Retro engine broadcasts on xyzzy.me.uk

[op12no2]

The idea behind

https://xyzzy.me.uk

is to broadcast tournaments between retro/old/novel/interesting/artisan engines for fun, including replicas of some engines based on the available literature.

I'm using Martin's Myracle chess GUI to run the games and Andres's Myracle Broadcast Server to publish them. Myracle is running on Windows and the broadcast server is running in WSL. It literally took minutes to set up thanks to Andres's README.md, which Fable 5.1 read and said 'no problem, just need to tweak a few things because of WSL'.

Currently it's just running a Lozza match as a test run.

I'll update this thread when I have something running for real.

Thanks Martin and Andres; absolutely incredible work. I love the setup.

[op12no2]

Still practicing but currently playing:-

Sargon I (1978) - fixed depth of 6
Sargon I + ID (1978) - but no TT
Psion 2.13

watch here: https://xyzzy.me.uk

https://github.com/billforsternz/retro-sargon
https://github.com/vdbergh/psion-chess

No adjudication.

If anybody has any retro/interesting Windows executables they'd like to contribute, please feel free to email me: op12no2@gmail.com.

Planning on creating engines for the original Shannon algorithms(s).

[op12no2]

Added 2 engines with Shannon Type-A and Type-B searches implementing his 1950 paper.

Watch here: https://xyzzy.me.uk/

Engine repo: https://github.com/op12no2/shannon