WB/UCI chronology pages updated and reworked

[Guenther Simon]

I have updated my WB/UCI(free programs) chronology pages.
Now there are two new columns 'RWBC ratings' and more important
a 'Web' column(gives a link to the programs homepage or alternative
download possibility e.g. Leos' WBEC or Jims' downloads).
The rating column can be sorted by clicking at the header.
(For readability I removed the column 'Next/current RWBC class' to play,
it would have been obsolete anyway soon...)
I tried to find the newest available links, if you find some unavailable
not working ones, please report it to me.
As there are more and more unavailable ones at all I decided to
offer a lot of them at my own download page(minus those I was
sure the authors dislike the offer or publically announced their retreat
of downloads).
If there still should be a legal problem with one of the offered ones,
please notify me too and I will remove the item in question at once.

Here is a list of programs available there:

# ENGINES(no active homepage anymore):

Asterisk 0.4b by Peter Horvath
Bodo 0.2b by Joel Venesse
(Der) Bringer 1.9 by Gerrit Reubold
ECE 0.1 by Luigi Viscione
Embracer 1.12 by Benny Antonsson
Excelsior 2.32b by Marek Klonowski
Fortress 1.62 by Alessandro Damiani
Gargamella 0.50 by Nicola Rizzuti
GK 0.90 by Tijs van Dam
Gothmog 1.0b10 by Tord Romstad
iChess by Liao, Sang, Zheng
JanWillem 1.13 by Laurens Winkelhagen
Joana by Juan Pablo Mendoza(compiled by Dann Corbit)
Jester 0.83 by Marty Franz(compiled by Dann Corbit)
KillerQueen 2.0b3 by Lorenzo Stella
LambChop 10.99by Peter McKenzie
Laurifer 1.0 by Robert Lubczynski
Marvin 1.30 by Martin Danielsson
MiniChessAI 1.19 by Marcin Gardyjan
Mint 2.3 by Christian Söderström
Monik 2.11 by Sylvain Lacombe(bugfixed by George Lyapko)
MrChess 2.1 by Aloysius Han
NoonianChess 3.6e2 by Charles Roberson
Pentagon 1.2 by Andrea Gatti
Plywood 1.73X by Jim Bumgardner
Ranita 2.4 by Jean-Yves Lallemand
Requiem 0.53 by Severi Salminen
Sierzant 0.26 by Mariusz Rostek
Simon 1.1 by Dan Honeycutt
Sinapse 1.0 by Mel Goto
SnailChess 4.013 by Chan Rashjid
StAndersen 1.31 by Erik Robertson
Tristram 3.36 by James Swafford

I want to mention that I have updated the book downloads too
and IIRC the rating lists were updated too a while ago.

Regards,
Guenther

[Roger Brown]

Hello Guenther,

Thanks immensely for this huge service to the computerchess community.

I am going to grab some of these engines right now!

Some of them are missing from my collection...which I thought was extensive.



Are they all packed with their usage (commands etc.) documentation? Of course there is nothing wrong with a little experimentation on a Saturday evening.

Thanks for the quality books as well.

Later.

Ps. Check your PM folder.

[Peter Horvath]

Hello Guenther,

Last week I reactivated Asterisk webpage. ( http://www.geocities.com/asterisk_chess/index.htm )
The last Asterisk version is downloadable from the website. I should like to inform you and the community that the new version will be published next week after the 5th Hungarian Computer Chess Championships.

Thank you for the possibility of access of Asterisk v0.4b on your website.

Best regards,
Péter

[Guenther Simon]

Hello Guenther,

Last week I reactivated Asterisk webpage. ( http://www.geocities.com/asterisk_chess/index.htm )
The last Asterisk version is downloadable from the website. I should like to inform you and the community that the new version will be published next week after the 5th Hungarian Computer Chess Championships.

Thank you for the possibility of access of Asterisk v0.4b on your website.

Best regards,
Péter

Thanks for the info Peter!
There is no need then for me to host it

Best wishes,
Guenther