autochess

[Prima]

Links

WinBoard 4.4.4 Installer file
http://www.mediafire.com/?fmxof9b4mks3ldh

WinBoard 4.4.4 Executable-only file
http://www.mediafire.com/?d8pix8pbtms6wpd

Experimental WinBoard
http://www.mediafire.com/?epa7c2actj325xn

Please note Winboard 4.4.4 is the new updated final and polished version released on August 20th, 2010. The experimental Winboard version was released before the 4.4.4.

[XsupremeX]

Thx for letting us know !

[Darklord42]

The experimental version has code from the 4.5 branch. 4.4.x is in a feature freeze and wont have the seekgraph, dual bughouse board and other features that ICS users use.

[Prima]

Thx for letting us know !

Any time XsupremeX.

[Prima]

The experimental version has code from the 4.5 branch.

I was going by the date, using the 'properties' feature to check the date the beta Winboard was released - which showed the date was few days before the release of 4.4.4. Thanks for this information.

[eliasgino2007]

Welcome all,

Download - Portable Winboard 4.5beta + Houdini 1.5:

Description:

Updated portable setup of Winboard 4.5 beta (master build 01.12.2010.) with two strongest free chess engines:
Houdini 1.5 ( stronger than Rybka4!, see IPON rating list at: www.inwoba.de )
and Stockfish 1.9.1 (also very strong), for game analysis, and two much weaker chess engines (Delfi 4.5 and Phalanx) with variable strenght for training.

With Winboard you can play against chess engines, analyze/view games, play online chess (on internet chess servers like freechess.org),
or you can match two engines to play each other.
In Winboard 4.5 beta there are lot of new features, like ICS seek graph (in Internet Chess Server mode just click on an empty square and you will see seek graph), exploring variations, walking through engine main variation, etc.

Also included in this setup:

- Performance.bin opening book for UCI engines
- Small 3 piece Nalimov endgame tablebase
- Nice selection of pgn games
- Wooden, Marble and Green Marble board textures
- Chess Merida Font for representing chess pieces

NOTE: I am not author of software/data included in this zip file, I merely collected free stuff
and put it together in a way I like to use it.
I hope I have not violated any license or something like that.
For bugs and questions see references in readme1st.txt

If you like this download please rate it!

Link: Portable Winboard 4.5beta + Houdini 1.5

Enjoy!!!


By eliasgino2007!

[il_konte]

WinBoard 4.5 Beta downloads

I have prepared a beta installer package for WinBoard 4.5, but I have a very weird problem: When I run some engines through the Windows Start menu, the logo of the human usere sometimes shows up as a highly magnified spin button (which is not use by WB anywhere, btw). I am starting to suspect this is a Windows bug. Could anyone test if this is peculiar to my system?

The bug manifests itself when I run, Start -> WinBoard-4.5.0 -> Xiangqi Engines -> HaQiKi D, and then play a move (so that it becomes human vs engine). The white logo should then become the one from logos\hgm.bmp (or, if no logo in the name of the user exist, logos\dummy.bmp), but in stead it becomes a giant button. Same for Xiangqi Engines -> MaxQi. But with Xiangqi Engines -> Elephant Eye (and any of the engines in the Chess Engines submenu, including MaxQi!) my logo shows up normally. Both Shogi Engines entries again produce the button.

The 4.5.0 beta installer can be downloaded from

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http://hgm.nubati.net/WinBoard-4.5.0.exe

For this test it might be best to rename hgm.bmp to your own username.

The weird thing is that when I start the same engine through the startup dialog, using the same file with settings (e.g. @mini.ini for mini-Shogi) as the menu shortcut uses as "additional options", everything works normally.

For more info here

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http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=51367

[Darklord42]

Speaking of 4.5 beta. Some of you might find this interesting as to what 4.5 offers.
http://hgm.nubati.net/news.4.5.0.html

Lately, HGM has been working on a branch that supports non-chess games
(I'd like to see Arena try that! )
http://hgm.nubati.net/alien.html

[EDIT] oops posted wrong link

[matematiko]

Speaking of 4.5 beta. Some of you might find this interesting as to what 4.5 offers.
http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=51367

Lately, HGM has been working on a branch that supports non-chess games
(I'd like to see Arena try that! )
http://hgm.nubati.net/alien.html

I hope checkers is one of them

Laterz

[Darklord42]

It is


here he is demonstrating "double jump"

[matematiko]

Thanks for reply..I was not expecting Fairy Max to play checkers..I thought he was going to use the strongest known checkers engines (Cahe, KingsRow, Etc)...Oh well.....we will see!!!


Regards,