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I've found a link for Tristram 4.1.6

I've been looking for this engine for ages.
Most links I've used before direct you to Dann Corbits server
but I couldn't find it there.

http://www.openchess.it/oc_download/oc_ ... ad_pgm.asp

Jim.

Hello Jim,

This page is very interesting and I thought to find a new winboard chess.

I have found this page in last time because I was looking for the adress of the authors of Skaki.

I have tried Losing Chess Wizard from Stanislas Goldowski and unfortunately without sucess with winboard, arena and Wb2uci.

Unfortunately Stanislas is dead in 1999.

Best wishes

Claude

Hi Claude,

I was looking for Skaki authors email too. I made some adjustments to Skaki source code (bugfix), but I'm having trouble compiling the source code.

Regards,
Jim

Jim Ablett wrote:I've found a link for Tristram 4.1.6

I've been looking for this engine for ages.
Most links I've used before direct you to Dann Corbits server
but I couldn't find it there.

http://www.openchess.it/oc_download/oc_ ... ad_pgm.asp

Jim.

Who is the real author of Tristram? In the readme file included in this download, there is this ...

Tristram README file
Last updated: Jan. 31, 1998
James F. Long

And on Leo's detail page for Tristram, there is this ...

Engine: Tristram
Author: James Swafford, USA.

Thanks
Dave

Hello David,

You are right. The poor James F. Long is forgotten. I can also see the name in mode console in the Tristram 4.1.6 and Tristam 3.3.6.

Perhaps Leo can give us more informations.

G?nther, from WBEC is also giving James Swafford and me too because I have taken the author's name on the very good site of Leo.

At another great site we can also see that the name of James Swafford is also written by Uwe Jacoby and Uwe has published his photo.

The site of Uwe is very good. A visit is interesting : http://www.computerschachecke.de/

Perhaps is James F. Long a pseudo for James Swafford.

Finally the information is coming perhaps from the Winboard Engine Overview from Thomas Mayer who was the bible of winboard engine before Leo.

The mistery is till on

Best wishes

Claude

Jim Ablett wrote:I've found a link for Tristram 4.1.6

I've been looking for this engine for ages.
Most links I've used before direct you to Dann Corbits server
but I couldn't find it there.

http://www.openchess.it/oc_download/oc_ ... ad_pgm.asp

Jim.

Anyone know if there is an opening book available for Tristram?

Regards
Dave

Just a note for Jim about Tristram 4.16 and Skaki 1.19:

Those are forgotten also because of an important reason,
both always ponder!
(except Tristram for Olivier on his special machine AFAIK;)

That's why I had used Tristram 3.36, which was really
tough to find anymore...

Guenther

Hello David,

Anyone know if there is an opening book available for Tristram?

Regards
Dave

The one one thing I did find on Dann' server was the Tristram's opening book.

You'll find it here >

ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/Contrib/

Jim.

Hi Guenther,

Just a note for Jim about Tristram 4.16 and Skaki 1.19:

Those are forgotten also because of an important reason,
both always ponder!
(except Tristram for Olivier on his special machine AFAIK;)

That's why I had used Tristram 3.36, which was really
tough to find anymore...

Guenther

Thanks for the info, if I can get past successfully compiling Skaki, I'll
make the ponder optional on Skaki when I build it along with a fix for the
40th move timeout bug Claude told me about.

Jim.