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by chess-wizard
Thu Sep 22, 2011 3:14 am
Forum: Engines, GUIs, Books and Platforms
Topic: A new chess GUI for UCI engines
Replies: 4
Views: 5332

Re: A new chess GUI for UCI engines

Chess Wizard is the name of a powerful chess program, by Frenchman Frederic Louguet.
During the years 1999 to 2006, it participated to the French Computer Chess Championship (even winning it at least once).
Unfortunately, the program has remained private.
Fortunately, this name is not protected as ...
by chess-wizard
Thu Sep 22, 2011 3:06 am
Forum: Engines, GUIs, Books and Platforms
Topic: Stockfish detected as malware?
Replies: 2
Views: 2373

Stockfish detected as malware?

The stockfish win32 engine downloaded from stockfishchess.com, stockfish-211-32-ja.exe, is detected as a malware, by the infamous chinese anti-virus qihoo 360. I think I have to recompile it in the next release of Chess Wizard.

Is this engine also reported as threat by other anti-viruses?
by chess-wizard
Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:30 pm
Forum: Engines, GUIs, Books and Platforms
Topic: A new chess GUI for UCI engines
Replies: 4
Views: 5332

Re: A new chess GUI for UCI engines

(1) Chess Wizard doesn't support books yet. In fact, Stockfish does.
(2) TGD is not supported because I have not such a device. I think it sounds good to connect to ICS.

Thanks chess-wizard. I downloaded but haven't installed it yet to test out basic functions etc. In the meantime, I have a couple ...
by chess-wizard
Wed Sep 21, 2011 6:54 am
Forum: Engines, GUIs, Books and Platforms
Topic: A new chess GUI for UCI engines
Replies: 4
Views: 5332

A new chess GUI for UCI engines

Hi all,

I used to be the developer of Mobile Chess and Flash Chess, and now start to release Chess Wizard: a free and powerful chess software to play, study, edit and publish games. The home page is:

http://www.chess-wizard.com/

It is derived from the famous Chinese chess (xiangqi) software ...