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Scidb has implemented a most wanted feature: engine support. With revision
#476 an analysis window is available (use the locomotive/engine icon).

Momently the analysis window is a single window, not bound to the main
window. This will be changed as soon as a window layout management is
implemented (this will take a while).

Note that the engine is always starting in analysis mode - this means that
you cannot use engines which do not have an analysis mode (older WinBoard
engines). Playing against a computer is not planned in Scidb, for this
purpose another project is scheduled, called Jessy. Jessy will be designed
for computer/human matches, and will provide an interface to Scidb's
databases.

Scidb has bundled three engines:

- Stockfish is a very strong engine, which supports Chess 960, and some
  features like adjustable hash size, number of threads, and clearing the
  hash tables on the fly.

- Sjeng is a bit simple, but supports some interesting chess variants:
  Crazyhouse, Bughouse [German: Tandemschach], and Antichess [German:
  Schlagschach].

- Crafty is one of the most interesting WinBoard engines. It also supports
  some features: adjustable hash size, and number of threads. In a future
  version I will add chess variant Three-check to Crafty (it's relatively
  simple to do this).

Bundling the engine Sjeng is a bit forward-looking, one of the next
releases of Scidb will also provide support for all these variants (if
possible): Crazyhouse, Bughouse, Three-check, and Antichess (Suicide,
Giveaway, Losers).

-- 
Gregor Cramer
email: <gc...@gm...>

Scidb has implemented a most wanted feature: engine support. With revision #476 an analysis window is available (use the locomotive/engine icon).

Momently the analysis window is a single window, not bound to the main window. This will be changed as soon as a window layout management is implemented (this will take a while).

Note that the engine is always starting in analysis mode - this means that you cannot use engines which do not have an analysis mode (older WinBoard engines). Playing against a computer is not planned in Scidb, for this purpose another project is scheduled, called Jessy. Jessy will be designed for computer/human matches, and will provide an interface to Scidb's databases.

Scidb has bundled three engines:

- Stockfish is a very strong engine, which supports Chess 960, and some features like adjustable hash size, number of threads, and clearing the hash tables on the fly.

- Sjeng is a bit simple, but supports some interesting chess variants: Crazyhouse, Bughouse [German: Tandemschach], and Antichess [German: Räuberschach].

- Crafty is one of the most interesting WinBoard engines. It also supports some features: adjustable hash size, and number of threads. In a future version I will add chess variant Three-check to Crafty (it's relatively simple to do this).

Bundling the engine Sjeng is a bit forward-looking, one of the next releases of Scidb will also provide support for all these variants (if possible): Crazyhouse, Bughouse, Three-check, and Antichess (Suicide, Giveaway, Losers).
-- 
Gregor Cramer
email: <gc...@gm...>