Für Steve B. Wchess Ver 1.06

JeffB · Post by **JeffB** » Sat Aug 11, 2018 8:51 pm

Thanks for the tip re D-Fend. I'll see what I can arrange re a dropbox for the disk. Do you need the driver disks too? (I think they're mainly to interface the chess engines to the Universal Chess Board.)

chesspcmac · Post by **chesspcmac** » Sat Aug 11, 2018 10:22 pm

JeffB; Im also interested in the discs if you dont mind. Thanks

me too regards, Mike

Liston · Post by **Liston** » Sun Aug 12, 2018 4:40 am

JeffB wrote: That disk likely contains the interface program only. A separate disk contains the WChess program, and yet another an early version of HIARCS (where have I heard that name before?).

I have all of the disks and will gladly share. Unfortunately, I have Windows 10, and even with setting compatibility mode to Windows 95, Win10 64-bit cannot install the program, so I can't even tell what version I have. The wchess.exe date is Jan 9, 1995 (if that helps). Here's the directory listing of that disk:
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 Volume in drive D has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 0000-0000

 Directory of d&#58;\UCB Driver - WChess

08/11/2014  12&#58;50 PM    <DIR>          .
08/11/2014  12&#58;50 PM    <DIR>          ..
10/23/1994  10&#58;28 PM             1,909 BK.POS
12/06/1994  02&#58;12 PM           244,716 DOS4GW.EXE
11/07/1994  08&#58;21 PM             1,130 FAILLOW.POS
10/25/1994  10&#58;41 AM           244,789 FISCHER.PGN
10/24/1994  07&#58;51 PM           242,439 FISCHER1.PGN
12/05/1994  05&#58;41 PM            30,109 GPIECES.BIN
11/08/1994  08&#58;10 AM             6,920 HCUP.GAM
10/25/1994  10&#58;29 AM            39,788 HCUPGAME.LST
11/08/1994  12&#58;54 AM            33,360 INSTALL.EXE
10/23/1994  11&#58;12 PM             1,790 MATES.POS
08/04/1994  03&#58;15 PM           203,256 OPENBK.BIN
01/09/1995  10&#58;23 AM             1,355 README
10/22/1994  08&#58;40 PM             1,813 TESTLAR.POS
10/25/1994  10&#58;41 AM            23,617 WAC.EPD
01/09/1995  10&#58;38 AM           214,637 WCHESS.EXE
              15 File&#40;s&#41;      1,291,628 bytes
               2 Dir&#40;s&#41;  116,671,119,360 bytes free
If you think this could be the version you're looking for, let me know and we'll find a way to get a copy to you. (I doubt that copying a program from 1995 violates anybody's copyright, even if researchers were able to find the copyright holder.)

Hi JeffB!
Unafortunaly, your version is, probably, the 1.05, already available.
I can send a working version to you!
Using DOS-Box you can use it in Windows 10!

I say it because the .exe file size! Exactly the same size of the 1.05 version.
In an old advertise from an German chess store, is said that the version in Saphire packet was 1.06... And there are many other sources quoting it!
But... Nobody really knows if there was really an 1.06 version!

Best regards JeffB!

JeffB · Post by **JeffB** » Sun Aug 12, 2018 6:44 pm

I'll put zip files of the discs on a shared drive by the end of the upcoming week and share the link with interested folks.

Thanks for the tip and offer, Liston. I don't anticipate needing to run this. The only reason I tried to run it was to determine the version number.

Volodymyr · Post by **Volodymyr** » Sun Aug 12, 2018 8:23 pm

Hi,
I also have version 1.05, size WCHESS.EXE 214,637. Just another date 24-04-1995.
This version is free on the Internet.

IvenGO · Post by **IvenGO** » Mon Aug 13, 2018 10:48 am

I suppose that Wchess 1.6 (AKA 1.06) was released as WB / UCI engine only and could be used in Arena GUI; I have it on my PC.

fhub · Post by **fhub** » Mon Aug 13, 2018 11:12 am

Volodymyr wrote:Hi,
I also have version 1.05, size WCHESS.EXE 214,637. Just another date 24-04-1995.
This version is free on the Internet.

Yes, this is the version which I posted in the CCC-forum a few years ago.
I've removed the copyprotection from the original file, and I got the permission from David Kittinger to publish this modified version.

The date of WCHESS.EXE is not the date when the program was compiled, but the date of the first installation: when you install WChess you're asked for your name, and this name is written into the installed WCHESS.EXE, so of course the date changes with every installation.

Franz

chesspcmac · Post by **chesspcmac** » Mon Aug 13, 2018 12:22 pm

PM if you would like to share it

Thanks

Mike

Sharing is good regards

Volodymyr · Post by **Volodymyr** » Mon Aug 13, 2018 12:39 pm

fhub wrote: Yes, this is the version which I posted in the CCC-forum a few years ago.
I've removed the copyprotection from the original file, and I got the permission from David Kittinger to publish this modified version.

Thanks for the info.
Вut is there a version of 1.06 DOS?
You have information?

fhub · Post by **fhub** » Mon Aug 13, 2018 1:04 pm

chesspcmac wrote:PM if you would like to share it

Well, as already mentioned this version is available on different internet sites, so I don't need to re-upload it again.

One direct link:
http://old-dos.ru/dl.php?id=9057

Franz

fhub · Post by **fhub** » Mon Aug 13, 2018 1:07 pm

Volodymyr wrote: Âut is there a version of 1.06 DOS?
You have information?

No, I've also never seen a DOS version 1.06 of WChess, and l share IvenGo's opinion, that the 1.06 means in fact the WB-version 1.6.

Franz

Liston · Post by **Liston** » Mon Aug 13, 2018 2:36 pm

IvenGO wrote:I suppose that Wchess 1.6 (AKA 1.06) was released as WB / UCI engine only and could be used in Arena GUI; I have it on my PC.

The Legend of WChess 1.06:

There are many references to the 1.06 version!
Defunct site Gambitsoft...
Some of them explicitly citing "MS-Dos version"
But, is fact, apparently nobody have [or had] it!

There are actually 3 "relived" (using the Huber method) versions of WChess.
And 1 or 2 private versions 3.02 (it's a fact) & 3.03 (possibly) never shared!
Thus if really there was a 1.06 version, it's was very probably a very rare version!

Recently, I could find a interesting adverting from a very famous German chess store (https://www.schachversand.de/de/sapphir ... novag.html) about Novag's Saphire II Deluxe, explicitly saying "WChess 1.06 included"... it was a Saphire special limited edition...

Thus, I devoted to defeat the infamous "Huber's Conjecture"...

Never there was one 1.06 version!
The "version" 1.06 is only the engine version 1.6...

I could find 3 people with that limited rare edition!
Steve Blincoe can't find his WChess diskette, an spanish guy from Guadalajara city (near Madrid) have his diskett, but is away from foruns by now...
And JeffB has apparently (with 99.9999% ) the 1.05 version...

Are all WChess on Sapphire II Delluxe just 1.05 version?
Maybe...

Apparently "Huber's Conjecture" is reinforced!

But maybe one day a member here receives a private message...
"The Huber's Conjecture was Wrong!"

I still searching for the Graal...

Best regards, Liston

mclane · Post by **mclane** » Mon Aug 13, 2018 8:57 pm

Better than running it on Windows is running it on android mobile phones,
That allows you to have your beloved programs with you in your trousers.

Liston · Post by **Liston** » Mon Aug 13, 2018 11:42 pm

Liston wrote: There are actually 3 "relived" (using the Huber method) versions of WChess.
And 1 or 2 private versions 3.02 (it's a fact) & 3.03 (possibly) never shared!

Actually:
There are actually 3 "relived" (using the Huber method) versions of WChess.
And 1 or 2 private versions: 1.02 (it's a fact) & 1.03 (possibly) never shared!

chesspcmac · Post by **chesspcmac** » Tue Aug 14, 2018 2:04 pm

Thanks for the link!!!

Lets Make Hiarcs Chess Forums Great Again....

Great group of people regards
Mike

HIARCS Chess Forums

Für Steve B. Wchess Ver 1.06

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