Welcome to the Beaches home page!
Beaches is a chess engine that is designed to work with
WinBoard protocol 2.
Beaches 2.26 is now available. Enhancements include: better move ordering, slightly different book format, improved time management, and a bugfix to pawn structure evaluation.
Download Beaches 2.26
Beaches 2.2 is now available. Enhancements include: fixed draw bug, pondering improved.
Download Beaches 2.2
More compact hash table
Corrections to obscure errors in the legal move generator
New “split” command
Beaches 1.52 is now available. Hashing mate scores has been fixed, so it
shouldn't draw in won endgames anymore.
Download Beaches 1.52
Beaches 1.5 is now available. Enhancements include: opening book, window
search, and perff (perft to file).
Download Beaches 1.5
Download Beaches 1.1
