Today's Featured Article

Welcome to my article about faith written for modern 21th century people who are open-minded enough to ponder about the Origin of Life and its purpose.

Evidence will be presented for the existence and need for a Creator. Personal evidence, scientific evidence as well as Biblical evidence. Enjoy the reading. More…

Today's Featured Software

Back to the 80's. Play chess again against the Mephisto MMIV and MMV.

Instructions: extract the archive somewhere on your harddisk and run MESSGUI, then select either Mephisto 4 Schach Computer or Mephisto 5.1 Schach Computer from the menu. Download…

With kind permission from Saitek.

About this Web-Site

This web-site is about computer chess history mainly. One of its goal is to record as much of the older computer chess stuff before it will be gone forever. Issues: chess playing software, WB & UCI chess engines, PGN game collections, interviews, documented WC cycles, immortal human-computer chess matches, programmer stuff, chess program sources, dedicated chess computers etc.

Rebel Corner

Giant EOC chess tree
83 Million positions, downloadsize 483Mb.
Pro Deo 1.6
Latest and last. Slightly better than version 1.5
Old DOS REBEL's
Follow the installtion instructions.
Inside Pro Deo
At programmer level.
Pro Deo Opening Book
How to add the Pro Deo Opening Book to your chess engine.
Pro Deo utilities
YATS, Analyze PGN, Create large Opening Books, Opening Book Editor, Analyze Opening Books for errors, Create and use EOC databases. All in one program.
Add 20-30 ELO points
to your chess engine.
YATS
Yet Another Test System for your chess engine.

Most Popular

Fritz 5.32
The very best of best freeware.
Million Base 1.74
Major update. Now 1.74 Million quality games in PGN format.
Rybka 1.0
Strongest freeware chess engine.
Free chess programs.
Man vs Machine
The ultimate collection of over 2600 Grand Master vs Machine games from 1963 till 2007. With thanks to George Tsavdaris.
Testsets
Over 50 known testsets to improve your chess skills and/or to test your (favorite) chess program.
Programmer Section
Complete sources of various chess engines.
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