As of today, it does not support 64bit architectures, but the ChessGenius GUI works absolutely fine on 64bit platforms. The only limitation here is that, the Genius 7 Engine works on 32bit platform only. Actually the GUI is written for the famous Genius engine - 10 times World Computer and/or Microcomputer Chess Champion, 6 of which were consecutive. ChessGenius GUI has its own native engine that is the Genius 7 engine - a very strong, fast and powerful chess playing system and a great analysing tool. The interface has sophisticated database functions and game/database analysing options. Most of the GUIs are able to work with databases and different types of levels (time controls) which makes the engine and the GUI itself a complete graphical and user friendly chess software.ĬhessGenius Classic 7 is such an entirely complete chess program which combines all the features of today's modern chess software.ĬhessGenius Classic offers a compact, powerful, fast and very lightweight graphical user interface for loading the current top chess engines, playing them or analysing with them chess games. There are such protocols and the two most common are WinBoard (a Windows Operationg System version based on the XBoard protocol for Unix/Linux systems) by Tim Mann and the Universal Chess Interface (UCI) protocol by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, author of the successful Shredder series of chess programs for different hardware platforms (like the Genius series for different handheld devices by Richard Lang) and Rudolf Huber, author of the famous SOS chess engine. The engines must be connected to these GUIs via some comunnication protocols.

To be more user friendly they need other programs, called graphical user interfaces (GUI) that provide the graphical front end for chess engines. Every engine can be configured using the command prompt when started or by a configuration file of type *.ini, *.cfg, *.rc or other, depending on the engine specifications found in its documentation if provided. Chess engines are stand alone applications that may work in a console mode (text based version if implemented) using input commands entered by the keyboard. The engine is the brain of the chess program or the utility that calculates, evaluates the position, searches and moves the pieces. Loading the engine into ChessGenius graphical front end. Configuring WinBoard Converter to PolyGlot.

This tutorial is based on an article about ChessGenius and ChessGenius Extras by PC Solutions and on a text found in the WinBoard Converter Read Me file. ChessGenius for Desktop PC's - Adding chess engines in the ChessGenius GUIĪ quick tutorial about how to add and use modern and strong chess engines in the ChessGenius 7 graphical user interface (GUI)

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