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Hello I was considering Rybka or Houdini. I read that version 1.5a of Houdini is free but it appears author has removed. I tried Google but can't find it. Does anyone have the free version of Houdini chess engine? Supposedly the new Houdini 6 is stolen from Stockfish....if anyone has Houdini can the...

Thanks for the responses…I was looking at Nick's post, and it looked as if he was asserting that he got it working in DOSBOX…but I suppose that still prevents it being run in a gui as part of chess tournament, but then I was searching the web and came upon a post in a chess forum where someone menti...

How does one run Cstal 2 in a GUI? I have the program on CD as part of "10 board games", but I have no idea how to get this program to run in a chess GUI, since it has its own GUI. I thought someone had one time mentioned running Tal 2 in Dos Box, then running DosBox in a chess GUI. It all...

How does one load chesslink engine into chessgenius classic PC? I have tried using chesslink on an XP PC. Doesn't work. It DOES work on Windows 10 PC. Lars, is there any way to run chesslink UCI engine on Window XP version?

Hello Larry a friend of a friend who lives out of town has one of the Novag star ruby computers for sale. I haven't seen it yet but I've read online that the pieces are hard to see especially the white ones. what is your opinion about the LCD display on this unit ?thanks

Hello Larry, ...so how much did you pay for the used Star Ruby? Thanks

DOES ANYBODY know the programmers behind the cell phone chess programs. I really like PinkBird ARM for IOS.
Are these old ports of PC programs of the past or fresh works.
There is so much out there, I'm starting not to care.

-collector in the making

Wow, House of Staunton sold one for $200.00 bucks. I had one in 1992 and took it back. I tried for it, but not willing to pay 200 Bucks!! Question: I have Majestic Chess on PPC. It uses WChess2000 by Kittinger I believe. Does anyone know if this engine is in any Android or Ipod Touch chess apps?? I ...

Hello,
I have Majestic Chess on Pocket PC. Perhaps it uses WChess2000 by Kittinger. Do anyone know if any Android chess programs use this chess engine?