Chess engine Jazz now available

[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).

[Dann Corbit]

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.

[Evert]

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).

[Dann Corbit]

Here is a C89 version of Sjaak:
http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new- ... h/Sjaak.7z

[Christopher Conkie]

Here is a C89 version of Sjaak:
http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new- ... h/Sjaak.7z

These look direct.

http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/downl ... 421.tar.gz

http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/downl ... 149.tar.gz

Very nice Evert.

[Dann Corbit]

Here is a C89 version of Sjaak:
http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new- ... h/Sjaak.7z

These look direct.

http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/downl ... 421.tar.gz

http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/downl ... 149.tar.gz

Very nice Evert.

The version I made will compile on a C90 compiler like Visual C++, which is why I offered it as an alternative.

[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!).

[Evert]

Here is a C89 version of Sjaak:
http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new- ... h/Sjaak.7z

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.

[Kirill Kryukov]

Thanks and congrats on this long awaited release, Evert! Added to my testing queue.

[Adam Hair]

Thank you for sharing both engines Evert.