Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 06:35:57 05/14/05
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On May 14, 2005 at 03:03:47, Komputer Korner wrote: >Does anyone know where i can get the best Xboard engine for Chess Position >trainer. It's help file doesn't mention anything about engines but the program >clearly allows X board engines. these have been around a long time if i >remember. But my memory is failing me and i have lost all of my old files with >the computer chess info. Also I know that winboard is still alive and well. i >used to enjoy the engine matches within Winboard. I seem to recall that the >original interface was Xboard. Shouldn't Crafty work with Chess Position >trainer? Hi Komputer Korner. You are something of a legend! Good to see that you have some time for computer chess again. Unfortunately I know very little about Winboard and XBoard. I thought that XBoard only works with UNIX. Is Chess Position Trainer a Unix/Linux program? If it is Windows it probably supports Winboard? For documentation about Winboard and XBoard, Tim Mann would be the man to ask, and his homepage has all the protocol information etc: http://www.tim-mann.org/ For Winboard engines the site from Leo Dijksman probably has them all: http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/ My favourite Winboard engine would be Pro Deo 1.1 from Ed Schröder, and it is on his site http://members.home.nl/matador/index.htm But there are many many strong engines these days! Spike, SlowChess, List, Crafty, Ruffian 1.01 and 1.05, Aristarch 4.50, Fruit and modified Fruit/Toga are just a few of the names of non-commercial engines that I know. Best regards, Eelco
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