ChessGenius Extras and downloads

ChessGenius can support external third party Chess "engines" that conform to the WinBoard standard. A chess engine is in effect a complete chess playing program written by an independant author, who may not want to go to the trouble of writing the "front-end" of the program - the graphics, user interface, database functions and so on. If you install such an engine in ChessGenius in the correct way, you can use the engine so that it either replaces the default ChessGenius engine, or so it supplements it, showing analysis in a new window. You may also play engine tournements and see which one is best! Some engines are even supplied with the C source code - thus you can learn how such programs are written! Be warned though - you will also need a zip file extraction utility such as WinZip, since many engines are supplied as ZIP files.

Before you can use WinBoard you will need to download the ChessGenius WinBoard converter. Click here to download wbkonverter.zip - save the fle in a temporary folder on your hard disk.

RUFFIAN is a strong WinBoard Chess engine. Visit http://ruffian.hkust.se/downloads.shtml and download the latest version of Ruffian. Extract this to a folder called "ruffian" in the ChessGenius engines folder - Normally this would be
"C:\Program Files\ChessGenius Classic\ENGINES\ruffian"
Although that can vary if you originally installed ChessGenius to a different location. Next extract the files contained in
wbkonverter.zip (see above) to the same folder. Finally Click here to download ruffian.zip and extract "ruffian.eng" from this file to the ChessGenius root directory (Normally "C:\Program Files\ChessGenius Classic" )
If you follow this proceedure correctly, next time you run ChessGenius and select "Options/Add Engine.." from the menu, you will be able to select the Ruffian engine. See the on-line help in Genius for more information on how to use external engines.

ChessGenius can also support Ken Thompsons 5 piece endgame databases - ie it can execute "perfect" play in most positions with 5 or less pieces, if these databases are present. We are planning to make these available as a set of 4 CDROMs or a DVD, together with some other material. If you are interested in this, please email us at support@ChessAndCheckers.com for more information..


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