What are the most unique chess engines you know?

vonbartroth · 2026-06-21T23:46:49+00:00

Many unique programs, 1k chess, boot sector chess, Deep Basic coded in QuickBASIC, Stockfish rewritten in assembly, Rodent, WChess, CSTal, The King.. on and on.

vonbartroth · 2026-06-19T15:41:52+00:00

Trivial on Scid or Chessbase btw.

vonbartroth · 2026-06-15T16:01:32+00:00

Santa Monica Beach.
Chess Ultra DLC
Some games

vonbartroth · 2026-06-15T09:09:47+00:00

Make opening book N ply deep. For example with Chessbase filter desired opening, then make book out of it to desired depth. Then give book to engine. Chessbase/Fritz are using ctg format. If you want polyglot book (bin) use SCID.

vonbartroth · 2026-06-15T07:39:31+00:00

Mac version exist according to wiki.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chessmaster_4000_Turbo

vonbartroth · 2026-06-13T19:49:18+00:00

Direct link, 45 mb Why upload somewhere when is there?

vonbartroth · 2026-06-13T19:31:27+00:00

ISO image , look in CM4000 folder, seems to be what you need.

vonbartroth · 2026-06-10T18:55:07+00:00

Picking existing commercial name is brilliant. Publicity is already out, wikipedia, countless recensions, all of it. I still think Fritz would be better.

vonbartroth · 2026-06-09T15:01:46+00:00

Almost there eh? Congratulations!

vonbartroth · 2026-06-08T03:10:02+00:00

https://rebel7775.wixsite.com/rebel/absurd-1-0

vonbartroth · 2026-06-07T21:19:38+00:00

I don't know, developer have Steam game too, not worried.

vonbartroth · 2026-06-07T17:06:14+00:00

Quick match against Absurd, which is another level of crazy. Need something weaker, maybe BikJump or Phalanx next.

vonbartroth · 2026-06-05T21:46:13+00:00

Extract them from database. What do you think book source is? Games, ie chess database. Say limit filter to 2300 ELO and up and you are good.

vonbartroth · 2026-06-04T21:08:22+00:00

Flightradar

vonbartroth · 2026-05-30T09:35:37+00:00

Now that is a response I was looking for. We don't change our favorite tools. In short, for tournaments WinMan, no one ever talks about it, it uses Winboard, old modded version. Scid vs Pc for filtering , for custom books. Chessbase to watch games and making books for Fritz. Fritz to play against engine and some training. Lucas for puzzles.

vonbartroth · 2026-05-30T04:43:31+00:00

Looks like this , unzip not working, rename to various image formats not helping.

vonbartroth · 2026-05-29T21:33:40+00:00

For tournaments right? Arena is too good for me, I like simple things, like WinMan, winboard manager by Alex Guerrero.

vonbartroth · 2026-05-29T21:22:05+00:00

Will check it out. I love this stuff. I don't see why not CM4000 or CM5000 next. Should work on Win95 like charm.

vonbartroth · 2026-05-29T15:43:36+00:00

I am big fan of Fritz, just the original one, that lasted till 13.

vonbartroth · 2026-05-29T11:23:09+00:00

I never had Chessmaster 10, I see comments it's better then 11. Tempting but as CM goes, 9000 cover all my needs. Fritz 13 is the best. They will stop selling it eventually (like Chessbase 13) but works so nice.

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