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Subject: Re: Strongest free chess program?

Author: Kirill Kryukov

Date: 08:10:51 11/10/05

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On November 10, 2005 at 10:47:27, George Speight wrote:

>On November 10, 2005 at 10:37:08, Wolfgang Battig wrote:
>
>>On November 10, 2005 at 10:30:06, Kenneth Nolan wrote:
>>
>>>I would like to buy a strong chess engine. Unfortunately I have no means of
>>>purchasing anything over the Internet, at least for a couple of months.
>>>
>>>I would like a recommendation for a free chess engine I can use until I can buy
>>>a commercial one. The main feature I am looking for is sheer playing strength
>>>(over long time controls).
>>>
>>>I would greatly appreciate any help you could give me.
>>
>>at the moment the strongest free chess programm is Toga II 1.0 by Thomas Gaksch
>>and Fabien Letouzey which you can download under
>>http://www.uciengines.de/UCI-Engines/TogaII/togaii.html
>>
>>It is an UCI-Engine and can be used e.g. under Arena 1.1 (download for free at
>>www.playwitharena.com)
>>
>>Wolfgang
>Fruit 2.1 and List 512 would also be good. they can be found at same location,
>or at wbec-ridderkerk.nl  With those 3 you may not ever care about commercial
>ones. Especially if your interest is playing them yourself. All 3 will also work
>in chessbase.  Regards, George

Also "Spike 1.0a Mainz" is one of the strongest free engines. Better than List
5.12, but weaker than Fruit 2.1, in our tests
(http://kd.lab.nig.ac.jp/chess/cegt/rating-table-all-300.shtml).

Best,
Kirill




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