Bringer
[ Gustave Doré - The Light Bringer Lucifer [1] Bringer (Der Bringer),
a chess program running under Windows developed by Gerrit Reubold, written in C++ using the Microsoft Foundation Classes [2]. Bringer brings its own GUI, and further supports the WinBoard Protocol [3]. Bringer applies check and recapture extensions, and further extends to detect perpetual checks, on pushing passers to 6th or 7th rank, if there is only one move, and on severe threats. It also did some negative extension, aka pruning and razoring [4], and since Bringer 1.8 performs smart exchange evaluation to avoid calculating obviously bad moves near the tips.
Tournament Play
Bringer played the BELCT 2001 over the board, operated by opening book author Peter Berger, and further five early CCT Tournaments, the CCT1, CCT3, CCT4, CCT5, and finally the CCT6.
Forum Posts
1999
- new program for download by Gerrit Reubold, CCC, May 15, 1999
- new version of chessprogram “Bringer 1.3” for free download by Gerrit Reubold, CCC, June 04, 1999
- Free chessprogram “Bringer 1.3”, fixed version ready for download by Gerrit Reubold, CCC, June 07, 1999
- Bringer 1,5 by Fernando Villegas, CCC, August 08, 1999
2000 …
- New version of chess program Bringer by Gerrit Reubold, CCC, February 08, 2000
- Chess program Bringer 1.8 released by Gerrit Reubold, CCC, April 10, 2001
- Der Bringer 1.8 English User’s Guide by Jim Kearman, CCC, April 17, 2001
- Update to the Bringer homepage by Gerrit Reubold, CCC, April 18, 2001
- CCT3 - nice first day for Bringer by Peter Kappler, CCC, May 26, 2001
- CCT-3 - An operator report - Der Bringer by Peter Berger, CCC, May 28, 2001
- Bringer 1,9 ?? by Fernando Villegas, CCC, November 29, 2001
- Chess engine Bringer 1.9 released by Gerrit Reubold, CCC, December 26, 2001
- cct4/Part 1 : Operator report for Bringer by Peter Berger, CCC, January 21, 2002
- CCT4 - Part 2 : Operator report for Bringer by Peter Berger, CCC, January 31, 2002
- cct5 - the Bringer report by Peter Berger, CCC, January 20, 2003
- Der Bringer. Where is it on my disk? by S.Taylor, CCC, July 09, 2009
2010 …
- Need assistance installing Der Bringer 1.9 in Shredder GUI by Ted Summers, CCC, April 25, 2018
- DOSBox Windows 95 for Chess by The Spacious Mind, HIARCS Forum, March 09, 2019
- Re: Oldies auf modernem PC installieren: Fragen über Fragen #59 by The Spacious Mind, Schachcomputer.info, March 09, 2019
External Links
Bringer GUI [5] Chess Engine
Der Bringer 1.8 User’s Guide by Jim Kearman
- Engine Download List from Ron Murawski’s Computer-Chess Wiki
- Server Ratings Stats - ICC.Profile - BringerXX
- Schachclub Leinzell - Schach + PC - Freeware, Seite 1 by Peter Schreiner (German)
Misc
Bringer – Wiktionary (German)
- Simon Fitzpatrick - Eris, the Bringer of Chaos, The Dwarf Planets Suite, 2018 , YouTube Video
References
- ↑ Gustave Doré’s illustration for John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Book III - The Light Bringer Lucifer, 1866, Wikimedia Commons
- ↑ Free chessprogram “Bringer 1.3”, fixed version ready for download by Gerrit Reubold, CCC, June 07, 1999
- ↑ Dead Engine List from Computer-Chess Wiki by Ron Murawski
- ↑ Re: The Scalable Search Test / Results of “Der Bringer” by Gerrit Reubold, CCC, June 18, 2000
- ↑ Free Chess Software - Program by Jim Kearman