Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:03:04 11/10/05
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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. For contests, get Arena (if you have not done so already): http://www.playwitharena.com/ For internet play, get Winboard (if you have not done so already): http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html As far as engines, go, the more the merrier. To find out how strong they are, look here: http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/ and click on rating list. Look here: http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/rangliste.html And here: http://www.geocities.com/lyapko/ratba30.htm Here are the pro engines power ratings: http://web.telia.com/~u85924109/ssdf/list.htm Many strong professional engines are very inexpensive. For a free chess database, both of these are very good: http://scid.sourceforge.net/ http://jose-chess.sourceforge.net/ My recommendations for professional products are: Database (must have) -- ChessAssistant Engines (must have) -- Fruit, Shredder Engines (nice to have) -- ChessMaster, Ktulu, Gandalf, Ruffian, ChessTiger[*], DeepSjeng, Rebel/Prodeo [*] Unfortunately, ChessTiger is not UCI or Winboard, so I can only really use it in ChessAssistant. I have other versions, but I don't end up using them. Avoid: Don't bother with MChess 7 -- it only works in its own special interface. The ChessBase engines also work only under the ChessBase interfaces and so are a pain in the behind to use in settings that I like. (I have all of these engines but play them only rarely).
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