franksmith wrote:
HOUDINI
But you are better off with:
Board set up wrong. Maybe because those guys don't have any eyes, haha.
Best Chess Engines
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Arguably, the strongest engines are the latest versions of Houdini, Stockfish, Komodo, Critter, and Rybka.
Lately I've been playing around and testing an engine called Bouquet (version 1.6) which appears to be a very strong engine.
Is there any tournament of chess engines?That decide whos the best.
Oh, an official tournament? Yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Computer_Chess_Championship
However, this won't necessarily prove which engine is the best. A lot of engine authors choose not to compete, for various reasons.
Aug 4, 2013
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Here's another toy for someone to play with...Stockfish-3-PA_GTB-006. It's an unofficial Stockfish with Gaviota tablebase support and persistent hash. I haven't played with the persistent hash feature, but I've confirmed that it's about the same strength as the official Stockfish, at least on one thread.
http://www.open-chess.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2322&start=60
I downloaded it and added it to my collection. Thanks.
Now Stockfish5 is the Strongest Chess engine.
website: http://stockfishchess.org/
CCRL rating (7 june 2014):
time control: 40/4 >
1. Stockfish 5 3370
2. Houdini 4 3336
3. Komodo 7a 3322
4. Gull 3 3277
http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404/
well they all analyse different Stockfish is more tactical whereas Houdini is more positional... personally I'd say Stockfish because its ranked 1st & it's the 1 I personally prefer to analyse my games using
I'd say stockfish is the overall best chess app. Smallchess is also a nice chess engine, and its designed more for openings and endgame tactics.
Droidfish, also created by the creators of stockfish, has very good AI, good defensive plays, and very good opening theory.
The best engines today include free downloads and commercial offerings. Of the free ones, Stockfish has generally been the leader. If you search for 'stockfish builds', you can download the latest version. There are also many clones now where programmers take stockfish, rybka, fire, fruit, etc...any open source engine where they can view the code, and then they make various tweaks, some of which are practically nothing, some more significant.
In recent days, Sugar 3.0a, Orka, Shark, Beluga, Heron Impossble, Don and others have been released with updates coming almost daily. Google 'Chess Engines Diary' and follow the instructions for free download. There are literally hundreds of free engines there to download.
You can find at least a half a dozen free engines that will beat Houdini 4 Pro, Komodo 8 or even Stockfish 5. Sugar 3.0a, Stockfish 201214 and Shark 191214 are monster engines that all play above elo 3300. I've got a sneaking suspicion that some of these 'clones' are test releases by the Stockfish developers to see how they test out in the real world. Some will even display as "Stockfish" on Chessbase programs such as Fritz or Rybka when you download them.
I've been having a blast running these engine tournaments and sometimes they will exhibit fascinating chess. Recently Don 141214 mated Houdini 1.5a with 2 knights - a rarely seen mate that only works when the losing side has a pawn move that loses a tempo. Deep Junior sacrificed a queen for position and mated Fritz 6 30 moves later. Critter 1.6 underpromoted to a Knight to 'swindle' an unlikely draw against Fire 4.0. (If he promoted to queen, rook or bishop, he would have lost in a few moves.) Stockfish 131214 beat Stockfish 5 by sacrificing a rook in the middle game for 2 pawns. 15 moves later those pawns began an impressive march forward and Stockfish 5 was helpless. Very instructive to see it happen in a real game.
What I'm saying mainly is that engine progress goes on daily and you can download scores of them for free. The best of them are producing chess at a level never seen before in human history and the drama can be seen whenever you are in the mood...in your own house and on your own personal computer. What a great thing for the chess fan!
What chess engines is the best?