Chess engine download website

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While looking for a downloadable version of Crafty the other day, I got
slightly annoyed because I couldn't find it.

Would anybody be interested in helping me build a website as a download
repository for chess engines? - i.e. in the spirit of download.com,
hotscripts and sourceforge - but only for chess engines. Maybe have a
forum for discussion of their installation, configuration, results
etc...

Anybody interested ?

(to qualify that this isn't a half arsed suggestion, I am a
professional software developer in the daytime, so could do the
technical side standing on my head).

Regards,

Jonathan

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Jonathan,

You just made all us professional software developers look like dunces. It
took me all of 10 seconds to type in "Crafty Chess" in Google and find a
site where I could download it (http://crafty-chess.com/). I'm sure there
are many more.


"jonathan.beckett" <jonathan.beckett@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1111051628.622857.201940@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> While looking for a downloadable version of Crafty the other day, I got
> slightly annoyed because I couldn't find it.
>
> Would anybody be interested in helping me build a website as a download
> repository for chess engines? - i.e. in the spirit of download.com,
> hotscripts and sourceforge - but only for chess engines. Maybe have a
> forum for discussion of their installation, configuration, results
> etc...
>
> Anybody interested ?
>
> (to qualify that this isn't a half arsed suggestion, I am a
> professional software developer in the daytime, so could do the
> technical side standing on my head).
>
> Regards,
>
> Jonathan
>

Archived from groups: rec.games.chess.computer (More info?)

jonathan.beckett wrote:
> While looking for a downloadable version of Crafty the other day, I got
> slightly annoyed because I couldn't find it.
>
> Would anybody be interested in helping me build a website as a download
> repository for chess engines? - i.e. in the spirit of download.com,
> hotscripts and sourceforge - but only for chess engines. Maybe have a
> forum for discussion of their installation, configuration, results
> etc...
>
> Anybody interested ?
>
> (to qualify that this isn't a half arsed suggestion, I am a
> professional software developer in the daytime, so could do the
> technical side standing on my head).
>
> Regards,
>
> Jonathan
>
There are already a lot of sites. One with high activity is
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/ (select "News page" in the menu).

--
Peter Pein
Berlin