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Subject: Re: chess engines

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 21:47:36 11/03/05

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On November 04, 2005 at 00:32:04, Horst Biewald wrote:

>Good day Gentleman, my question concerns the loading of a particular engine,
>what exactly comes with it when you load an engine into a particular GUI?

There are many different types of chess engines.  The general categories are by
the following types:

1. Winboard/Xboard  (Most common, most are free -- a few professional versions)
2. UCI (Second most common, most are free -- many professional versions)
3. ChessBase (Many professional engines use this format)
4. MCI (an older professional version -- not used much amymore)
5. Proprietary (the old Rebel, Hiarcs, Mchess, and a few others use their own)

>Do they all come with their own set of instructions and their own opening book,
>or do they all use the same book but play a different middle and endgame?

They are different.

>Just curious on what makes them all so unique and possess different strengths.

What makes them unique is that different people write them.  Some write very
good algorithms with very few bugs.  These are the strongest engines.



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