Roland Chastain

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Roland Chastain,
a French computer chess programmer, and author a various open source chess engines and utilities, and the Eschecs GUI - most programs and engines written in Pascal. He further retouched some engines, hosting fixes and ports as open source on GitHub and GitLab, along with his own programs.

Chess Engines

Engine	Protocol	Variants	Language	GitHub	Origin
Moustique	UCI		Pascal	Moustique	JS Schach by Jürgen Schlottke
Alouette	UCI	Chess960	Object Pascal	Alouette
Luciole	UCI	Chess960	Lua	Luciole
Durandal	UCI	Chess960, Capablanca Chess	Pascal	Durandal

Retouched

Engine	Author	Language	GitHub/GitLab
Mater	Valentin Albillo	Pascal	Mater
CookieCat	Steven Edwards	Free Pascal	CookieCat
Critter	Richard Vida	Free Pascal	Open Critter
Hopeless	Pawel Koziol	Free Pascal / Lazarus	Hopeless Lazarus
Minimax II	Dieter Steinwender, Chrilly Donninger	Basic	CCC
Sam	Jonathan Kreuzer	C++	CCC
Sachy	Martin Macok	C	sachy

GUI and Utilities

Name	Type	Language	GitHub
Eschecs	GUI	Pascal	Eschecs
Chess-Image	Utility	Lazarus	Chess-Image
Substitute	Utility	Pascal	Substitute

Forum Posts

2018

• Author of Fritz 1.0 graphics by Roland Chastain, CCC, March 30, 2018
• Eschecs, a simple GUI written in Pascal by Roland Chastain, CCC, October 25, 2018

2019

• Moustique 0.2 by Roland Chastain, CCC, February 26, 2019
• Alouette 0.0.1 by Roland Chastain, CCC, March 28, 2019
• Luciole (UCI engine written in Lua) by Roland Chastain, CCC, May 13, 2019
• Method to interpret the third field of a FEN string in a program playing FRC by Roland Chastain, CCC, May 16, 2019
• Lua script to run Cute Chess CLI under Windows by Roland Chastain, CCC, May 29, 2019
• Looking for R. Scharnagl FEN editor by Roland Chastain, CCC, May 29, 2019
• Explanation of the Cute Chess message 'connection stalls' by Roland Chastain, CCC, June 13, 2019
• Ideas for an engine playing Capablanca chess by Roland Chastain, Winboard Forum, June 24, 2019
• Pascal code to read a Polyglot book by Roland Chastain, CCC, December 23, 2019

2020 ...

• Alouette 0.1.0 by Roland Chastain, CCC, January 21, 2020
• A command line tool to make a picture of a chess position by Roland Chastain, CCC, January 31, 2020
• CookieCat retouched by Roland Chastain, CCC, February 06, 2020
• Clericus/Hopeless ported to Lazarus by Roland Chastain, CCC, August 01, 2020
• Substitute (an application of the same kind as InBetween) by Roland Chastain, CCC, September 01, 2020
• Another XBoard engine derived from Minimax Basic by Roland Chastain, CCC, October 18, 2020
• Sam retouched for CuteChess by Roland Chastain, CCC, October 19, 2020
• Sachy by Martin Macok retouched for CuteChess by Roland Chastain, CCC, October 23, 2020
• OpenCritter compiled for Linux with Free Pascal by Roland Chastain, CCC, November 17, 2020

External Links

• rchastain (Roland Chastain) · GitHub
• Roland Chastain · GitLab

References

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