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Stockfish has been one of the strongest chess engines in the world for several years; [3] [4] [5] it has won all main events of the Top Chess Engine Championship (TCEC) and the Chess.com Computer Chess Championship (CCC) since 2020 and, as of 16 November 2024, is the strongest CPU chess engine in the world with an estimated Elo rating of 3642 ...
Torch is a closed-source chess engine created by Chess.com. [30] [31] Torch has finished second in several Chess.com Computer Chess Championship events, only behind Stockfish in each case. [32] It initially participated in the tournament under the name "Mystery". [31] [33] It is freely useable through Chess.com's analysis page. [34]
Universal Chess Interface (UCI) engines such as Fritz or Rybka may have a built-in mechanism for reducing the Elo rating of the engine (via UCI's uci_limitstrength and uci_elo parameters). Some versions of Fritz have a Handicap and Fun mode for limiting the current engine or changing the percentage of mistakes it makes or changing its style.
Most contemporary chess engines are command-line programs which generate chess moves, but which require a separate chess graphical user interface in order to display a chessboard. The main article for this category is Chess engine .
Leela Chess Zero (abbreviated as LCZero, lc0) is a free, open-source chess engine and volunteer computing project based on Google's AlphaZero engine. It was spearheaded by Gary Linscott , a developer for the Stockfish chess engine , and adapted from the Leela Zero Go engine.
The program is a console application that communicates with a chess graphical user interface (GUI) via standard Universal Chess Interface protocol. IPPOLIT is a bitboard chess engine optimized for 64-bit architecture with native support for both 32-bit/64-bit Linux and Windows operating systems. With about 3100 ELO it is listed in TOP 50 ...
A chess engine generates moves, but is accessed via a command-line interface with no graphics. A dedicated chess computer has been purpose built solely to play chess. A graphical user interface (GUI) allows one to import and load an engine, and play against it. A chess database allows one to import, edit, and analyze a large archive of past games.
Crafty uses the Chess Engine Communication Protocol and can run under the chess interfaces XBoard and Winboard. Crafty is written in ANSI C with assembly language routines available on some CPUs, and is very portable. The source code is available, but the software is for "personal use" only and redistribution is only allowed under certain ...