build]] | |
| | | 2010/02/25 | [[http://cid-efd9259f77f9e731.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/.Public/Logos | David Dahlem Logos]] - Chess engine logos | |
| | | 2010/01/28 | [[http://americanfoot.free.fr/echecs/ctg-thematique.htm | Thematic books]] - abk & ctg books by Patrick Buchmann | |
| | | 2010/01/22 | [[http://www.ideabuilders.com/public/ | iNemisis 5.0]] - Chess GUI for human FICS online play | |
| | | 2010/01/07 | [[http://www.olympuschess.com/egtb/gaviota/ | Gaviota Endgame Tablebases]] - for 3-4-5 man in bzip2 format; hosted by Joshua Shriver | |
| | | 2009/12/21 | [[http://www.igrandmaster.de/ | iGranMaster 1.0]] - commercial engine for iPod/iPhone/iTouch | |
| | | 2009/12/10 | [[http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/huochess | Huo Chess]] - open source native chess engine for didactic purposes, also available in [[http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/cshuochess | C#]], [[http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/vbhuochess | Visual Basic]], or [[http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/xnahuochess | XNA GUI]] | |
| | | 2009/12/05 | [[http://www.stefanomalloggi.altervista.org/html/iphone.htm | PGN Viewer for iPhone]] - Free app by Stefano Malloggi (Chaturanga) | |
| | | 2009/11/25 | [[http://home.arcor.de/dreamlike/ | OliThink]] - play against this engine online | |
| | | 2009/10/04 | [[http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%2Fpagesperso-orange.fr%2Fechecs88%2Findex.html&sl=fr&tl=en&history_state0= | Endgame Testsuite]] - 180 endgame test positions in PGN & cbv(Chessbase) format. | |
| | | 2009/09/17 | [[http://home.pacific.net.au/~tommyinoz/gameanalyser.html | Game Analyser 1.6 ]] - by Thomas McBurney. Analyzes annotated pgn games and Winboard debug files. | |
| | | 2009/08/20 | [[http://bremboce.cisana.com/ | BremboCE]] - Humans can play on-line against this Java chess engine by Gianluca Cisana | |
| | | 2009/07/24 | [[http://fhub.110mb.com/ | ChesUCI 5.1]] - Probably the world´s best and fastest matesolver by Franz Huber | |
| | | 2009/06/14 | [[http://cid-2991af457de54bf0.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/MobileThinkerBoard-0.2.0028.CAB | Mobile ThinkerBoard 0.2.0028]] - play chess on a PocketPC | |
| | | 2009/06/14 | [[http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/Mainsworthy.html | Mainsworthy GUI]] - Chess GUI for Mainsworthy engine(s) by Mark Ainsworth. [[http://members.lycos.co.uk/mainsworthy/ | Alternate download]] | |
| | | 2009/06/10 | [[http://remi.coulom.free.fr/Bayesian-Elo/ | BayesElo]] - Elo-rating program by Rémi Coulom | |
| | | 2009/05/15 | [[http://sanher.de/index.htm?lang=eng&url=bitfuncs | Bit functions for Delphi/Pascal]] - source code for chess engines by Andreas Herrmann | |
| | | 2009/05/13 | [[http://nanochess.110mb.com/chess2.html | ToledoChess 2]] - by Óscar Toledo Gutiérrez, a tiny engine with GUI using X11 library | |
| | | 2009/05/04 | [[http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fpagesperso-orange.fr%2Fechecs88%2Findex.html&sl=fr&tl=en&history_state0= | Endgame Testsuite]] - by Ludovic Didierlaurent; in PGN and CBV formats | |
| | | 2009/04/03 | [[http://dshawul.googlepages.com/home | Scorpio bitbases egbbdll 3.3]] - by Daniel Shawul; also known as egbbs | |
| | | 2009/03/10 | [[http://webs.ono.com/a.valverde/xectool.htm | XECTool]] - free utility by Andres Valverde to play at the ICCF web server and others by Andres Valverde | |
| | | 2009/03/10 | [[http://webs.ono.com/a.valverde/ectool.htm | ECTool 7.01]] - free utility by Andres Valverde to help with the management of playing correspondence or email chess | |
| | | 2009/03/09 | [[http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/HaQiKiD.exe | HaQiKiD 0.1]] - Winboard engine from HG Muller that only plays variant xiangqi | |
| | | 2009/03/09 | [[http://cid-2991af457de54bf0.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/TinySeal-05.zip | Tiny Seal 0.5]] - a very small implementation of the TimeSeal utility for FICS (Free Internet Chess Server) | |
| | | 2009/03/05 | [[http://repo.or.cz/w/omniperft.git | OmniPerft]] - Perft utility, a chess engine debugging tool for 8x8 and 10x8 variants | |
| | | 2009/03/03 | [[http://chessok.com/ | Aquarium GUI]] - commercial product | |
| | | 2009/02/20 | [[http://www.chessopeningssoftware.com/ | Chess Openings Wizard]] - Commercial opening book database & teacher formerly known as Bookup; free limited-time download | |
| | | 2009/01/04 | [[http://fireflychess.dyndns.org/firefly/ | REGO]] - A java based live chess game viewer by Andrew Fan that uses the Tom's Live Chess Server/Viewer (TLCS/TLCV) protocol. | |
| | | 2009/01/04 | [[http://fireflychess.dyndns.org/firefly/ | WBRGO]] - Winboard Remote Games Observer by Andrew Fan that uses the Tom's Live Chess Server/Viewer (TLCS/TLCV) protocol. | |
| | | 2008/12/22 | [[http://chessbazaar.mylivepage.com/file/316/12162_UltraFast-WB-0.4.zip | UltraFast-WB-0.4]] - Marc Lacrosse package to play super-fast time control games in Winboard. | |
| | | 2008/12/06 | [[http://www.luthman.nu/Mobi/Mobi.html | Mobi for mobile phones/Palm]] - free download; FICS/ICC client for mobile phones/Palm | |
| | | 2008/12/06 | [[http://www.dfong.com/chessbd/index.html | ChesBd and Slics]] - free download; chess viewer and ICS client | |
| | | 2008/12/06 | [[http://puzzlingaddiction.com/ChessClient/ | ChessClient for Palm]] - free download; FICS/ICC Chess client for Palm OS | |
| | | 2008/12/06 | [[http://chess4net.ru/ | Chess4Net]] - free download; online chess server/client system; supports random chess (PP random); can be a plugin service with selected IM systems | |
| | | 2008/12/01 | [[http://home.pacific.net.au/~tommyinoz/tlcv.html | TLCS 1.72b]] - Tom's Live Chess Server by Thomas McBurney -- for viewing live games | |
| | | 2008/12/01 | [[http://naumchess.brinkster.net/ | Naum Chess Engine for Palm]] - free download | |
| | | 2008/12/01 | [[http://www.softedge.se/Softedge/Chessic.html | Chessic ]] - chess client for Mac; supports ICC. | |
| | | 2008/12/01 | [[http://cknelsen.sasktelwebsite.net/fixation/Fixation_title.html | Fixation ]] - chess client for Mac; supports ICC, FICS, USCL, and ChessNet(limited support for Chessnet). | |
| | | 2008/11/23 | [[http://chess.geniusprophecy.com/jchess.html | JChess ]] - (also known as 'Little Chess Partner') for human play against a chess engine on-line. | |
| | | 2008/11/17 | [[http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pro-linux.de%2Fspiele%2Fschach-bretter.html&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=de&tl=en | Chess programs under Linux]] - original article in German, translated via Google | |
| | | 2008/11/16 | [[http://repo.or.cz/w/omniperft.git | Omniperft 1.0]] - perft utility for 8x8 and 10x8 variants by Ilari Pihlajisto (C source) | |
| | | 2008/11/15 | [[http://www.rwbc-chess.de/download.htm | RWBC download page]] - RWBC (Guenther Simon) opening books updated | |
| | | 2008/11/15 | **[[http://www.mediafire.com/?mzytiyniyzj | Polyglot]]** - Polyglot was written by Fabien Letouzey. This is the bug-fixed Jaap Weidemann modification. [[http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=c16b14e6d9a0ea62d2db6fb9a8902bda | source code]] | |
| | | 2008/11/15 | [[http://usuarios.multimania.es/alexwbtm/English/Home.htm | WinMan 1.3e]] - by Alex Guerrero, new version; also Polyglot GUI | |
| | | 2008/11/14 | [[http://computerchessengines.mylivepage.com/file/?fileid=3992 | Polyglot opening book]] - by Denis P Mendoza | |
| | | 2008/11/12 | [[http://www.chesscube.com/ | ChessCube]] - play chess on the Internet | |
| | | 2008/11/12 | [[http://www.triplehappy.com/ | Reptor 2]] - free chess opening repertoire trainer by Bill Forster | |
| | | 2008/11/12 | [[http://www.orbitfiles.com/download/id3581539342.html | PGN to text tool]] - cross-table creator by Norm Pollock | |
| | | 2008/11/11 | **[[http://www.pradu.us/home/cc/PSWBTM/PSWBTM_debug.zip | PSWBTM]]** - a Winboard tournament manager by Pradu Kannan | |
| | | 2008/11/11 | [[http://alpha.uhasselt.be/Research/Algebra/Toga/book_format.html | Polyglot opening book specification]] - by Michel Vandenbergh | |
| | | 2008/11/11 | [[http://rodin.chess.googlepages.com/pgn-crosstabletool | PGN to html tool]] - cross-table creator by Fermin Serrano (Spanish language table) | |
| | | 2008/11/09 | [[http://www.chessgenius.com/ | ChessGenius]] - new version for iPhone and iPod touch (not free) | |
| | | 2008/11/02 | [[http://xadreco.wikispaces.com/relogeco-en | Relogeco chess clock]] - not so easy to install: requires python interpreter, PyQt, and Qt3 | |
| | | 2008/10/22 | [[http://home.arcor.de/dreamlike/chess/index.html | OliPow 2.2.e]] - This is an old version of Oliver Brausch's OliThink | |
| | | 2008/10/18 | [[http://pagesperso-orange.fr/ct_chess/ | Chess Tiger 2009 for Palm]] - by Christophe Théron | |
| | | 2008/10/18 | [[http://www.sjeng.org/deepsjeng3.html | Deep Sjeng 3]] - Engine upgrade announced (UCI protocol) | |
| | | 2008/09/10 | [[ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/crayblitz/ | Cray Blitz source code (Fortran) ]] - On Bob Hyatt's ftp site | |
