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'''Roland Chastain''',<br/>
a French computer chess programmer, and author a various [[:Category:Open Source|open source chess engines]] and [[Utilities|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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub GitHub] <ref>[https://github.com/rchastain rchastain (Roland Chastain) · GitHub]</ref>
and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitLab GitLab], along with his own programs.
=Chess Engines=
{| class="wikitable"
! Engine
! Protocol
! Variants
! Language
! GitHub
! Origin
|-
| [[Moustique]]
| [[UCI]]
|
| [[Pascal]]
| [https://github.com/rchastain/moustique Moustique]
| [[Schachspiel]] by [[Jürgen Schlottke]]
|-
| [[Alouette]]
| UCI
| [[Chess960]]
| [[Pascal#Object|Object Pascal]]
| [https://github.com/rchastain/alouette Alouette]
|
|-
| [[Luciole]]
| UCI
| Chess960
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language) Lua]
| [https://github.com/rchastain/luciole Luciole]
|
|-
| [[Durandal]]
| UCI
| Chess960, [[Capablanca Chess]]
| [[Pascal]]
| [https://github.com/rchastain/durandal Durandal]
|}
=Retouched=
{| class="wikitable"
! Engine
! Author
! Language
! GitHub/GitLab
|-
| [[Mater (Albillo)|Mater]]
| [[Valentin Albillo]]
| [[Pascal]]
| [https://github.com/rchastain/mater Mater]
|-
| [[CookieCat]]
| [[Steven Edwards]]
| [[Pascal#FreePascal|Free Pascal]]
| [https://github.com/rchastain/cookiecat CookieCat]
|-
| [[Hopeless]]
| [[Pawel Koziol]]
| Free Pascal / [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_(IDE) Lazarus]
| [https://gitlab.com/rchastain/hopeless-lazarus Hopeless Lazarus]
|-
| [[Minimax (program)|Minimax II]]
| [[Dieter Steinwender]], [[Chrilly Donninger]]
| [[Basic]]
| <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=75426 Another XBoard engine derived from Minimax Basic] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], October 18, 2020</ref>
|}
=[[GUI]] and [[Utilities]]=
{| class="wikitable"
! Name
! Type
! Language
! GitHub
|-
| [[Eschecs]]
| [[GUI]]
| [[Pascal]]
| [https://github.com/rchastain/eschecs Eschecs]
|-
| Chess-Image
| [[Utilities|Utility]]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_(IDE) Lazarus]
| [https://github.com/rchastain/chess-image Chess-Image]
|-
| [[Substitute]]
| [[Utilities|Utility]]
| [[Pascal]]
| [https://github.com/rchastain/substitute Substitute]
|}
=Forum Posts=
==2018==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=66968 Author of Fritz 1.0 graphics] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], March 30, 2018
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=68726 Eschecs, a simple GUI written in Pascal] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], October 25, 2018
==2019==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=69754&start=29 Moustique 0.2] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], February 26, 2019
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=70347 Alouette 0.0.1] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], March 28, 2019
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=70736 Luciole (UCI engine written in Lua)] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], May 13, 2019
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=70757 Method to interpret the third field of a FEN string in a program playing FRC] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], May 16, 2019
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=70736 Lua script to run Cute Chess CLI under Windows] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], May 29, 2019
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=70853 Looking for R. Scharnagl FEN editor] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], May 29, 2019
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=71007 Explanation of the Cute Chess message 'connection stalls'] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], June 13, 2019
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=54425 Ideas for an engine playing Capablanca chess] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], June 24, 2019
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=72631 Pascal code to read a Polyglot book] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], December 23, 2019
==2020 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=72613&start=51 Alouette 0.1.0] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], January 21, 2020
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=72960 A command line tool to make a picture of a chess position] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], January 31, 2020
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=73005 CookieCat retouched] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], February 06, 2020
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=74648 Clericus/Hopeless ported to Lazarus] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], August 01, 2020
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=74959 Substitute (an application of the same kind as InBetween)] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], September 01, 2020
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=75426 Another XBoard engine derived from Minimax Basic] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], October 18, 2020
=External Links=
* [https://github.com/rchastain rchastain (Roland Chastain) · GitHub]
* [https://gitlab.com/rchastain Roland Chastain · GitLab]
=References=
<references />
'''[[People|Up one level]]'''
[[Category:Chess Programmer|Chastain]]
'''Roland Chastain''',<br/>
a French computer chess programmer, and author a various [[:Category:Open Source|open source chess engines]] and [[Utilities|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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub GitHub] <ref>[https://github.com/rchastain rchastain (Roland Chastain) · GitHub]</ref>
and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitLab GitLab], along with his own programs.
=Chess Engines=
{| class="wikitable"
! Engine
! Protocol
! Variants
! Language
! GitHub
! Origin
|-
| [[Moustique]]
| [[UCI]]
|
| [[Pascal]]
| [https://github.com/rchastain/moustique Moustique]
| [[Schachspiel]] by [[Jürgen Schlottke]]
|-
| [[Alouette]]
| UCI
| [[Chess960]]
| [[Pascal#Object|Object Pascal]]
| [https://github.com/rchastain/alouette Alouette]
|
|-
| [[Luciole]]
| UCI
| Chess960
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language) Lua]
| [https://github.com/rchastain/luciole Luciole]
|
|-
| [[Durandal]]
| UCI
| Chess960, [[Capablanca Chess]]
| [[Pascal]]
| [https://github.com/rchastain/durandal Durandal]
|}
=Retouched=
{| class="wikitable"
! Engine
! Author
! Language
! GitHub/GitLab
|-
| [[Mater (Albillo)|Mater]]
| [[Valentin Albillo]]
| [[Pascal]]
| [https://github.com/rchastain/mater Mater]
|-
| [[CookieCat]]
| [[Steven Edwards]]
| [[Pascal#FreePascal|Free Pascal]]
| [https://github.com/rchastain/cookiecat CookieCat]
|-
| [[Hopeless]]
| [[Pawel Koziol]]
| Free Pascal / [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_(IDE) Lazarus]
| [https://gitlab.com/rchastain/hopeless-lazarus Hopeless Lazarus]
|-
| [[Minimax (program)|Minimax II]]
| [[Dieter Steinwender]], [[Chrilly Donninger]]
| [[Basic]]
| <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=75426 Another XBoard engine derived from Minimax Basic] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], October 18, 2020</ref>
|}
=[[GUI]] and [[Utilities]]=
{| class="wikitable"
! Name
! Type
! Language
! GitHub
|-
| [[Eschecs]]
| [[GUI]]
| [[Pascal]]
| [https://github.com/rchastain/eschecs Eschecs]
|-
| Chess-Image
| [[Utilities|Utility]]
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_(IDE) Lazarus]
| [https://github.com/rchastain/chess-image Chess-Image]
|-
| [[Substitute]]
| [[Utilities|Utility]]
| [[Pascal]]
| [https://github.com/rchastain/substitute Substitute]
|}
=Forum Posts=
==2018==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=66968 Author of Fritz 1.0 graphics] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], March 30, 2018
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=68726 Eschecs, a simple GUI written in Pascal] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], October 25, 2018
==2019==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=69754&start=29 Moustique 0.2] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], February 26, 2019
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=70347 Alouette 0.0.1] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], March 28, 2019
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=70736 Luciole (UCI engine written in Lua)] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], May 13, 2019
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=70757 Method to interpret the third field of a FEN string in a program playing FRC] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], May 16, 2019
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=70736 Lua script to run Cute Chess CLI under Windows] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], May 29, 2019
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=70853 Looking for R. Scharnagl FEN editor] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], May 29, 2019
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=71007 Explanation of the Cute Chess message 'connection stalls'] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], June 13, 2019
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=54425 Ideas for an engine playing Capablanca chess] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], June 24, 2019
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=72631 Pascal code to read a Polyglot book] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], December 23, 2019
==2020 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=72613&start=51 Alouette 0.1.0] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], January 21, 2020
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=72960 A command line tool to make a picture of a chess position] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], January 31, 2020
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=73005 CookieCat retouched] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], February 06, 2020
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=74648 Clericus/Hopeless ported to Lazarus] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], August 01, 2020
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=74959 Substitute (an application of the same kind as InBetween)] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], September 01, 2020
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=75426 Another XBoard engine derived from Minimax Basic] by [[Roland Chastain]], [[CCC]], October 18, 2020
=External Links=
* [https://github.com/rchastain rchastain (Roland Chastain) · GitHub]
* [https://gitlab.com/rchastain Roland Chastain · GitLab]
=References=
<references />
'''[[People|Up one level]]'''
[[Category:Chess Programmer|Chastain]]
