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Subject: Re: Newbie question. What is Winboard ?

Author: Frank Quisinsky

Date: 14:28:15 01/02/01

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On January 02, 2001 at 17:10:19, Nicolas GUIBERT wrote:

>You seem to always refer to Winboard ? May I ask what it is ?
>
>Thanks in advance.

Hi,

WinBoard is a chess GUI by Tim Mann !
http://www.research.compaq.com/SRC/personal/mann/chess.html

Interview with WinBoard programmer Tim Mann under:
http://amateurschach.in-trier.de/schach/interview/interview_tim.htm

If a chess program compatible to WinBoard is this fantastic !

Commercial firms made in the last years his GUIs (graphical user interface)
compatible to "WinBoard Engines / Programs" !

"WinBoard Engines" running under:

01. WinBoard (WinBoard is a GUI) !

02. Chess-Base GUIs
    A. Chess-Base 7.0
    B. Chess-Base 8.0
    C. Fritz 5-32
    D. Fritz 6
    E. Deep Fritz
    F. Junior 5
    G. Junior 6
    H. Deep Junior
    I. Hiarcs 7-32
    J. Nimzo 7-32
    K. Nimzo 8.0
    L. Youg Talents

03. Chessmaster 8000 (now compatible) !

04. Chess Academy 5.0
    Chess Academy 6.0

05. Chess Assistant 5.0 / 5.1

06. Millennium Chess System / Chess Genius 6.0 / 6.5
    Shredder 5.0, the new Millennium Chess System

07. Chessvision

08. Chess Partner 4.0 / 5.0 / Chess Tiger 12.0 / Chess Tiger 13.0

09. Bookup 2000

10. different shareware programs !

OK, not all "WinBoard Engines" can running under all this GUIs but I think ~ 80%
from 75 free WinBoard Engines.

You can find a lot of informations about WinBoard and programs on my webpage.

The strongest WinBoard Engines are:

01. Gandalf 4.32g
02. Crafty 17.14
03. Nimzo 2000b

Gandalf 4.32g and Nimzo 2000b are commercial programs.

Engine Overview I
http://amateurschach.in-trier.de/schach/uebersicht.htm

Engine Overview II
http://amateurschach.in-trier.de/schach/uebersicht2.htm

WinBoard engines tournaments
http://amateurschach.in-trier.de/schach/uebersicht2.htm

CCE tourney with the best WinBoard Engine
http://amateurschach.in-trier.de/schach/cbase/cce_main.htm

Downloads
http://amateurschach.in-trier.de/schach/download.htm

Top Downloader page
http://amateurschach.in-trier.de/schach/download/download_top.htm

News Ticker about computer chess and WinBoard
http://amateurschach.in-trier.de/news.htm

WinBoard engines under commercial GUIs / Phase X
http://amateurschach.in-trier.de/gambit/gambit.htm

OK, this is only a little bit but I think you can find here enough
about WinBoard !

Best
Frank



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