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'''PolyGlot''',<br/>
an adapter <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapter_pattern Adapter pattern from Wikipedia]</ref> that allows [[UCI]] engines to use interfaces and [[GUI|GUIs]] supporting the [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]], developed by [[Fabien Letouzey]] and modified by [[Fonzy Bluemers]] <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150213221910/http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/info.htm Information and rules to participate] from [[WBEC|WBEC Ridderkerk]] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive Internet Archive])</ref>. Polyglot is open source, licensed under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GPL]], and is able to run on various operating systems, which allows to run UCI engines not only under [[Windows]] with its native chess GUIs, but also under [[Linux]] and [[Mac OS]] using [[XBoard]]. PolyGlot 1.4 provides a simplistic [[Opening Book|opening book]] implementation <ref>[http://hardy.uhasselt.be/Toga/book_format.html Polyglot book format] by [[Michel Van den Bergh]]</ref>, referred as '''bin'''-opening book format.
=Retirement=
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=71311 Bin book adapter?] by Ovyron, [[CCC]], July 18, 2019 » [[CFish]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=72432 Polyglot FRC/960 Opening Book] by [[Dennis Sceviour]], [[CCC]], November 27, 2019 » [[Opening Book]], [[Chess960]]
==2020 ...==
'''2022 ...'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=80901 Tool for Polyglot opening books?] by [[PeterO]], [[CCC]], PeterO 26, 2022 » [[Opening Book]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=80944 CLI tool for composing polyglot book from PGN] by [[Arturs Priede]], [[CCC]], November 02, 2022 » [[Opening Book]]
=External Links=
==Chess adapter==
* [http://hgm.nubati.net/book_format.html Polyglot book format] by [[Harm Geert Muller]]
* [http://hgm.nubati.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=polyglot.git;a=summary hgm.nubati.net Git - polyglot.git] hosted by [[Harm Geert Muller]]
* [https://github.com/sshivaji/polyglot GitHub - sshivaji/polyglot: Polyglot chess opening book program] hosted by [[Shivkumar Shivaji]]
* [https://python-chess.readthedocs.io/en/latest/polyglot.html Polyglot opening book reading] by [[Niklas Fiekas]] » [[python-chess]]
* [https://sites.google.com/site/hispanicchessengines/polyglot PolyGlot - Hispanic Chess Engines]
