A new chess GUI for UCI engines

[Chen Huang]

Hi all,

I used to be the developer of Mobile Chess and Flash Chess, and now start to release Chess Wizard: a free and powerful chess software to play, study, edit and publish games. The home page is:

http://www.chess-wizard.com/

It is derived from the famous Chinese chess (xiangqi) software XiangQi Wizard. Now Chess Wizard uses Stockfish as its default engine, and work well with famous Houdini .

I think the highlights of Chess Wizard are :
1. Hundreds of chess puzzles inside Chess Wizard ;
2. Supported by a huge online database, including thousands of games, millions of positions and billions of endgames (exaggerated) .

Here is the screenshot:



My next step is:
1. A visualized book browser or editor for PolyGlot (Fruit/Stockfish) books ;
2. Variants (Chess960 is available, which is next? Losing Chess?) ;
3. Improvement of Mobile Chess and Flash Chess .

As the developer of Chess Wizard, I want to know whether it meets your demand. And any other suggestions are welcome.

Thank you for downloading and enjoying it

http://www.chess-wizard.com/

[mar]

Thanks Chen.

Just testing your ChessWizard with cheng

Martin

[hgm]

Hi, Morning Yellow! Good to see you here!

We are fishing in each other's pond.



I guess you probably have no plans to support WinBoard protocol in Chess-Wizard (or, more importantly, in Xiangqi-Wizzard)?

I am still using your Chinese translation of WinBoard, adapted to the latest version, where translations can be dynamically chosen from the menu.

[gerold]

Thanks Chen.

Best,

Gerold.

[Mithu]

Thank you Chen.

At first I was not able to access the help topics from the program menu, since the webpage was not available. But it did get rectified later.
Can we download the help topics as a PDF so we need not go online always?

A few suggestions that are actually wishes BTW.

The board window can be made re-sizable and colour-configurable. Move by drag and drop would be a neat feature.

I must say a very neat work overall. And the Music was an added bonus too!

Thanks once again! Its not often that we get to see GUIs ( and good ones at that). Amidst 10000 Engines we have 0.5% of GUIs. That makes it all the more special.
Thanks once again!

[Chen Huang]

We are fishing in each other's pond.
I guess you probably have no plans to support WinBoard protocol in Chess-Wizard (or, more importantly, in Xiangqi-Wizzard)?

I am still using your Chinese translation of WinBoard, adapted to the latest version, where translations can be dynamically chosen from the menu.

Of course no plan to support other protocols because I think protocol adapters can do that.

btw, I'm still working on Chinese chess and here is my new non-engine AI program:
http://www.chess-wizard.com/download/cchess.zip


Perhaps I will use your pieces set from WinBoard later because Chinese characters are too hard to read.

[Chen Huang]

At first I was not able to access the help topics from the program menu, since the webpage was not available. But it did get rectified later.

The board window can be made re-sizable and colour-configurable. Move by drag and drop would be a neat feature.

The Chess Wizard web server is located in Shanghai, which may not be smoothly accessed from Europe or America. Recently I am looking for servers (VPS or vhosts) outside China.

Resizable, configurable board and drag-drop move are important features to board game GUI. Perhaps I should take much time on Chess Wizard and XiangQi Wizard.