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Wilhelm Steinitz^[1]

Wilhelm,
a chess program byRafael B. Andrist with an ownGUI running underWindows with focus onendgame research. The chess engine is witten inC with some smallx86Assembly routines, the GUI written inVisual Basic^[2]. Wilhelm knows aboutco-ordinate squares inpawn endgames with completly blocked pawns, and solves theLasker-Reichhelm Position (Fine #70) instantly^[3]. It supports 5 and 6 menNalimov Tablebases and features specialEGTB analysis modes^[4]. Wilhelm was used to model fallible endgame play^[5] as elaborated by its author andGuy Haworth. Experiments agree well with aMarkov Model theory^[6].

Screen Shot

WilhelmGUI^[7]

See also

• Steinitz

Publications

• Guy Haworth (2003).Reference Fallible Endgame Play.ICGA Journal, Vol. 26, No. 2
• Guy Haworth,Rafael B. Andrist (2003).Model Endgame Analysis.Advances in Computer Games 10
• Rafael B. Andrist,Guy Haworth (2005).Deeper model endgame analysis.Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 349, No. 2

Forum Posts

• chess program "Wilhelm" released byRafael B. Andrist,CCC, August 19, 2001
• Program "Wilhelm" updated byRafael B. Andrist,CCC, November 11, 2001
• Wilhelm 1.43 available - support of new EGTB format byRafael B. Andrist,CCC, February 10, 2003
• new "Wilhelm", access to 42p EGTB byRafael B. Andrist,CCC, September 30, 2003
• Bug/glitch in Nalimov Code (and in Wilhelm)? byDieter Bürßner,CCC, May 09, 2004
• WILHELM is the testing tool ... byGuy Haworth,CCC, July 23, 2004
• Re: Freezer vs. Wilhelm byEiko Bleicher,CCC, May 18, 2005 »Freezer
• Wilhelm update byRafael B. Andrist,CCRL Discussion Board, August 23, 2006
• Wilhelm 1.50 in action byRuxy Sylwyka,CCC, March 20, 2012
• Wilhelm by silversurfer,Immortal Chess Forum, March 20, 2012

External Links

Chess Program

• Software for solving chess problems / puzzles / endgame studies fromRon Murawski'sComputer-Chess Wiki (Wilhelm download)

Misc

• Wilhelm from Wikipedia
• Wilhelm (name) from Wikipedia
• Wilhelm Steinitz from Wikipedia
• A Wilhelm Scream -The King is Dead (2005),YouTube Video

References

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