Engine Chess

These chess programs are sold commercially. Most of these also include their own user interface.

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Deep Hiarcs 12 Multiprocessor Version
For nearly 20 years HIARCS has been among the very best chess programs in the world. Ever since its fi rst World Championship success in 1991 HIARCS has maintained its position as one of the world’s premier chess playing programs. As recently as December 2007 HIARCS further enhanced its reputation by winning the International Paderborn Computer Chess Championship in Germany ahead of a world class field.
Available from 28. March 2008

Hello All,

Hiarcs 12 will be released later this month by ChessBase and also direct as a UCI 

engine from Mark.All H11 customers will receive a discount if they buy the UCI engine

from www.Hiarcs.com - If you buy the CB version you will of course also get a serial

number for 1 years use of Playchess.com

Both versions will come with a brand new openings book.

As well as Hiarcs 12 you will also receive the engine that won in Paderborn at the end

of 2007 - so you will get 2 engines to test and have fun with. Keep an eye on this 

thread for more details which I will also update with any news 

http://www.hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1006

If you bought Hiarcs 11 you will soon receive an email from Mark with details of 

discounts available.

Best Wishes,

Harvey

HIARCS 12
Chess Playing Software
For nearly 20 years HIARCS has been among the very best chess programs in the world. Ever since its first World Championship success in 1991 HIARCS has maintained its position as one of the world’s premier chess playing programs.

As recently as December 2007 HIARCS further enhanced its reputation by winning the International Paderborn Computer Chess Championship in Germany ahead of a world class field. HIARCS is famous for its human-like playing style and its ability to come up with the unexpected. Recent HIARCS versions are renowned for sharp attacking chess and a never-say-die attitude to their play.

In HIARCS 12 this playing style has been positively enhanced through a new deeper search and better evaluation of dynamic possibilities. It is capable of building deep attacking positions against the enemy King and executing exciting mating attacks. This new approach enables HIARCS to play interesting, distinctive aggressive chess while being sensitive to the needs of the position. This has improved HIARCS in all phases of the game, and even in quieter positions HIARCS 12 is able to be more selective about the variations it explores to achieve a better understanding than previous versions leading to much stronger play.

As an analysis partner HIARCS is second to none with its ability to learn from the positions it analyses and plays. This is an essential feature for all chess players interested in analyzing games, studies, positions and particularly the opening as it guides HIARCS into a greater understanding of chess positions and their possibilities than ever before.

For many years top chess players have used HIARCS as an important analysis partner for this very reason. This combination of strength, playing style and learning makes HIARCS 12 ideal for all players looking for an intelligent chess partner that learns and improves with you.

A new super strong HIARCS 12 openings book is also included which has been dramatically enhanced with the latest cutting edge chess theory and a wealth of novelties to provide a huge repertoire of finely tuned variations.

For HIARCS fans and engine collectors the Championship winning HIARCS Paderborn 2007 engine is also included.

This is what HIARCS 12 Offers:

• Chess engine HIARCS 12 by Mark Uniacke
• HIARCS 12 opening book by Eric Hallsworth
• Fritz11 user surface with many training functions
• Access to the ChessBase internet chess server playchess.com (free for 12 months)
• Database with 1,000,000 games

HIARCS 12 System Requirments:
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Minimum: Pentium 300 MHz, 64 MB RAM, Windows Vista or XP (SP 2), DVD ROM drive, Windows Media Player 9.
Recommended: Pentium IV 2.2 GHz or higher, 256 MB RAM, Windows Vista, GeForce5 or compatible graphics card with 64 MB RAM or higher, 100% DirectX compatible sound card, Windows Media Player 9, DVD ROM drive.
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www.Hiarcs.com

 http://www.chessgenius.com/

Richard Lang's ChessGenius programs have a long history of being the strongest in the world. They have won Computer Chess World Championships 10 times.

Perhaps ChessGenius's greatest achievement came in August 1994 when it shocked the Chess World and became the first program ever to beat a World Champion (Gary Kasparov) at a non-blitz time level. ChessGenius also knocked GM Nikolic out of the same tournament, achieving an astounding 2795 ELO rating  - all on a mere 100 Mhz Pentium PC!

 http://chessmaster.us.ubi.com/xi/index.php

 http://www.lokasoft.nl/chess_tiger_2007

Jeroen Noomen after the 9th WCCC in Paderborn (June 1999)

A NEW CHALLENGE                        

Since the world championships in Paderborn ended I can tell you that I am very positive about the cooperation between Rebel and Chess Tiger. The reputation of Rebel is well known, but I also met with Christophe Theron and in my opinion he is a very talented programmer. I am sure that Chess Tiger has a high potential, the more because this program is already having a very high playing strength.

For me this means that - besides my work for Ed and the Rebel opening book - I have found a new challenge: Help Christophe and Chess Tiger to become a very strong chess program. In Paderborn Chess Tiger was playing with my opening book and in the future I will also work on optimizing the book for the Tiger. Somehow I feel very confident about the future, because with Rebel and Chess Tiger I am able to work for two great chess programs.

For Chess Tiger I want to share my chess knowledge to improve the playing strength of this chess program, and I am also happy that my future improved books will be a part of the Tiger. With these joint forces I am sure that we will be able to improve a lot. First goal is to participate in the open Dutch championships, later this year. Of course I cannot wait this event coming closer and closer! This will be the first test after the WC in Paderborn.

All in all I think this cooperation (between Christophe, Ed and me) can lead to newer, better and stronger engines. Of course we'll have to wait what the future brings us, but as far as I am concerned, it is going to be a bright one!

Jeroen Noomen

Fritz: http://www.chessbase.com/shop/product.asp?pid=295

Deep Fritz: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3511

 http://www.rebel.nl/gandalf.htm

 http://www.hiarcs.com

Hiarcs has long been established as one of the world's premier chess playing engines. Now the latest version 11.2 takes the HIARCS series of chess engines to a new level of chess understanding and chess strength. Never before has HIARCS been so fast, searched so deep or been so strong!  The unique and entertaining attacking style has been enhanced and extended so HIARCS is often more decisive in its attacking approach which includes direct king attacks. The chess knowledge has naturally been improved and the search is deeper and hence Hiarcs 11 is more capable than any of its predecessors.

 http://www.chesscentral.com/software/chess_playing_software.htm 

The Israeli program Junior – authors Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky – won the 14th World Computer Chess Championship, which was held as a side event of the Chess Olympiad in Turin. Junior scored 9/11. Second was Shredder with 8.5/11, third Rajlich with the same score. Results and pictures.

Final Standings:

The Chessmaster chess engine is called The King, written by Johan de Koning of the Netherlands. According to the April 2007 Swedish Chess Computer Association (SSDF) rating list, Chessmaster 9000 has an estimated Elo rating of 2715 on an Athlon-1200 PC. If multiple versions of other engines are stripped out of their list, Chessmaster 9000 ranks as the eleventh best. As of March 2007, the 10th Edition has not been rated by SSDF. Another rating list, CCRL, places Chessmaster 10th Edition in 14th place on its September 2007 list.^[1]

The King engine allows users to create new playing styles, also called "personalities", by manipulating several dozen different settings, such as King Safety, Pawn Weakness, Randomness, Mobility and others. Individual piece values can also be adjusted. Chessmaster 9000, for example, features over 150 different personalities ranging from International Grandmaster strength down to Stanley, who is described as a monkey and plays what are essentially random moves.

The personality feature has inspired many amateur computer chess enthusiasts to attempt to find more optimum personalities. Notable among these are Kurt Utzinger, Wilhelm Hudetz, Jason Kent, Dom Leste, Milorad Madjar, Graham Banks and Ray Banks. In Chessmaster 10th Edition, the creation of new personalities has been made easier than before.

Chessmaster 9000

Chessmaster 9000 defeated then U.S. Chess Champion International Grandmaster Larry Christiansen in a four-game match held in September 2002.^{[citation needed]} Chessmaster won the match 2.5-1.5. The Chessmaster program was operated by John Merlino, the Project Manager of Chessmaster at the time of the match. Four different personalities were used in the match, the first three of which were based on famous human Grandmasters: Alexander Alekhine, Bobby Fischer, and Mikhail Botvinnik. The final game of the match used the default "Chessmaster" personality. Christiansen won the first game, lost the second and third games, and the fourth game resulted in a draw.

 http://shop.lokasoft.nl/product.php/40/1

Ktulu 8.0 is a strong engine with a interesting and active playing style. This version is estimated 50-100 point stronger than the previous verion. The engine is written by the young talented Rahman Paidar from Iran. We expect more inprovements over time.

 http://www.loopchess.com/

32-Bit and 64-Bit Computer Systems LOOP has been developed and optimized for both the 32-bit computer systems and 64-bit computer systems. For use on 64-bit computer systems the 64-bit version of LOOP should be deployed only in order to achieve the best performance. The 32-bit version of LOOP is to be installed on 32-bit computer systems only.

 Naum chess engine

Naum is a chess engine supporting both Winboard and UCI protocols.
It's being developed constantly since 2003 and at the moment belongs to the top 5 chess engines in the world.

As of 27-July-2007 you can purchase Naum 2.2
This version is stronger then Naum 2.1 and searches faster and deeper. It supports up to 4 CPUs.
If you need an 8 CPU version, please contact the author.
Price for the new customers is 28 euros.
Upgrade for the existing customers is 14 euros.

• purchase via PayPal

• New customers: purchase Naum 2.2
• Existing customers: purchase Naum 2.2

• Naum's page at SuperChessEngine.com

Get a free Palm PDA version of Naum here <SCRIPT language="JavaScript"

 http://www.rebel.nl/edindex.htm

REBEL CENTURY 4.0 MEGA is the latest masterpiece of top programmer Ed Schröder. Rebel Century 4.0 runs under its own well-known DOS interface directly launched from your Windows desktop.

Rebel is one of the strongest and most complete chess programs in the world. Rebel is famous for its playing strength and especially for its deep positional understanding. Its analysis and game play are highly reliable and what make Rebel play especially well against strong human chess players.

In the latest version 4.0, its positional playing style is kept while brand new software is added to better understand upcoming king attacks, this as the ultimate preparation for the match against world top player GM Loek van Wely elo 2714 which recently was played and ended in 2-2.

 http://www.lokasoft.nl/ruffian.htm

Ruffian 2 is a strong chess program from the Swedish programmer Perola Valfridsson. Recently this chess program won the Dutch open ahead of The King and Chess Tiger. Ruffian 2 is the successor of the freely available free 1.0.5 version. This version has a much higher playing strength which brings it in the same league with engines as Deep Sjeng and Chess Tiger.

Ruffian 2 is a fast program that reaches high search depths very quickly, this makes it a tactically strong engine. The chess engine has a lot of endgame knowledge and can make use of endgame tablebases.

The Ruffian 2 chess engine is UCI and winboard compatible, this makes it possible not only to use the engine with ChessPartner but also with other interfaces that are UCI or winboard compatible. The package includes the latest ChessPartner interface.

Features:

• Chess engine is UCI and Winboard compatible.
• Version 2.0.2 and 2.1 included.
• Multivariation mode.
• Nalimov Endgame Table bases.
• ChessPartner 5.3 interface.
• Linux and Mac OS/X versions of the engine are included on the CD-ROM.

UCI and Winboard compatible

The Ruffian chess engine is UCI and Winboard compatible. This makes it possible not only to use the chess engine with the ChessPartner interface but also in other interfaces supporting the UCI or Winboard protocol.

Version 2.0.2 and 2.1 included

 http://www.rybkachess.com/

Result

Rank	Program	Origin	Hardware	Score	Games	SOS	SoDOS	Title
1	Rybka	USA	2x 5355, 8 GB RAM	10.0	11	56.0	47.75	World Computer Chess Champion
2	Zappa	TUR		9.0	11	57.0	43.00	Second Place
3	Loop	DEU	Kentsfield @ 3,2-3,4 GHz; Woodcrest 3,0 GHz	7.5	11	58.5	32.00	Third Place
4	Shredder	DEU		7.0	11	59.0	30.00
5	GridChess	DEU	Cluster	7.0	11	59.0	29.25
6	Deep Sjeng	BEL	2 x Intel Xeon 5355	6.0	11	60.0	24.50
7	Jonny	DEU	Intel Core2Duo@3.4GHz, 1 GB RAM	5.0	11	61.0	19.75
8	Diep	NLD	4 core AMD K8 2.4Ghz	4.5	11	61.5	14.75
9	The Baron	NLD		4.0	11	62.0	15.75
10	IsiChess	DEU		3.5	11	62.5	12.50
11	The King	NLD		2.5	11	63.5	5.75
12	micro-Max	NLD		0.0	11	66.0	0.00

 http://www.shredderchess.com 

Welcome to Shredder Chess

The Shredder chess programs by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen provide a game playing and analysis tool for everybody and are accepted as one of the best chess programs of the world. Since 1996, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen's Shredder chess program has won twelve titles as World Computer Chess Champion.

• 1996 World Micro Computer Chess Champion in Jakarta
• 1999 World Micro Computer Chess Champion in Paderborn
• 1999 World Computer Chess Champion in Paderborn
• 2000 World Micro Computer Chess Champion in London
• 2001 World Micro Computer Chess Champion Single CPU in Maastricht
• 2002 World Computer Chess Blitz Champion in Maastricht
• 2003 World Computer Chess Champion in Graz
• 2003 World Computer Chess Blitz Champion in Graz
• 2004 World Computer Chess Blitz Champion in Tel Aviv
• 2005 World Computer Chess Blitz Champion in Reykjavik
• 2006 World Computer Chess960 Champion in Mainz
• 2007 World Computer Chess Blitz Champion in Amsterdam

Get Shredder and other chess software, free chess download, online chess and information and news about computer chess here on our site.

 http://www.sjeng.org/

Deep Sjeng 2.x is a new version of Deep Sjeng 1.x, bringing a new, easier to use and more modern GUI combined with vastly improved playing strength. It plays above supergrandmaster level (more than 170 ELO stronger than Deep Sjeng 1.x), while still offering fully adjustable difficulty levels for learning players, as well as a controllable playing style.

Features

• Modern, easy to use graphical interface
• Top level chess engine with multiprocessor support (up to 8 CPUs)
• Fully adjustable difficulty levels and playing style
• Captured piece display and hint system for beginners
• PGN and EPD loading and saving
• Opening book with latest grandmaster theory included
• Supports Nalimov endgame databases
• Engine fully supports UCI 1.0 and 2.0 protocol
• Windows Vista compatible

New in version 2.7 (free update)

• Engine 50 ELO stronger than Deep Sjeng 2.5
• Vastly improved passed pawn and kingsafety understanding
• Improved SMP support, up to 8 CPUs
• Adjustable board graphics, GUI tweaks
• GUI supports thinking on the opponents time
• Improved analysis options, expanded opening book

Download/Order

 http://www.lokasoft.nl/smarthink

SmarThink 1.00 About engine: history, main ideas and game play

The work on SmarThink was started in 2001. It wasn't first chess programming experience of Sergei Markoff. His first chess program (Markoff's chess) was started in 1999 when he was 18 years old. In 2004 SmarThink became Russian computer chess champion and in 2005 it became CIS champion in computer chess. SmarThink is successor of the Russian computer chess traditions of “Kaissa” and “Mirage”. A lot of ideas of those engines was adopted and improved in SmarThink. IM Nickolai Olenin from Orel, Sergey Oksyuzov from St.-Petersburg and a lot of other Russian chess professionals and enthusiasts are helped Sergei to improve his engine. The main ideology of the SmarThink is to use more intelligence in both search and evaluation parts. There is a lot of chess-specific knowledge needed to fulfill a proper search. As we all know, Von Neuman computer architecture is totally different from that of human brain, and to my mind this is exactly the reason why the bionic approach (see Botvinnik) would fail. But to see a chess problem as a “conventional” search problem leads us to another dead end. SmarThink project is a try to better use computer’s strong sides in solving chess problems.

Zappa Retirement 

After some spectacular failures in the past months, the Zappa project is 100% finished. This includes both tournaments and future releases. Only one copy of the Zappa source code exists in the observable universe today, and that is safely squirreled away in a safe deposit box in the barbarous, provincial depths of rural Iowa, so I couldn't work on it even if I wanted to.

 https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/acozzie2/www/zappa/

Final standings: