Where can I get Winboard engines that play Suicide Chess, Fischer Random and other variants?
The official public Winboard version has some limited support for variants. First, you will need to set /variant stringname in Winboard if playing locally (i.e not online). for example /variant crazyhouse for playing crazyhouse , /variant suicide for playing suicide FICS style , /atomic for atomic chess. Of the Winboard engines that can also play normal Chess, I’m only aware of New Rival and Sjeng 11.2 (The last freeware version 12.13 and commercial Deep Sjeng don’t do variants). Both can play variants such as Losers,crazyhouse and bughouse. A losers Chess version of Gerbil is also available. Other specialised Winboard engines that can play either bughouse or Crazyhouse only. A small list includes • KKFchess plays wild, atomic, suicide (FICS rules) and crazyhouse • Giveaway Wizard which plays suicide/losing/giveaway Chess. • Sunsetter – A modified and stronger Deep bug.Now also plays normal chess. • new[04-03-2002] Daefo -Plays a Czech version of Crazyhouse.
The official public Winboard version has some limited support for variants. First, you will need to set /variant stringname in Winboard if playing locally (i.e not online). for example /variant crazyhouse for playing crazyhouse , /variant suicide for playing suicide FICS style , /atomic for atomic chess. Of the Winboard engines that can also play normal Chess, I’m only aware of New Rival and Sjeng 11.2 (The last freeware version 12.13 and commercial Deep Sjeng don’t do variants). Both can play variants such as Losers,crazyhouse and bughouse. A losers Chess version of Gerbil is also available. Other specialised Winboard engines that can play either bughouse or Crazyhouse only. A small list includes • KKFchess plays wild, atomic, suicide (FICS rules) and crazyhouse • Giveaway Wizard which plays suicide/losing/giveaway Chess. • Sunsetter – A modified and stronger Deep bug.Now also plays normal chess. • [04-03-2002] Daefo -Plays a Czech version of Crazyhouse.
