Older Engines

[jshriver]

Is there a good site that collects older engines?

Reason I ask is that there seems to be a couple hundred engines out there. But if you do google searches many sites no longer exist and no way to download them.

-Josh

[velmarin]

This is a torrent file, I so down recently, is still active.

700 megs compressed.
almost 3 gigas uncompressed.


http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3999221/ ... ES_TORRENT

description:
1145 CHESS ENGINES TORRENT
==========================

IF YOU LIKE PLAYING CHESS AGAINST A COMPUTER OR ARE FASCINATED HOW COMPUTERS PLAY
AGAINST EACH OTHER, THEN THIS TORRENT IS FOR YOU!
I HAVE COLLECTED 1145 ENGINES FROM INTERNET, SOME OF THEM ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND NOW!
ALL CHESS ENGINES COME WITH THEIR LOGO AND OPENINGBOOK.
YOU CAN USE ARENA, SHREDDER, FRITZ OR WHATEVER CHESS PROGRAM TO LOAD THESE ENGINES.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN CHESS PROGRAMMING, HERE YOU WILL FIND A LOT OF SOURCE CODE.
THERE ARE PROGRAMS IN C, C++, DELPHI, VISUAL BASIC, ADA, JAVA AND ALSO FOR LINUX.
I HAVE INCLUDED A SELFMADE CHESS ENGINE DATABASE IN EXCEL FORMAT (EXCEL 2003 & 2007).

HAVE A LOT OF FUN!
MADMAN9999

Greetings, Chema.

[jshriver]

Doesn't seem to load, but TY.

Have a mirror of the actual .torrent file

[velmarin]

mirror:

http://www.mediafire.com/?c2831i8scp522a7
I put my active torrent, something worked

[Ron Murawski]

The Computer-Chess Wiki chess engine list has many older links (using Wayback machine)
http://www.computer-chess.org/doku.php? ... ngine_list

The list is in reverse chronological order, so start at the bottom and work your way up.

[jshriver]

Thanks for that link, was able to find a lot of older engines via that wiki.

After re-reading the previous description I've decided not to grab.
Though it is nice to know there is a huge collection for engines that have gone away over the years.