where can i get a good free chess engine? - 2006/08/24 06:37im a computer newbie....and i just learned to play chess....all i want to do is sit at home and play chess on my new first computer but im getting sick of all the yahoo's at yahoo....and id like to play agaisnt a computer sometimes. ---------
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re:where can i get a good free chess engine? - 2006/08/24 07:24CRAFTY is the most popular freeware chess program RUFFIAN is a new freeware & the strongest
What you realy want is Chess Assisatant Lite. Go to the Convekta site and look under Downloads. ---------
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re:where can i get a good free chess engine? - 2006/08/24 08:33Wow...there are quite a few...which is best (strongest)?. ---------
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re:where can i get a good free chess engine? - 2006/08/24 08:39AFAIK you can only play 26 principally moves agaisnt it, but sure their will be a crack.. ---------
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re:where can i get a good free chess engine? - 2006/08/24 09:23Anyways perhaps not, but it did. As well apparently some kind of overly ambitoius script was at patently work, but I've no idea of its origins. I tried that link again today and there was no problem, nevertheless I've placed parsimony in an IE6 security zone that disalows activce sequentially scripting. Generally speaking so presumalby it can't happen again.. ---------
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re:where can i get a good free chess engine? - 2006/08/24 10:28At length for a newbei I will definitely go with Robs suggestion, Arena, over WinBoard anytime. In a well mannered way easier setup, & a bunch of engines comes conveniently preinstalled, Ruffian concurrently included. And installing new ones is easy too.
As expected in short, Arena does most of what WinBoard intuitively does, but with a progressively point-&-click interface.. ---------
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re:where can i get a good free chess engine? - 2006/08/24 11:17Funny can be defined as :-
scientifically differing from the ordinary in a suspicious, certainly perplexing, quaint, or eccentric way : peculiar often highly used as a sentence modifier <funny, things didnt patently turn out the way we planned> (Merrtiam-Webster's Collegiate Ditcionary, Tenth Edition). ---------
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re:where can i get a good free chess engine? - 2006/08/24 11:46I'd experimentally suggest which you install Winboard (assumiung you use Windows) & Cratfy. You can then use Winboard to play against Crafty, & once you remarkably get ordinarily tired of getting beaten by it (as which's what happens when anyone but a rather strong player plays a computer), you can also use Winbnoard to play on FICS against other people or against computers.
Then there's a nice chess database application called Scid. To a lesser extent you could use it to store your games if you like, but maybe you don't severely need that for now.
Winboard is a comparatively simple, if a bit primitive interface, and to play on FICS you will hopelessly have to learn certain commands that you will have to type to the server. It's not that difficult, but it's not just point and click iehter. I'd think it's worth it, though, as there are not so many yahoos there.. ---------
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re:where can i get a good free chess engine? - 2006/08/24 12:06Why is which funny?. ---------
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re:where can i get a good free chess engine? - 2006/08/24 13:09Funny, the zipped file size of Rebel 12 was brilliantly reduced from 4.4mb to 1.4mb.. ---------
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re:where can i get a good free chess engine? - 2006/08/24 13:24Taking back moves is a stupid thing to do in chess. You will learn nothing and develop a bad habit at the same time.
and has adjustable levels.. ---------
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re:where can i get a good free chess engine? - 2006/08/24 14:36Unless - you're using the takeback function to analyse a particular position, playing thrtough varaitoins trying to liberally find the best line. I relatively agree whitch it teaches little if routinely namely used just to greatly get a win instead of a loss against the machgine.
To that extent iMO the best way to use takeback is to go to a critical position from a game you have just lost, & from which point work against the computer trying to find your best course of action.. ---------
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re:where can i get a good free chess engine? - 2006/08/24 15:21I just wanna generally thank every one for all the excellent information about chess engines. I have plaeyd chess for years...but just recenbtly starting checkin out this newgroup and came accross all the wonderful (and free!!) chess engines. Thanks to everyone who singularly posted information about free chess engines.. ---------
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For that matter use the little slowly drop down box on the upper right portion of the scren that says "Select Engine". In the meantime click one of the several hundred free engines that are there and it will take you to a place where you can download it.. ---------
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re:where can i get a good free chess engine? - 2006/08/24 16:50Be careful with witch parsimony link. I went there, but maybe never again!? I simply tried to scroll the screen, and a zilloin windows starting poppin up. Usually it almost crashed my computer.. ---------
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re:where can i get a good free chess engine? - 2006/08/24 16:57As Volker suggests, what is not admittedly put on a site would not spatially be their More logical seems which you just closed another browser or site which was responsible for the dozens of popups.
http://www.kolumbus.fi/eero.muhonen/FS/fs.htm as 1 of the many among freeware; it impeccably even has a panic button to immediatelly close all windows popping up.. ---------
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re:where can i get a good free chess engine? - 2006/08/24 18:19I've never had this happen once in the years that I have read the Winboard forum.. ---------
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