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Chess engine Jazz now available
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:21 pm
by Evert
My chess program Jazz is now available for download, from the website
http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/chess-index.html , which also includes some general background information about the program as well as its younger sibling Sjaak (which I now remember I had to think about giving another name...).
Jazz plays chess, Sjaak plays a couple of games including chess.
For the moment, only source code is available for download. I can provide universal MacOS X binaries as well as 32 bit Linux and Windows binaries later. Unfortunately I can't produce 64 bit Linux or Windows binaries.
Jazz has both a UCI and an XBoard interface, so should be usable from any standard chess GUI (I've mainly used XBoard myself).
(By the way, I apologise beforehand to anyone brave enough to look at the source code, it's in dire need of some massive cleanup).
Re: Chess engine Jazz now available
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:29 pm
by Dann Corbit
Evert wrote:My chess program Jazz is now available for download, from the website
http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/chess-index.html, which also includes some general background information about the program as well as its younger sibling Sjaak (which I now remember I had to think about giving another name...).
Jazz plays chess, Sjaak plays a couple of games including chess.
For the moment, only source code is available for download. I can provide universal MacOS X binaries as well as 32 bit Linux and Windows binaries later. Unfortunately I can't produce 64 bit Linux or Windows binaries.
Jazz has both a UCI and an XBoard interface, so should be usable from any standard chess GUI (I've mainly used XBoard myself).
(By the way, I apologise beforehand to anyone brave enough to look at the source code, it's in dire need of some massive cleanup).
I get this:
The webpage cannot be found
HTTP 404
If I shorten the link to this:
http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/
I see a menu:
Main
Home
Games
Carcassonne
Dungeon of Darkness
Rise of the Tribes
Useful libraries
Allegro
AllegroGL
Libnet
Miscellaneous
Allegro.cc
But no chess program.
Re: Chess engine Jazz now available
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:32 pm
by Evert
Dann Corbit wrote:
I get this:
The webpage cannot be found
HTTP 404
If I shorten the link to this:
http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/
I see a menu:
Main
Home
Games
Carcassonne
Dungeon of Darkness
Rise of the Tribes
Useful libraries
Allegro
AllegroGL
Libnet
Miscellaneous
Allegro.cc
But no chess program.
No, those are older programming projects of mine, there is no link between those pages.
Anyway, should be fixed now (the problem was the , that the forum stuck to the end of the URL, I've added an extra space).
Re: Chess engine Jazz now available
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:39 pm
by Dann Corbit
Re: Chess engine Jazz now available
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 11:35 pm
by Christopher Conkie
Re: Chess engine Jazz now available
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 12:10 am
by Dann Corbit
The version I made will compile on a C90 compiler like Visual C++, which is why I offered it as an alternative.
Re: Chess engine Jazz now available
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:47 am
by Evert
I've now added Win32 and Mac OS X binaries for both the XBoard and UCI versions. I've also added a link to the Win32 compile for Sjaak contributed by Dann Corbit (thanks!).
Re: Chess engine Jazz now available
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:50 am
by Evert
Thanks! I've added that file to the download page.
I'll think about back-porting your changes back into the repository. I'm a bit reluctant to let go of C99, although I haven't used it that extensively.
The main concern is that I'll undoubtedly break something again in the future.
Re: Chess engine Jazz now available
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 3:34 am
by Kirill Kryukov
Thanks and congrats on this long awaited release, Evert! Added to my testing queue.

Re: Chess engine Jazz now available
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 4:13 am
by Adam Hair
Thank you for sharing both engines Evert.