Chess Engines

Information for authors

If you are writing a chess engine and you want it to work with xboard/WinBoard, or if you are writing a user interface and want it to work with these engines, please read the Chess Engine Communication Protocol document, and consider joining the mailing list for engine authors, hosted at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chess-engines/.

Information for players

Here is a partial list of chess engines (programs that play chess) that work with xboard and/or WinBoard.

I am currently not keeping this list updated. The last update was November 2002. For an up-to-date list of WinBoard engines with information about each one, see Leo Dijksman's web site. For announcements of new engines, see Leo's site and the WinBoard Forum. To be able to use still more engines, see my Extensions and Drivers page for drivers that allow some Auto232 and UCI engines to work with WinBoard. For help getting started with alternative chess engines, see Aaron Tay's FAQ, as well as the other links on my Chess Web Sites page.

Disclaimers: I have not tried most of these engines, so I can't guarantee they will work for you or offer help installing them. Contact the author of each engine if you need help with it beyond what is provided in its documentation. The list is in alphabetical order, not in order of merit.

1. 31337
2. Adam
3. Abrok
4. Alarm (not released yet)
5. Aldebaran
6. Amateur
7. Amundsen
8. Amy
9. Amyan
10. AnMon
11. Ant
12. Arasan
13. Aristarch
14. Armageddon
15. Asterisk
16. Averno
17. Awesome
18. Ax
19. Baby Chess
20. BACE (also known as BCE)
21. Baron
22. Beaches
23. Belzebub
24. Beowulf
25. Bestia
26. Betsy
27. BigBook
28. BigLion
29. Bionic Impakt
30. Blikskottel
31. BremboCE
32. Bringer (also known as Der Bringer)
33. BSC
34. Butcher (also known as Rzeznik)
35. Capture (commercial)
36. Cefap
38. Chess-Rikus
39. ChessterfieldCL
40. ChessThinker
41. Chezzz
42. Cilian
43. ColChess
44. Comet
45. Cpp1
46. Crafty
47. Crux
48. CyberPagno
49. Damas
50. DChess
51. Deep Bug (bughouse and crazyhouse only)
52. Deep Trouble
53. Defeo (plays a Czech variant of crazyhouse called "tetris holandany")
54. Delfi
55. Dragon
56. Duke
57. Embracer
58. EnginMax
59. Esc
60. EXchess
61. Faile
62. Fauce
63. Fimbulwinter
64. Fortress
65. Francesca
66. Frenzee (formerly ChessCraft)
67. Freyr
68. Gandalf (commercial)
69. Gargamella
70. Gaviota
71. Gedeone
72. Genesis
73. Gerbil
74. Ghost
75. Giveaway Wizard (aka Losing Chess Wizard) - see also
76. GNU Chess
77. Golem
78. Green Light Chess
79. GreKo
80. Grizzly
81. Gromit
82. Gullydeckel
83. Hagrid
84. Holmes
85. Horizon
86. Inmichess
87. Jester
88. KACE
89. Kaissa2
90. KasparovX
91. King of Kings
92. KnightCap - bug fix
93. KnightDreamer
94. Knightx (also known as Techno Chess)
95. La Dame Blanche
96. LadyGambit
97. lambChop
98. LaMoSca
99. LarsenVB
100. Leila
101. List
102. Little Goliath
103. LordKing
104. Madeleine
105. Matheus
106. MFChess
107. Mint
108. Monarch
109. Monik
110. Mooboo
111. Morphy
112. Movei
113. Mr Chess (formerly Dr Chess)
114. MSCP
115. Muriel (aka KDLChess)
116. Mustang
117. Mystery
118. Nejmet
119. Nero
120. Nimzo (commercial)
121. NoonianChess
122. OliThink
123. Ozwald
124. Patzer (commercial)
125. Pentagon - dead link?
126. Pepito
127. Phalanx - alternate link
128. Pharaon (formerly ZChess)
129. Pierre
130. PolarChess
131. PreChess
132. Pyotr
133. Quark
134. Queen
135. Raffaela
136. RDChess
137. Replicant
138. Requiem
139. Resp
140. Rival Chess (also known as NewRival)
141. Robin
142. RoboKewlper
143. Ruffian
144. Sachy
145. SdBC
146. Siboney
147. Sjeng (also plays several chess variants)
148. Skaki
149. Small Potato (also known as unches)
150. SmarThink
151. SnailChess
152. Soldat
153. SOS
154. SSEChess
155. StAndersen
157. Storm
158. StrategicDeep
159. Sunsetter (also plays bughouse and crazyhouse)
160. Tamerlane
161. Tao
162. Terra
163. The Crazy Bishop
164. The King (commercial, part of Chessmaster 8000) - alternate Web page - how to use with WinBoard.
165. TheLightning
166. Tikov
167. T-Rex
168. Tristram
169. Trynyty
170. TSCP (Tom Kerrigan's Simple Chess Program)
171. Ufim
172. WildCat
173. WJChess
174. Yace
175. YAWCE
176. Zephyr

posted on 2006-09-12 19:59 楊粼波 閱讀(596) 評論(0)  編輯 收藏 引用 所屬分類: 文章收藏