The WinBoard Gold Pack 4.4.0
+For the ultimate WinBoard experience!
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+The WinBoard Gold Pack 4.4.0+For the ultimate WinBoard experience!+ |
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+This package bundles the core set of WinBoard and support programs, +such as a tournament manager, UCI adapter, opening book, +sample WinBoard and UCI engines. +All pre-installed and ready to run, +in order to provide an example for how things can be done. +
+The package includes: +
+WinBoard 4.4.0 A GUI for Chess, to play a game or match between two WinBoard engines + (Written by Tim Mann, Alessandro Scotti, HG.Muller and many, many others) +Polyglot 1.5w22 An adapter to allow UCI engines to play under WinBoard (Fabien Letouzy) + Version adapted to run without cygwin1.dll by Fonzy Bleumers, + and to understand the WB protocol extensions by Michel van den Bergh +PSWBTM 2.0 A tournament manager, which invokes WinBoard repeatedly + in order toplay a complete tournament (round-robin or gauntlet) + It also manages a database of engines (Pradu Kannan) +default.bin A small opening book used by Polyglot and WinBoard (Guenther Simon) +Fairy-Max 4.8(J) Example of a WinBoard engine, which plays many variants (H.G.Muller) +Start positions The famous Nunn and Silver opening sets, as PGN or FEN file, respectively +bitmaps To give the Chess board a wood texture (David Dahlem) +hgtable.exe A program to make a plain-text cross table from a PGN file (H.G.Muller) +These html pages To provide a tutorial for explaining how to use what is here, + or how to obtain what is still missing (for legal reasons). ++Most software is supplied without source code, but it is all open source, +and links for downloading the source code are given below. +
+Some very useful programs or data files could not be included for reasons of incompatible licenses. +It might be a good idea to start with downloading those from their respective sources, +so everything works immediately when you try to reproduce the examples discussed in this tutorial. +This applies to: +
++Chess Mark A Chess Font, to dress up the appearance of the WinBoard graphics +PolyglotGUI A program by Alex Guerrero to help configuring UCI engines ++ +
+Running an Engine with PSWBTM +
+Running a Tournament with PSWBTM +
+Making Shortcuts to run WinBoard +
+Changing the Look of Board and Pieces +
++WinBoard Protocol Description +
+Overview of new WinBoard Options in Version 4.3.xx +
++A good Source of Chess Fonts +
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