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win32 = windows 32 bit compile | x64 = windows 64 bit compile | p.g.o = (profile guided optimized) compile. | SMP = Symmetric multiprocessing, use of multiple CPUs.

(updated 01-07-09)
Frittle 0.3 JA (Wb)
by Rohan Padhye
http://sourceforge.net/projects/frittle/

Windows 32bit Excelsior Jet optimized compile.
Programmed in Java.

http://www.mediafire.com/?yoxntknyz2y

Dabbaba logo by Jim Ablett update (updated 25-06-09)
Dabbaba 1.85 wb JA (Wb) (WbF)
by Jens B'k Nielsen
http://www.jens-musik.dk/dabbaba.htm

Windows win32 Intel compiler 10 p.g.o build.

http://www.mediafire.com/?zvjmomyhhyt

Winboard & UCI Chess Engines

Sungorus 1.0.1 JA (UCI)
by Pablo Vazquez
http://sites.google.com/site/sungorus/

Windows x64/win32 Intel compiler 11/10 pgo builds.

http://www.mediafire.com/?2imzzzmtevn

Crafty 23.0 JA (Wb)
by Prof. Robert Hyatt
ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt

Windows x64/win32 Msvc/Intel compiler 10 p.g.o

http://www.mediafire.com/?znmodt0yzi2
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Crafty book   (needed for 23 series!)
Frank Quisinsky's
'gm-2600-pgn' (35 ply limit)' (9mb )

http://www.mediafire.com/?zymme5nuioq

Logo by Wilhelm Hudetz
Pepito 1.59.2 JA (Wb) (UCI)
by Carlos del Cacho
http://www.quarkchess.de/pepito/

Windows x64 Msvc p.g.o build

What's new:
1. Fixed EGTB acccess in 64 bit.

http://www.mediafire.com/?zmy1w5jyynn

Scorpio 2.1 JA (Wb)
by Daniel Shawul
http://dshawul.googlepages.com/hom e

Windows x64 & win32 Intel compiler 11/10 p.g.o builds.

http://www.mediafire.com/?znmtjwzdzwz

Schola 1.04 JA (Wb)
by Andy Platt
http://mysite.verizon.net/the_platts/schola.html

win32 Msvc p.g.o compile.

Andy's build crashes on my Athlon-XP, so I
compiled a version which should run on all systems.

http://www.mediafire.com/?yucwiymdhtu

ZZZZZZ 3.5.0 JA (Wb)
by Gijsbert Wiesenekker
http://tinyurl.com/5ztfd6

Original program released 1993.

What's new:
1. Fixed resign bug (losses on time in dead lost positions).
   (Thanks to Guenther Simon for bug report.)

http://www.mediafire.com/?id2mg5uanyi

MsKcp 1.4.4 JA (Wb) (WbF)
by Marcel Van Kervinck
http://chess.bitpit.net/mscp/

A version of Mscp that plays 'Knightmate'
chess variant (also still plays normal chess).

This engine also replaces old unofficial Mscp 1.6g

What's New:
1. Fixed initialization crash bug.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ytylzy2mzmc

AliBaba 1.17wb JA (Wb)
by Dennis Breuker
http://www.dennisbreuker.nl/
http://cap.connx.com/Alibaba/

Original program released 1995.

What's New: (big update)
1. Added wb 'edit' mode so engine can now start from fen position.
2. Added wb 'analyze' function so engine can analyze a fen position.
3. Fixed fluctuating pv score.
4. Fixed king check crash bug (again!)
5. More changable options in alibaba.ini
6. Some eval tuning.

http://www.mediafire.com/?yz2z1gjzqon

StockFish 1.3.1 JA (UCI)
by Marco Costalba
Based on Glaurung by Tord Romstad

Windows x64 (Intel) / win32 (Msvc) p.g.o builds

What's new:
Fixed Glaurung 2 opening book support.

http://www.mediafire.com/?nttzqnfkakd

http://cosinekitty.com/chenard
Chenard (xchenard) 2009.03.05 JA (Wb)
by Don Cross

Win32 Intel compiler 10 p.g.o build.

http://www.mediafire.com/?jiyydymr4ml

Logo by David Dahlem
Sunsetter C10.3 JA (Wb)
by Ben Dean-Kawamura &
Georg Zimmermann
http://sunsetter.sourceforge.net/

Windows x64/32bit Intel compiler 11/10 p.g.o builds.

What's new:
1. Fixed to compile cleanly with Intel compilers
2. EGTB usage fixed in 64-bit version
3. Opening book usage fixed.
4. Created new opening book file from Olivier Deville's 'Gm2001.pgn'

http://www.mediafire.com/?k4jrohfyldm

Amundsen 0.80 JA (Wb)
by John Bergbom
http://www.bergbomconsulting.se/chess/

Windows x64 & win32 Msvc compiler p.g.o

http://www.mediafire.com/?rtd5z3jbybt

Sissa 0.12.0 JA (UCI)
by Christophe J. Mandin
http://mnc.chez-alice.fr/SISSA/en/index_en.html

Windows win32 Intel compiler 10 p.g.o build

Chrisophe's build doesn't work on my Athlon so I
compiled this one. This version should work on all
systems. Also created a new logo.

http://www.mediafire.com/?wnot3gzzmzo

Slibo 0.4.6 JA (Wb)
by Gunther Piez
http://slibo.sourceforge.net/

A win32 port of the chess engine that comes as part
of the Slibo Linux chess gui program.

What's new:
1. Analysis mode was broken.
2. '-xboard' switch no longer needed

http://www.mediafire.com/?mnydjg3yydy

Logo by David Dahlem
Fimbulwinter 5.02 JA (Wb)
http://www.shedletsky.com/chess/

Windows win32 Intel compiler 10 p.g.o build

What's new:
1. Fixed a bug in the force mode which would make the engine
crash if it used an external gui opening book.

http://www.mediafire.com/?tedziyzmg5x

Glaurung 2.2 JA (UCI)
by Tord Romstad
http://www.glaurungchess.com/

Windows p.g.o Win32 (msvc) /x64 (Intel) builds.

http://www.mediafire.com/?dgkwm0gmmgi

Win98 users download this Intel 32 bit pgo compile instead (32bit build above will not work correctly for you) >

http://www.mediafire.com/?cy1cw12jemh

Logo by Wilhelm Hudetz
Exchess 5.02 beta JA (Wb)
by Daniel C. Homan
http://personal.denison.edu/~homand/EXchess.htm

Windows x64/win32 Intel compiler 11/ 10 p.g.o builds.

What's new:
EGTB support re-enabled. (was disabled by author in 5.01 beta)
EGTB usage in 64-bit fixed.
Re-compiled both x64 & win32 exes.

http://www.mediafire.com/?gzgiy4djjof

Logo by David Dahlem

Matacz Version 1.4 [Recaptures] (Wb)
by Maciej Pestka
http://matacz.110mb.com/Matacz.html

Similar strength to 1.3, but seems to be a little bit stronger on short time controls (needs to be tested on longer times).

Added some recapture extensions
Try to fix "to early move" bug (in rare cases moving instantly after search on depth 2)

Matacz 1.4 with 74 MB hash table: (compiled by Maciej)

http://www.mediafire.com/?r5zmzyj3rmz

Opening book [OMPPS 6 book] http://www.mediafire.com/?imdevf1pwjd

SCP/GnuChess 2.01 JA (Wb)
by John Stanback
http://john.stanback.net/

Win32 Msvc p.g.o compile.

Final program by John Stanback that contributed to
the GnuChess engine. First released 5-23-88.

Converted to Winboard protocol.

What's new: (Fixes by John Stanback)
Hashtable bugfix.
Inrcremental time added.
Code cleanup.
Unix/Ncurses dependencies removed.

http://www.mediafire.com/?mm4zuwory2m

Logo by Wilhelm Hudetz
GNUchess 5.07 JA (Wb)
by Chua Kong-Sian & Stuart Cracraft
http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/

Windows x64 & win32 Intel compiler 10 p.g.o builds

http://www.mediafire.com/?126jzt560mi
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GNUchess 5.07 4j (Wb)
Java port by Xan Gregg
http://www.forthgo.com/chessbox/

Java version compiled to native windows binary
(Excelsior Jet Speed compile)

http://www.mediafire.com/?ypqdbuvrmdm
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GNUchess 3.1 rev 0.2 JA (Wb)
by John Stanback & Stuart Cracraft
http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/

what's new:
Pv output.
Resign.
Small bugfixes.

First released in 1991.

Also includes a build of original console-based engine (for historical purposes) to run on modern computers.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ynwjddzyuww
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GnuChess 5 (Gazebo) (1999) JA (Wb)
by Chua Kong Sian & Stuart Cracraft
http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/

Windows cygwin-gcc win32 build.

Source code first released October 15, 1999

http://www.mediafire.com/?ptzxdghcb3j

Logo by Wilhelm Hudetz
GNUchess 4x JA (Wb)
by John Stanback & Stuart Cracraft
http://www.tim-mann.org/gnuchess.html

Windows mingw32 builds

I had a request to compile the available 4x sources, so here they are.
Download contains the following executables:

gnuchess-4.0.pl75 ja
gnuchess-4.0.pl77 ja
gnuchess-4.0.pl78 ja
gnuchess-4.0.pl79 ja
gnuchess-4.0.pl80 ja

http://www.mediafire.com/?wm1mjkoltxy

Typhoon 1.00 rev 358 JA (Wb)
by Scott Gasch
http://wannabe.guru.org/scott/hobbies/chess/
http://wannabe.guru.org/svn/typhoon/trunk/

Win32 Intel compiler 10 SMP p.g.o build
Now compatible with older operating systems.
http://www.mediafire.com/?9nqg6zsefqi

Opening book:
(Frank Quisinsky's 'GM2600' pgn - unchanged)
http://www.mediafire.com/?h0rriehqmtw

Logo by Patrick Buchmann
Rotor 0.4 JA
by Jan Brouwer
http://home.hetnet.nl/~f2hjbrouwer120/index.html

MSVC compiler p.g.o build.

http://www.mediafire.com/?jnzxi0m0qmm

Xpdnt 080927 JA (Wb)
by David B. Weller
http://www.debog.com/ai/

Win32 Intel compiler 10 p.g.o build

http://www.mediafire.com/?qrzxenzlztz

Obender 3.24 JA (Wb)
by Evgeniy Korniloff
http://evgeniy-korniloff.narod.ru/download.html

Windows Intel compiler 10 X64 & win32 builds

Last open-source version. Includes time control bugfix.

http://www.mediafire.com/?4jjn5wgzmg0

C.P.W build 050908 JA (UCI)
by The CPW team
http://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/

Windows win32 Intel compiler 10 p.g.o

http://www.mediafire.com/?lwgz0nmmjtr

Logo by David Dahlem
Thor's Hammer 2.28.2 JA (Wb)
by Toma Roncevic
http://www.geocities.com/toma_st/thorshammer.html

Windows x64 /win32 Intel compiler 11/10 p.g.o builds

What's new:
EGTB usage in 64-bit fixed.
Re-compiled both x64 & win32 exes.
64-bit version achieves huge speed/nps gains over 32-bit build.

http://www.mediafire.com/?lohgmxjgmyo

Logo by Graham Banks
Cyrano 0.6b17 JA (Wb) (UCI)
by Harald Johnsen
http://sites.estvideo.net/tipunch/cyrano/
Now compatible with older operating systems.

Windows x64 & win32 Intel 10 p.g.o builds.

http://www.mediafire.com/?irbxzwsspxt

Logo by David Dahlem
Surprise 4.3 beta 13 JA (Wb)
by Sven Schüle
http://www.schuelebln.de/chess/

Win32 Intel compiler 10 p.g.o build.

http://www.mediafire.com/?lzxyfgmntny

QuteChess 1.01t revision 3 JA (UCI)
by Ales Zamuda
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qutechess/

Windows Mingw-gcc win32 build.

What's new:
Bugfixes & time control adjustments

http://www.mediafire.com/?ozo5h2jlmhz

Kace 0.82 JA (Wb)
by Aaron Baird
http://www.aaronbaird.net/kace/

Windows win32 Cygwin-gcc build.

what's new:
1. Fixed resign crash bug.

http://www.mediafire.com/?pifawxyjyn8

Chess One 2.01 JA (Wb)
by Evgeniy Korniloff
http://evgeniy-korniloff.narod.ru/download.html

Windows x64 & win32 Intel compiler 10 builds .
Final open src version.

What's new:
Bugfix for time problems playing as black.

http://www.mediafire.com/?hroiftgilzn

MFChess 1.3 JA (Wb)
by Mats Forsén
http://home.texoma.net/~garnax/

Windows win32 Intel compiler 10 p.g.o

what's new:
Fixed crash bug.
Adjustments to time comtrol.

http://www.mediafire.com/?rqgeol0optq

Brutus 6.1 JA (Wb)
by Stephan Vermeire
http://home.casema.nl/vermeire/brutus.html

Windows Intel compiler 10 x64 & win32 builds .

http://www.mediafire.com/?wzfnmyt5nzz

StAndersen 1.31c rev 2 JA (Wb)
by Erik Robertsson
http://www.student.lu.se//main.html

Windows x64 & win32 Intel compiler 10 p.g.o builds

What's new:
Added command line option ' -draw_off ' to turn off draw claims.

http://www.mediafire.com/?3inxrjgudlt

(updated 25-08-08)
Joanna 2002 1.03 JA (Wb)
by Adam Kujawski
http://www.apsys.waw.pl/joanna2002
Now compatible with older operating systems.

Windows win32 Intel compiler 10 p.g.o

what's new:
Further time control tweaking.

http://www.mediafire.com/?kirls1lxaa8

Logo by Uschi
Bruja 1.9 JA (Wb)
by Dan Honeycutt
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/enginesindex.htm

Windows x64 & win32 Intel compiler p.g.o 10 builds.

Thanks to Dan Honeycutt for allowing me to
compile the private source code.

http://www.mediafire.com/?izx01be51kt

Dendron 0.42 JA (Wb)
by James D. Taylor
http://jdtaylor.org/

Windows win32 Intel compiler 10 p.g.o

http://www.mediafire.com/?t01zqbcwlws

Simon 1.2 JA (Wb)
by Dan Honeycutt
http://www.rwbc-chess.de/download.htm

Windows x64 & win32 Intel compiler p.g.o 10 builds.

http://www.mediafire.com/?zjocufmzxcs

Logo by Patrick Buchmann
Philemon C JA (UCI)
by Dominik Kaser
http://philemon.cycovery.com/

Windows x64 & win32 Intel compiler p.g.o 10 builds.

http://www.mediafire.com/?n2mty1k38ah

Logo by Wilhelm Hudetz
Sjeng 11.2 JA (Wb)
by Gian-Carlo Pascutto
http://www.sjeng.org/indexold.html

Windows x64 & win32 Intel compiler p.g.o 10 builds.
Includes new opening book built from :
Frank Quisinsky's 'gm-2600-pgn'

http://www.mediafire.com/?zhj7ilzxmzu

Logo by David Dahlem
DanChess 1.04a JA (Wb)
by Daniel Shawul
http://tinyurl.com/6bofjb

Windows x64 & win32 Intel compiler p.g.o 10 builds.
Includes new opening book built from :
Frank Quisinsky's 'gm-2600-pgn'

http://www.mediafire.com/?svfmfo5chwl

Freyr 1.068 JA (Wb)
by Andrei Fortuna
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/3716/

Windows x64 & win32 Intel compiler p.g.o 10 builds.
Includes new opening book built from :
Frank Quisinsky's 'gm-2600-pgn'

http://www.mediafire.com/?hxfsygndosc

Logo by David Dahlem
Gk 0.90 JA (Wb)
By Tijs van Dam
http://tinyurl.com/5tq5to

Windows x64 & win32 Intel compiler 10 p.g.o
& universal processor builds.

http://www.mediafire.com/?gtiyqmmtygk

ZCT logo
ZCT 0.3.2500 JA (Wb) (UCI)
by Zach Wegner
http://zct.sourceforge.net/

Windows x64/win32 Intel 11/10 pgo SMP builds

What's new:
Includes Dr Wael Deeb's official ZCT opening book.

http://www.mediafire.com/?hniynjn2fmn

Hoichess 0.10.3 JA (Wb)
by Holger Ruckdeschel
http://tinyurl.com/6rdfk5

Windows x64 & win32 Intel compiler 10 p.g.o
& universal processor builds.

http://www.mediafire.com/?eea53yzzldf

Logo by David Dahlem
Gerbil Release 02 JA (Wb)
by Bruce Moreland
http://tinyurl.com/5mlumz

Windows x64 Intel compiler 10 p.g.o build.

http://www.mediafire.com/?zw3caufcvj0

Logo by Wilhelm Hudetz
Toga II 3.1.2SE JA (UCI)
by F.Letouzey/
T.Gaksch/C.Formula
http://tinyurl.com/2qxv9n

Win32 Intel compiler 10 p.g.o build
Includes 'performance.bin' opening book by Marc Lacrosse.
Includes Eelco de Groot's 'Chekov' settings file.

http://www.mediafire.com/?zsuf3heoevf

Logo by Wilhelm Hudetz
Toga II 1.41SE JA (UCI)
by F.Letouzey/
T.Gaksch/C.Formula
http://tinyurl.com/2qxv9n

Win32 Intel compiler 10 p.g.o build
Now compatible with older operating systems.

Single/dual/quad/eight/sixteen cpu builds included.
Includes 'performance.bin' opening book by Marc Lacrosse.
Includes Eelco de Groot's 'Chekov' settings file.

http://www.mediafire.com/?reu8f7j1qmk

Gambit Fruit 1.0 beta 4bx JA (UCI)
by F.Letouzey/
R.Benitez/T.Gaksch
http://www.superchessengine.com/gambit_fruit.htm

Win32 Intel compiler 10 p.g.o build

http://www.mediafire.com/?xhwh62m6evi

Logo by David Dahlem
Scidlet 3.61 JA (Wb)
by Shane Hudson
http://scid.sourceforge.net/

Windows x64 & win32 Intel compiler 10 p.g.o builds

v3.61 adds an IID function by Dann Corbit
to the search. This can be switched off by adding useIID = false
to the 'scidlet.ini' file. (recommended)

http://www.mediafire.com/?lfjnjr53kwg

Logo by David Dahlem
Resp 0.19 JA (Wb)
by Peter Rosendahl
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/enginesindex.htm

Windows x64 & win32 Intel compiler 10 p.g.o builds

http://www.mediafire.com/?1vkfz38rfm0

RomiChess P3k JA   (Wb)
by Michael Sherwin
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details/RomiChess

Windows x64 & win32 Intel compiler 10 p.g.o builds

http://www.mediafire.com/?412ec2lhyow

RomiChess P3k Per (beta) JA   (Wb)
Special build of Romichess P3k with
personality file to adjust eval parameters.

what's new:
Added option to switch off resign.

http://www.mediafire.com/?tuteromu73h

Sloppy 0.2.0 JA (Wb)
by Ilari Pihlajisto
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~ilaripih/sloppy/index.html

Windows x64 & win32 Intel compiler 10 p.g.o builds

http://www.mediafire.com/?wohiqbnktva

Logo by Wilhelm Hudetz
Amy 0.8 mp JA (Wb)
by Thorsten Greiner
http://tinyurl.com/5v7ush

Windows x64 & win32 Intel compiler 10 p.g.o builds.
(also includes 0.87b 32bit Dann Corbit build +book)

http://www.mediafire.com/?ms1pq41zm1z

Prophet 2.0 JA (Wb)
by James Swafford
http://chessprogramming.org/prophe t/

Windows x64 & win32 Intel compiler 10 p.g.o builds.

http://www.mediafire.com/?srjsntbucdb

Opening book (unchanged). 5.56mb
Copy into Prophet folder