Author: George Speight
Date: 08:31:31 11/10/05
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On November 10, 2005 at 11:10:51, Kirill Kryukov wrote: >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 Oops! forgot about Spike. You are correct. Sorry. George
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