Which Engines would you like to see now with added UCI/WB?

[WinPooh]

1. Kaissa (ported from mainframe to PC in early 90's).

Source code is available, and was published somewhere in Computer Chess Museum. Unfortunately, it is in Borland C++ dialect, with a lot of low-level hacks (for DOS memory models, BGI graphics, etc.) And I am too lazy to deal with all that stuff and separate chess core from interface parts...

2. Psion Chess - the first chess program I played on PC (8086) which suddenly proved to be a very tough opponent for me!

3. Alan Kotok's chess program. I am not sure was it exactly the same program I played against in my childhood at school on PDP-11, but its ASCII board looked very like to this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Koto ... gure-1.png

[chrisw]

The undisputed 5 in my opinion:

Chess System Tal

Chess Genius

Virtual Chess

MChess Pro

Socrates

Wael,

You got very close to the final result and thank you everybody who voted for not anymore my pile of old junk CSTal better not tell Thorsten, he might get ideas on the development front .....

Best wishes,

Chris

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

The undisputed 5 in my opinion:

Chess System Tal

Chess Genius

Virtual Chess

MChess Pro

Socrates

Wael,

You got very close to the final result and thank you everybody who voted for not anymore my pile of old junk CSTal better not tell Thorsten, he might get ideas on the development front .....

Best wishes,

Chris

Thanks Chris for one of the most important milestones in the computer chess history and it's an old junk,it's a master piece of art

[chrisw]

The undisputed 5 in my opinion:

Chess System Tal

Chess Genius

Virtual Chess

MChess Pro

Socrates

Wael,

You got very close to the final result and thank you everybody who voted for not anymore my pile of old junk CSTal better not tell Thorsten, he might get ideas on the development front .....

Best wishes,

Chris

Thanks Chris for one of the most important milestones in the computer chess history and it's an old junk,it's a master piece of art

Thanks for saying so, but I remember when it was first released it was met on the CCC by waves of criticism, complaints of bugs and then by a poor review in the Chessbase magazine a bit later. Only very few were complimentary. Strange world

[mclane]

actually this is not really true. there was a big CSS magazin edition where Hiarcs and CSTAL were on the title and the headline was kind of: Intelligent chess programs or stuff like this.

there both programs were reviewed in a very positive way.

moment i look it up...

Edition 3/june-july 1999 of computer-schach and spiele:

"die intelligenten Programme: Chess System Tal 2.0 und Hiarcs7.32"

translation: the intelligent programs: CSTAL 2.0 and Hiarcs7.32


only the very FIRST appearences were critisized.

Later the programs and the efforts in making it intelligent were honored.

The article about CSTAL2.0 e.g. (page 15)
had the title: Anders denken ~ think different.

btw: CSTAL2.0 was sold at this time for 79 DM = 40 EURO.


i still think a version cstal3 with bitboards, 64bit, multi-cpu support as UCI would be interesting !

[El Gringo]

Hi,

Thorsten wrote :
I still think a version cstal3 with bitboards, 64bit, multi-cpu support as UCI would be interesting !

I say , the sooner , the better.
It will make my coillection complete...
I have tem from chess champion 2150, to 2175 and so on...

Best
Johan

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

actually this is not really true. there was a big CSS magazin edition where Hiarcs and CSTAL were on the title and the headline was kind of: Intelligent chess programs or stuff like this.

there both programs were reviewed in a very positive way.

moment i look it up...

Edition 3/june-july 1999 of computer-schach and spiele:

"die intelligenten Programme: Chess System Tal 2.0 und Hiarcs7.32"

translation: the intelligent programs: CSTAL 2.0 and Hiarcs7.32


only the very FIRST appearences were critisized.

Later the programs and the efforts in making it intelligent were honored.

The article about CSTAL2.0 e.g. (page 15)
had the title: Anders denken ~ think different.

btw: CSTAL2.0 was sold at this time for 79 DM = 40 EURO.


i still think a version cstal3 with bitboards, 64bit, multi-cpu support as UCI would be interesting !

Me think the same,but when is this is going to happen
Come on Thorsten,stop torturing the poor computer chess freaks