Houdini 2.0c is now available! It's superb - I've tried to match it with Fritz 12 in a 3 round matches and won all of them. Super fast on a Vista, 2.1 Gz, 4RAM system. Tactically brilliant & positionally 'kick-a*s'. Have you try it yet? Tell me in the comments - what's your favorite chess engine? Freely available There are hundreds of freely available chess engines which conform to one of the above communication protocols. Many run on Windows or are open source. The top 10 strongest, freely available engines are listed here. [18] Engine (strongest version) Author (Country) Elo Houdini v1.5a Robert Houdart (Belgium) 3309 Critter v1.4 Richard Vida (Slovakia) 3305 (64-bit 4CPU) Komodo v3.0 Don Dailey 3280 (64-bit) IvanHoe v9.47b Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, Igor Igorovich Igoronov, Robert Pescatore, Yusuf Ralf Weisskopf, Ivan Skavinsky Skavar 3270 Fire v1.31 Norman Schmidt (USA) 3260 Stockfish v2.1.1...
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