Retro Chess - updates

[Wilhelm]

Database cleanup, Crafties cleanup, name corrections, more engines and more 16bit games. Now 585 engines and 503.000 games.
I reduced the Crafties to not more than one engine per serie and controlled the configs. There are a lot of downloads with wrong config files inside and also many different compiles. Many JA x64 compiles won't work on my Ryzen 5900 so I searched for the fastest working versions.
Sofar not working also SOS 1, 2 and 3, Betsy 5.26.
Can't find Cerebro 1.30 anywhere.

William

PS: if you miss an old beloved engine in my list than reply here.

[Werner]

Sorry Wilhelm,
can´t help with Cerebro 1.30 and my old beloved engine is already listed: MChess Pro 8.0

try arsenatore at gmail.com

[Wilhelm]

Hi Werner,
thanks, I'll try it.

[jkominek]

It is evident that you really love ChessMaster. I once knew a professor who looked a lot like the wizard-archetype old man with the white beard and long grey hair they they used on their box covers. I always thought the wizard character was an odd choice as actual chess masters are usually clean shaven. But hey, I guess the branding marketed well.

This note from your web page is interesting.

Update 21.March.2023: imported a big part of the Comp2005 database. It includes only high quality games (minimun 30min. games) and fit perfect to my list. Speedfactor from old HW to newest is ~7. Included a bunch of real Hydra games! All Credits to the contributers and collectors of this database! At least a bunch of new games from my side.

Do you have any information on the Hydra games? Are they from competitions, and/or matches privately run by the Hydra team? After the Michael Adams match it seemed that funding for the project dried up prematurely, which I felt was a shame.

[Wilhelm]

It is evident that you really love ChessMaster. I once knew a professor who looked a lot like the wizard-archetype old man with the white beard and long grey hair they they used on their box covers. I always thought the wizard character was an odd choice as actual chess masters are usually clean shaven. But hey, I guess the branding marketed well.

This note from your web page is interesting.

Update 21.March.2023: imported a big part of the Comp2005 database. It includes only high quality games (minimun 30min. games) and fit perfect to my list. Speedfactor from old HW to newest is ~7. Included a bunch of real Hydra games! All Credits to the contributers and collectors of this database! At least a bunch of new games from my side.

Do you have any information on the Hydra games? Are they from competitions, and/or matches privately run by the Hydra team? After the Michael Adams match it seemed that funding for the project dried up prematurely, which I felt was a shame.

Yo can find some games in the comp2005 database but they are from severel years (2002-2005). Hydra was updated very often and at the end it reaches ~3050 elo. The project was comercially a fail because it never could be selled to customers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_(chess)

https://en.chessbase.com/post/all-about ... he-project