how many chess engines are they?

[mainsworthy2]

http://www.rwbc-chess.de/wb_chron.htm

the above link shows 470, some other links give the same engines.

but how many chess engines are they? this has puzzled me for a while. does anyone have a count?

[Bill Rogers]

I can not give you an answer but the list you showed only shows fairly new chess program written since the year 2000 and which are compatible with Winboard.
For a list of engines written for PC's you would have to go back to the mid 1970's and start counting starting with MicroChess by Peter Jennings. There were hundreds more written in many different languages.
Bill

[mainsworthy2]

Thanks Will. your right I remeber 1k ZX81 chess 1ply

So the number is hard to say.

[Dann Corbit]

http://www.rwbc-chess.de/wb_chron.htm

the above link shows 470, some other links give the same engines.

but how many chess engines are they? this has puzzled me for a while. does anyone have a count?

I have about 5000. (But that counts different versions of the same engine)
I guess that there are lot more than that.

[Matthias Gemuh]

http://www.rwbc-chess.de/wb_chron.htm

the above link shows 470, some other links give the same engines.

but how many chess engines are they? this has puzzled me for a while. does anyone have a count?

I have about 5000. (But that counts different versions of the same engine)
I guess that there are lot more than that.

Dann,
how can I get at some free ones of your 5000 ?
I need 800 more to complete my stupid goal of 2000 working engines running in one giant tournament under ChessGUI.
Are the things all accessible on your server ?
regards,
Matthias.

[Dann Corbit]

http://www.rwbc-chess.de/wb_chron.htm

the above link shows 470, some other links give the same engines.

but how many chess engines are they? this has puzzled me for a while. does anyone have a count?

I have about 5000. (But that counts different versions of the same engine)
I guess that there are lot more than that.

Dann,
how can I get at some free ones of your 5000 ?
I need 800 more to complete my stupid goal of 2000 working engines running in one giant tournament under ChessGUI.
Are the things all accessible on your server ?
regards,
Matthias.

I have something of a problem there, beause some are private and some are unreleased versions and things of that nature. Some are also commercial engines. So I cannot simply publish my engines folders.

If you can tell me what engines you are missing, I can probably help you in that way. I guess, though, that we will have to look at the engines one at a time, because I will handle this kind of thing cautiously to make sure I am not doing something wrong.

[Matthias Gemuh]

Dann,
how can I get at some free ones of your 5000 ?
I need 800 more to complete my stupid goal of 2000 working engines running in one giant tournament under ChessGUI.
Are the things all accessible on your server ?
regards,
Matthias.

I have something of a problem there, beause some are private and some are unreleased versions and things of that nature. Some are also commercial engines. So I cannot simply publish my engines folders.

If you can tell me what engines you are missing, I can probably help you in that way. I guess, though, that we will have to look at the engines one at a time, because I will handle this kind of thing cautiously to make sure I am not doing something wrong.

OK, I will simply look through what is accessible on your server.
I don't have to accomplish my goal in one giant leap .

Matthias.

[mainsworthy2]

Hi Dann

How are you 5000 engines few. ive fiddled a biit with mainsworthy, but didnt want to give up a working engine so sonOfMainsworthy02 is done

Im trying to get hold of ACE, but all my downloads are bad the engine just fires up and dies due to a windows error .

do you have a good version of ACE markjamestop@yahoo.co.uk

I used to use ACE a lot and miss it

[Matthias Gemuh]

Hi Dann

How are you 5000 engines few. ive fiddled a biit with mainsworthy, but didnt want to give up a working engine so sonOfMainsworthy02 is done

Im trying to get hold of ACE, but all my downloads are bad the engine just fires up and dies due to a windows error .

do you have a good version of ACE markjamestop@yahoo.co.uk

I used to use ACE a lot and miss it

Maybe your problem is that you are running an UCI engine as WB.
Winboard cannot use UCI engines without polyglot.
Arena will run Ace as UCI.

Matthias.

[mainsworthy2]

your right i used to run in arena

but I get this

The aplication failed to initialize properly (0x000135). Click on OK to terminate the application


maybe I need Directx or Dot.net or Flash or Some other plug in because its a new install might be it.

have you tried ACE from a recent download? all my other engines work, I also tried in chessGUI