ZZZZZZ 3.4 by G. Wiesenekker
http://home.planet.nl/~gijsbert.wiesenekker/zzzzzz.html
ZZZZZZ 3.4wb JA with winboard support.
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How to use:
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Install as a standard winboard engine. No command line options needed.
ZZZZZZ 3.4wb doesn't use it's own opening book, but 'force & go'
commands are implemented so you can use 'Bookthinker' or your chess
gui's own opening books.
The file 'brd.txt' (which contains the starting position) needs to be
in the same folder as the exe for the engine to work. When ZZZZZZ is
run it will create additional files 'game.txt', 'dbase.bin' &
'dbase.key' in it's current folder.
Changes:
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1. Added winboard protocol 2 support.
2. Removed all redundant command line features.
3. Added resign function.
4. New logo.
This is another chess engine I've been meaning to convert to winboard
for a very long time, but the complexity of the source code always put
me off the idea. My programming skills have improved enough over the
past few years to attempt it again - with success this time.
ZZZZZZ (named after a fatal error routine in FORTRAN77) was entered into
the Dutch Computer Chess Championships in 1993, where it achieved a very
respectable 5 out of 10 points. Engine strength I would estimate to be
around TSCP level. There are a couple of later versions of ZZZZZZ, v3.6 for
the Mac chess gui ExaChess http://www.exachess.com/downloads.html
(this is essentially the same as 3.4 with a few small bugfixes) and v5.0
written in Delphi, which is still available on the web which has it's own
very nice gui, but unfortunately, is not winboard or UCI compatible either.
I'll update the program from time to time if bugs appear.
Available from my homepage.
Have fun!
Jim Ablett.
