Screamer 1 Screen 1
- Screamer Chess Home Page Screamer and Screamer II (Wayback Machine, December 12, 2001)↩︎
Screamer, (Screamer Chess)
a chess program for the Macintosh by William Bryant, written in C++ using the CodeWarrior IDE, supporting PowerPC and early versions prior to build 57, 680x0 processors. Screamer comes with an own GUI based on the PowerPlant toolkit, an own opening book, and supports the 3-man, 4-man, and 5-man Nalimov tablebases, and a variable transposition table size. The program applies negamax alpha-beta improved by PVS, aspiration windows inside an iterative deepening framework, and recursive null move pruning 1.
Forum Posts
1998 ...
- MacTSCP (beta) now available by William Bryant, rgcc, December 04, 1998 » TSCP
- Re: Macintosh Chess Software links page by William Bryant, rgcc, June 12, 1999
2000
- Screamer Chess (Mac) now has a homepage by William Bryant, CCC, January 29, 2000
- Ann: Minor Screamer Update by William Bryant, CCC, February 06, 2000
- Screamer Web Site by William Bryant, CCC, February 12, 2000
- Does your program understand castling/en passant rights on 3x repetition by Richard A. Fowell, CCC, February 27, 2000 » Castling Rights, En passant, Repetitions
- Announce: Screamer (build 50) now on web page by William Bryant, CCC, April 13, 2000
- Announce: Screamer Build 55 by William Bryant, CCC, November 25, 2000
2001 ...
- Screamer Chess Build 57 by Info-Mac, March 26, 2001
- Screamer by William Bryant, CCC, November 30, 2001
- Screamer II (build 03) available for Macintosh by William Bryant, CCC, January 23, 2002
External Links
Chess Engine
- Screamer Chess Home Page New Release: April 16, 2000, Build 51 (Wayback Machine, April 24, 2000)
- Screamer Chess Home Page New Release: August 12, 2000, Build 54 (Wayback Machine, August 15, 2000)
- Screamer Chess Home Page New Release: November 2000, Build 55 (Wayback Machine, February 02, 2001)
- Screamer Chess Home Page Screamer and Screamer II (screamer-chess-57.hqx) (Wayback Machine, December 12, 2001)
- Screamer Readme File