Hello !
At the end of march, I had asked for some old free winboard engines and have received great help. Thanks to that I am now able to run my dinosaur league.
I had been warned it would be time consuming and it is indeed. So I've decided to shorten a bit the time control from 4+2 to 2+2 and to add resign options and 4 pieces tablebases. About 5000 games have already been played in this new format and I should keep you informed in a few weeks, when I get significant results. Anyway, nobody is in a hurry to discover ratings of the year 2000, I guess.
Unfortunately, I've just seen that I am still missing a 2001 engine. I had wrongly selected Sjeng 12.7 when it was released on january the 2nd 2002 (yes I am sometimes a perfectionnist).
So if anyone has Sjeng 12 (Leiden), released on the 5th of november 2001 according to the winboard news ticker, I would be very grateful if he could send it to me to complete my list.
I am also searching for four 1999 engines as it would allow me to go all the way back to 1999, but I'm not sure it would be such a blessing to find them as I already have my hands full with so many games to play. Anyway, here they are : Bringer 1.5; ExChess 3.09, ZChess 1.2 and KnightX 1.50.
Many thanks if you can help.
Please feel free to ask yourself for old engines if you wish to have them : I have now plenty of them.
Of course I am only talking about engines that are (or were) freely avalaible !
Best wishes.
Y. Snoeckx