old chess programs WB/UCI/Windows/MS-DOS etc.

[Norbert Raimund Leisner]

Hello,

I received a request concerning the following chess engines:

Arminius 2011-11-06 - Arminius 2012-08-14 - Arminius 2013-08-10 (-) ??

Awesome 1.0 Win - Awesome 1.53 (-) > Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual mailbox table (in reply to RCPT TO command)

Beaches 1.2 - Beaches 1.60 (-) ???

Belzebub 0.4 - Belzebub 0.64 (-) ???

BigLion 2.23f

BlackBishop 0.9.2d (-) ???

Butcher 1.53 (-) ???

ChessBin 0.0.6.1

ChessRikus 1.3 - ChessRikus 1.4.58 - ChessRikus 1.41 (-) ???

Cilian 4.09 (-) ???

Comet A32 - Comet A75 (-) > no longer software available, last release is from 2004

Crux 04.5 (-) ???

Delfi 2.0 - Delfi 3.4 (-) > They are too old, I have not them anymore near me, maybe they are in old backup but I have not the time to search them (Fabio)

Deuterium 09.01.26.492 (-) ???

Dolphin 1.4 (-) ???

DrChess 1.40.18 - DrChess 2.0b4 (-)

DrunkenMaster 0.8 (-) ???

EnginMax 1.7 - EnginMax 2.87 (-) ???

Enigma 1.1.1 (-) > Recipient address rejected: User unknown (in reply to RCPT TO command)

Enano 0.00.27

ET Chess 071204 (-) ???

EXchess 2.03 (-) ???

FireFly 2.5.4 (-) > We're sorry, but it seems that this DynDNS hostname has been deactivated. - DNS-address of the server fireflychess.dyndns.org was not found

Frenzee 138 (-) ???

GiuChess 1.0b1 (-) ???

Glass 0.1.0d (-) ???

GNUChess 5.03b

Hermann 0.3.2 (-) ???

HoiChess 0.2.1 (-) ???

InmiChess 2.02 (-) > Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=magnet.at type=AAAA: Host found but no data record of requested type

Lightning 1.54 (-) ???

Marvin 1.2.1 (-) - Unfortunately I have lost the 1.2.1 version. The only version I could find when I looked through my backups was the 1.3.0 version. (Martin)

Matrix 99

Monik 2.0 (-) ???

MSCP 1.5g (-) ???

Mustang 2.31 (-) > Recipient address rejected: Sender Policy Framework - SPF is an extension to Internet e-mail. It prevents unauthorized people from forging your e-mail address (see the introduction). But for it to work, your own or your e-mail service provider's setup may need to be adjusted. Otherwise, the system may mistake you for an unauthorized sender.

OldBlindDog 1.07

Parrot 031231 (-) > Sorry, the oldest source I keep is from 2006. That version is from 2003. (Johanes)

Philou 2.0.0 - Philou 3.0.0 - Philou 3.1.4.1 ???

Porucznik 8 (-) > delivery temporarily suspended: lost connection with mta6.am0.yahoodns.net[xxxxxxxxxx] while sending RCPT TO Will-Retry-Until: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:44:14 +0100 (CET) - status: delayed

Quark 0.81 (-) ???

Queen 2.22a - Queen 2.42a (-) ???

RDChess 3.11 (-) ???

Rodin 1.17 (-) ???

Scidlet 2.1 - Scidlet 3.1 - Scidlet 3.6.20 (-) ??? > Unfortunately, no (Benoît) - I have been involved in the development of Scid much later and unfortunately I do not have that Scidlet versions. (Fulvio)

SdBC 0.4.13.0 (-) ???

Smash 0.7d (-) > Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual alias table (in reply to RCPT TO command)

SnailChess 1.01 - SnailChess 3.01 (-) ???

StAndersen 0.33 - StAndersen 1.27 (-) ???

TheCrazyBishop 0035 - TheCrazyBishop 0040 > I probably don't have these version any more. (Rémi)

Thor'sHammer 1.8 (-) > smtp;550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable

Tornado 2.1.36b - Tornado 3.42a (-) ???

T-Rex 0.9.0.6 (-) > Boîte du destinataire archivée. Archived recipient. LPN007_420 (in reply to RCPT TO command) - probably a persistent error

TSCP 1.42 - TSCP 1.71 > Macintosh editions, no Windows binaries

Tytan 3.04 (-) > Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual mailbox table

ZChess 0.40 (-) > I do not own a copy of ZChess 0.4 -very old program (Franck)

I have contacted the authors directly under their (former) email-addresses via CCC and "le fou numérique" forum. I possess (or received) the programs that are written in bold-type. If you own one of the mentioned above "abandonware" please send me an email-attachment to norbert.raimund.leisner@arcor.de
maximum of data volume = 35 MB; .exe, .zip and .rar files are o.k.

Many thanks in advance!

Norbert

[Guenther]

I have some of them, burt sorting them out can take a while.

BTW Enano and OldBlindDog are plain clones and I have never heard of Matrix 99, but the phony name suggests it could be a clone too.
Otherwise I should know it...

Guenther

[Norbert Raimund Leisner]

Arena website Matrix = WB enabled Cray Blitz (predecessor of Crafty)

By the way: I wrote an email to Andrew Fan because
his websites are not available due to the following error indications:

Firefly > We're sorry, but it seems that this DynDNS hostname has been deactivated. - DNS-address of the server fireflychess.dyndns.org was not found

http://fireflychess.dyndns.org/Downloads/FF270_x64.7z
http://fireflychess.dyndns.org/Downloads/FF270_SSE2.7z
http://fireflychess.dyndns.org/Download ... Book2_5.7z
http://fireflychess.dyndns.org/Download ... yStart.txt


KKFChess > connection failed, no connection establishment to the server freespace.virgin.net

Norbert

[Guenther]

Arena website Matrix = WB enabled Cray Blitz (predecessor of Crafty)

The only Matrix I found in a little research is just another stockfish clone...

[Guenther]

According to this thread it seems it was just a strangely named build of a Crafty version, compiled by Nolan Denson.
In 1999 Crafty existed already since long, when CrayBlitz was history.

http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewt ... ix#p154515

[Guenther]

According to this thread it seems it was just a strangely named build of a Crafty version, compiled by Nolan Denson.
In 1999 Crafty existed already since long, when CrayBlitz was history.

http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewt ... ix#p154515

It is just a slightly modified Crafty version of 2002 done by an over enthusiastic non-programmer, who told this would be the best Crafty version ever.
He did only a few games against weaker and/or handicapped opponents and was really convinced of what he was saying ;-)
Also he forgot about the license in the beginning and of course it did not play better. (fake news was still not commonly known then)
So this was the reason it was never mentioned and not seriously tested and it has nothing to do with CrayBlitz whatsoever.

http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?te ... x&search=1