PolyGlot

an adapter that allows UCI engines to use interfaces and GUIs supporting the Chess Engine Communication Protocol, developed by Fabien Letouzey and modified by Fonzy Bluemers. Polyglot is open source, licensed under the GPL, and is able to run on various operating systems, which allows to run UCI engines not only under Windows with its native chess GUIs, but also under Linux and Mac OS using XBoard. PolyGlot 1.4 provides a simplistic opening book implementation, referred as **bin**-opening book format.
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As far as XBoard/WinBoard is concerned since 2018, Polyglot is scheduled for retirement. The latest beta package of WinBoard did not contain any Polyglot, but relied on UCI2WB instead, which is variant agnostic, and supports all UCI dialects (USI, UCCI, UCI-Cyclone, Arena960). Polyglot is useless for anything other than ordinary Chess. toc =See also=
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 * Chess Engine Communication Protocol
 * Opening Book
 * Protocols
 * UCI
 * UCI2WB
 * Vice PolyGlot-Videos
 * WinBoard
 * XBoard

=Forum Posts=

2004

 * [|UCI2WB "replacement" project news] by Fabien Letouzey, Winboard Forum, March 23, 2004
 * [|Wanted: tester for new UCI adapter (UCI w/ WinBoard)] by Fabien Letouzey, Winboard Forum, March 26, 2004
 * [|PolyGlot] by Salvo Spitaleri, Winboard Forum, April 01, 2004
 * [|Experimental PolyGlot] by Fabien Letouzey, Winboard Forum, April 06, 2004
 * [|minor change in PolyGlot] by Fabien Letouzey, Winboard Forum, April 08, 2004
 * [|PolyGlot and pondering] by Fabien Letouzey, Winboard Forum, April 13, 2004 » Pondering
 * [|What is Polyglot in computer chess??] by Jouni Uski, CCC, April 14, 2004
 * [|New PolyGlot] by Fabien Letouzey, Winboard Forum, April 15, 2004
 * [|Polyglot queries...] by Roger Brown, Winboard Forum, April 18, 2004
 * [|PolyGlot news] by Fabien Letouzey, Winboard Forum, April 19, 2004
 * [|New PolyGlot] by Fabien Letouzey, Winboard Forum, April 21, 2004
 * [|New PolyGlot] by Fabien Letouzey, Winboard Forum, April 27, 2004
 * [|PolyGlot 1.0] by Fabien Letouzey, Winboard Forum, April 30, 2004
 * [|New: PolyGlot 1.0 (UCI adapter)] by Fabien Letouzey, CCC, May 04, 2004
 * [|To Roger o Volker, about Polyglot] by Carlos Pesce, Winboard Forum, May 10, 2004
 * [|PolyGlot glitch] by Fabien Letouzey, Winboard Forum, June 08 2004
 * [|Safe I/O] by Fabien Letouzey, Winboard Forum, December 10, 2004

2005 ...

 * [|PolyGlot 1.2 (multi-platform UCI adapter) available] by Fabien Letouzey, CCC, January 30, 2005
 * [|Polyglot & log-file] by Stefan Knappe, Winboard Forum, February 10, 2005
 * [|PolyGlot 1.3 available (UCI adapter)] by Fabien Letouzey, CCC, June 04, 2005
 * [|A bug in Polyglot 1.3 ?] by Niyaz Khasanov, Winboard Forum, July 01, 2005
 * [|Input thread under polyglot] by Peter Fendrich, Winboard Forum, August 15, 2005
 * [|How to make book using polyglot?] by Russell, CCC, October 19, 2005
 * [|Unanswered polyglot questions] by Thomas Logan, CCC, October 20, 2005
 * [|Problem with PolyGlot 1.3] by Álvaro Begué, CCC, October 30, 2005
 * 2006**
 * [|Books for polyglot] by Carlos Pesce, Winboard Forum, January 01, 2006
 * [|Threading issue under Polyglot] by Nathan Thom, Winboard Forum, September 18, 2006 » Thread
 * 2007**
 * [|Question for Polyglot book experts] by Günther Simon, Winboard Forum, January 02, 2007
 * [|Polyglot books use with any UCI engine under CB GUI !] by Marc Lacrosse, CCC, October 28, 2007
 * 2008**
 * [|Polyglot 1.4w5] by Fonzy Bluemers, Winboard Forum, September 09, 2008
 * [|Polyglot glitch? (feature?)] by Günther Simon, Winboard Forum, November 14, 2008
 * [|Polyglot now supports the UCI protocol:-)] by Michel Van den Bergh, CCC, December 22, 2008 » UCI
 * 2009**
 * [|Polyglot 1.4w22] by Fonzy Bluemers, Winboard Forum, May 25, 2009

2010 ...

 * [|Polyglot : a small request] by Olivier Deville, Winboard Forum, October 01, 2010
 * [|Problem using XBoard + Polyglot + Zippy on FICS] by Ben-Hur Carlos Langoni, CCC, November 15, 2010 » XBoard, Free Internet Chess Server
 * [|New Polyglot and opening books] by Olivier Deville, Winboard Forum, December 29, 2010
 * [|polyglot compile instructions] by matematiko, Winboard Forum, April 16, 2011
 * [|polyglot en passant square] by Marco Belli, CCC, September 12, 2013 » En passant
 * [|CTG to polyglot format] by matematiko, Winboard Forum, October 23, 2013 » CTG
 * [| Polyglot 2.0.3 memory limit] by Juan Molina, CCC, December 12, 2014

2015 ...
> [|Re: Cannot download Polyglot or KingSlayer source code] by Harm Geert Muller, CCC, January 01, 2018 » UCI2WB
 * [|stockfish uci commands in polyglot] by mike schoonover, CCC, February 16, 2015
 * [|Winboard 4.8.0b and PolyGlot 2.0.3 adjudication issues] by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, February 22, 2015
 * [|Polyglot-format books: large boards] by Harm Geert Muller, CCC, March 04, 2015
 * 2016**
 * [|Polyglot and make-book] by Ed Schröder, CCC, February 26, 2016
 * [|all the old tools are vanishing...] by Jack Crawford, CCC, February 27, 2016
 * [|REBEL | ProDeo book available in Polyglot format] by Ed Schröder, CCC, March 05, 2016 » Rebel, Pro Deo
 * [|Polyglot 1.4 Update] by Michael B, CCC, March 13, 2016
 * [|icsdroneng and polyglot] by Alexandru Mosoi, CCC, March 11, 2016
 * [|opening book standards] by Jef Kaan, CCC, August 10, 2016
 * [|Opening book in bin-format] by Alexander Schmidt, CCC, August 17, 2016
 * [|Polyglot book learning] by Günther Simon, CCC, August 24, 2016 » Book Learning
 * [|Where can I find the current PolyGlot version?] by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, September 10, 2016
 * [|book .bin] by diego suarez, CCC, September 11, 2016
 * [|Polyglot dump-book problem/bug/limit] by Günther Simon, CCC, September 26, 2016
 * [|Polyglot pickBest] by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, December 29, 2016 » WinBoard
 * 2017**
 * [|How to Make a .BIN opening book (for non programmers?)] by Brendan J. Norman, CCC, April 03, 2017
 * [|How do you use .bin books?] by John Wentworth, CCC, June 21, 2017
 * [|Viewing a bin book file] by Giovanni Lavorgna, CCC, July 30, 2017
 * [|Cannot download Polyglot or KingSlayer source code] by Dean Menezes, CCC, December 31, 2017

=External Links=

Chess adapter
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 * [|hgm.nubati.net Git - polyglot.git] hosted by Harm Geert Muller
 * [|GitHub - sshivaji/polyglot: Polyglot chess opening book program] hosted by Shivkumar Shivaji
 * [|Polyglot 1.4w] by Fonzy Bluemers
 * [|Polyglot book format] by Michel Van den Bergh
 * [|Polyglot opening book reading] by Niklas Fiekas » python-chess
 * [|PolyGlot - Hispanic Chess Engines]
 * Create a Polyglot Chess Opening Book by Steve Maughan, [|YouTube] Video » Maverick, SCID, David J. Barnes, Ed Schröder

Misc
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 * [|polyglot - Wiktionary]
 * [|Polyglot (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Polyglotism from Wikipedia]
 * [|Polyglot (book) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Polyglot (computing) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Temur Kvitelashvili] - 21 guitars (1990), [|YouTube] Video

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