Popeye (chess)

Popeye (chess)

Popeye is a freely available chess problem solving software that specializes in fairy chess and heterodox genres.

Popeye has no graphical interface by itself but it can be used in DOS, Windows, Linux, Mac OS and many other OS since it comes with source code in C which can be compiled. Popeye is one of the most complete solving programs: it knows about direct mates, helpmates and selfmates but also problems with fairy pieces and different fairy conditions. It knows how to combine most of these variants, e.g., it can solve Circe helpmates with grasshopers. It can list tries and set play, which makes it invaluable for checking composed problems.

The original author of Popeye was Philippe Schnoebelen, who wrote it in Pascal under MS-DOS around 1983-84. From the beginning, the aim was to solve and especially check chess problems before they were published in magazines. The original Pascal code was later donated to new developers, in the spirit of the free software movement, so that it could be converted to C, further developed, and maintained. The main contributors were Elmar Bartel, Norbert Geissler, Thomas Maeder, Torsten Linss, Stefan Hoening, Stefan Brunzen, Harald Denker, Thomas Bark and Stephen Emmerson.

There are many Windows interfaces for Popeye.

Windows interfaces

EGChessPro

EGChessPro is freeware by Salvador Bosch Pérez (DOS/Windows). EGChessPro work like interface for the Crafty, Popeye or Chest using the right syntax. It does not work with Windows NT, 2000 or XP.

Web page: http://egchesspro.4t.com/

Fancy

Fancy is shareware written by Marek Kwiatkowski. It is basically Windows interface for Popeye, it can read his own file format but also Problemiste (PBM) format. It comes with FancyPub for publication problem, uses 1echess.ttf True Type font made by Christian Poisson.

Web page: http://www.free.of.pl/c/ccintorun/g/fancy.htm

Popeye Windows Shell

Popeye Windows Shell is basically freeware Windows interface for Popeye written by Thomas Bark, it has only German interface.

Web page: http://www.blanco-y-negro.de/

Windows Popeye Shell

Popeye Windows Shell is freeware Windows interface for Popeye written by Christian Mathes, it has only German interface.

Web page: http://www.christian-mathes.de

See also

* Software for handling chess problems

External links

* https://sourceforge.net/projects/popeye-chess
* http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stephen.emmerson/popeye


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