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Engine Version Author Protocol Source Operating System Comment
Adam 3.3 Dominique Longbien UCI Win32
Alarm 0.93.1 Benny Antonsson, Erik Robertsson XB Win32
Alex 2.14a Normand Marcel Blais XB, UCI Win uses Scorpio bitbases
Alex 2.00, 1.94a, 1.85, 1.77, 1.73, 1.61 Normand Marcel Blais XB, UCI Win uses Scorpio bitbases
AliChess 4.25 Anton Lindenmair UCI Win32
Anatoli 0.35k Martin Giepmans XB Win32
Amateur 2.86 Will Singleton XB Win32
Amateur 2.82 Will Singleton XB Win32
AnMon 5.75wb Christian Barreteau XB Win32 UCI version available at Arena website
Aretar 1.0 Javier Ruiz UCI Win32
Arabian Knight 1.54 Marcin Gardyjan XB cross-platform Java jar file
Arabian Knight 1.55 Marcin Gardyjan XB cross-platform Java jar file
Asterisk 0.1b → 0.6b Péter Horváth XB, UCI Win32
AtlanChess 3.3 Grant Osborne XB Win32
Averno 0.81 José Carlos Martínez Galán XB Win
Averno 0.70, 0.52 José Carlos Martínez Galán XB Win
Ax 0.8 Pham Hong Nguyen XB Win
Ayito 0.2.994 Péter Horváth XB, UCI Win32 FRC
BabyChess 16 Jérôme Kunegis XB C++ source code only!; own GUI
BabyChess 11.1 Jérôme Kunegis XB C++ source code only!; own GUI
Bace 0.45 Chistopher Bowron XB Win32 version 0.46 is much weaker!
Belzebub 0.67 Radoslaw Kamowski XB Win32
BibiChess 0.5 Lucas Braesch & Romain Burgot UCI C++ Win engine replaced by DiscoCheck
BlackAndRight Dev 05-11-2011 Jet JA Matei Chiperi, Alexandra Vintila, Andrei Danescu, Alexandru Bujor XB Java Win old JA build; source code
BlackBishop 1.0 Andreas Herrmann XB, UCI Win32
Bodo 0.2b Joel Veness XB Win32
Brama 051204 Rea Biagio XB Win32
Bringer 1.9 Gerrit Reubold XB Win32
Bubble 1.5 Felipe Otaviano XB, UCI Win
BugChess2 1.9 François and Jean-Philippe Karr Win32 mp
Butcher 1.64 Marek Kolacz XB Linux, Win engine also known as 'Rzeznik'
Butcher 1.42c, 1.47, 1.56, 1.58 Marek Kolacz XB Linux, Win engine also known as 'Rzeznik'
Calculon r258 PN Barry Smith UCI Win, Linux, Mac source; jar built by Phokham Nonava
CaveChess r61 PN Tim Declercq XB Win, Linux, Mac source; jar built by Phokham Nonava
CCCP 10501 Pawel Koziol XB Win32
Cecir 2.3/3.0/3.5 Guillermo Carvalho XB Win32 based on TSCP
Cefap 0.72 Marcus Stjärnås XB Win32
Celes [aka: 31337, Eleet] 0.78.RWBC Johan Hutting XB, UCI Win32
Cerebro 3.03d Antonio Senatore XB Win32
Cerebro 3.03b Antonio Senatore XB Win32
Chessmind 0.82 Luca Hemmerich UCI Win
Chispa 4.03 Federico Andrés Corigliano XB, UCI Linux, Win FRC
Chispa 4.0, 3.82b Federico Andrés Corigliano XB, UCI Linux, Win FRC
Cleo 0.1 William Mota XB Win
Clownfish 0.1 Luca Vallisa XB Win
Clueless 1.4 Helmut Fett XB Win32
ColChess 8.0 Colin Frayn XB Win32
Crab 1.0 Beta Adam Kleng UCI C++ Linux, Mac, Win Stockfish derivative; mp; FRC
Crafty(old)DC 11.13 → 23.0 Bob Hyatt XB Win32 Dann Corbit compiles
Damas 1c → 9 William Mota XB Win32
DanChess 1.08-0502, CCT7 Daniel Shawul XB Win
Darmenios 0.4, 0.3 Dariusz Czechowski XB Win
DeepTrouble 1.0 Larry Griffiths XB Win32
Demolito rev252 Lucas Braesch UCI Win no 'official' release by author
Dimitri 1.36, 1.0, 0.73 Luigino Viscione XB Win
Dragon 4.6 Bruno Lucas XB Win32
DrunkenMaster 1.2 Marcus Prewarski XB, UCI Win32
Duke 3.0 Carlo Pivotto XB Win32
Eagle 0.71 & 0.75 Frank Scharn XB Win32
Elephant 1.06 Harald Luessen XB Win32
Embracer 1.12 Benny Antonsson XB Win32
EnginMax 5.24, 5.11c Engin Üstün UCI Win some older versions support XB protocol
Etude 0.12 Jacob Hales XB, UCI Win32
Excelsior 3.21, 2.32b Marek Klonowski XB Win requires .NET framework
Excelsior 3.16 Marek Klonowski XB Win requires .NET framework
Faile 1.4.4 DC Adrien Regimbald XB Win
Fauce 0.41c Ubaldo Andrea Farina XB Win32
Feuerstein 0.451, 0.43, 0.3 Fritz Grau UCI Pascal Win32 Download removed at request of Google
Fimbulwinter 5.00 John Shedletsky XB C Win32
FireFly 1.11, 1.32, 1.42, 2.00, 2.15, 2.22, 2.41, 2.52, 2.56, 2.513, 2.60, 2.70 Andrew Fan XB, UCI Win modern versions support mp
Firenzina 2.4.3 MH unknown + Norman Schmidt + Dmitri Gusev + Mathew Brades UCI C Linux64
Fortress 1.62 Alessandro Damiani XB Win32
Freyr 1.067 Andrei Fortuna XB C++ Win32
Fruit 2.3.1 and others Fabien Letouzey UCI C++ Win, Linux, Mac
Fruit 2.1 Fabien Letouzey UCI C++ Win32, Mac
Fruit 2.1 Fabien Letouzey UCI C++ Linux32
Fruit 1.0, 1.5 Fabien Letouzey UCI C++ Win32
Gargamella 0.50 Nicola Rizzuti XB Win32
Genesis 2.0 Omid David Tabibi XB Win32
GES 1.36 David B Weller XB Win32
GK 0.90 Tijs van Dam XB C++ Win
Glaurung 2.1 GUI Tord Romstad UCI C++ Mac
Glaurung 2.2 Tord Romstad UCI C++ Linux, Mac, Win
GnuChess5 5.07 Chua Kong Sian, Stuart Cracraft, Simon Waters XB, UCI Win engine now known as GnuCheese
Golem 0.4rev41 Gianluigi Masciulli XB Win
Gothmog 1.0b10 Tord Romstad XB Win32
Gothmog 0.48, 0.43 Tord Romstad XB Win32 FRC
Hamsters 0.7.1 Alessandro Scotti UCI Win32 FRC; mp; multiPV
Hippocampe 0.4.2 Jérémy Pages XB C Linux, Mac, Win
Holmes 0.829e Andreas Herrmann XB Win32
Hussar 0.4 Péter Horváth UCI Win FRC; skill levels
Hussar 0.3, 0.2 Péter Horváth UCI Win FRC; skill levels
Ildtiadar 0.9f Jonas Thiem XB Linux, Win
InmiChess 3.05 Werner Inmann XB Win
Intellichess 1.0 Sari Haj Hussein XB C# Win requires .NET runtime
IACH 0.56Z Manuel Diaz XB Win32
iChess 2.0 Liao, Sang, Zheng XB Win32
JanWillem 1.13 Laurens Winkelhagen XB Win32
JARS 1.75a Daniel Anulliero XB Win32
JChess 1.0 PN Tomasz Michniewski XB Win, Linux, Mac source; jar built by Phokham Nonava
Joana 2004.03.30 DC Juan Pablo Mendoza XB Win
KillerQueen 2.0b3 Lorenzo Stella XB Win32
KKFChess 2.67, 2.63 Andrew Fan XB, UCI Win engine replaced by Firefly
Knockout 0.7.1 build 002 Sven Schüle XB Win can use PolyGlot opening books; uses Gaviota egtbs
LadyGambit 1.0 Carlo Pivotto XB Win32
LambChop 10.99 Peter McKenzie XB Win32
Laurifer 1.0 Robert Lubczynski XB Win32
Leila 0.53h Carmelo Calzerano XB, UCI Win32
LesserProphet 1.01 James Swafford XB C++ Win32 source code only; didactic: intended as a starting point for new programmers
Loop 2007 Fritz Reul UCI Win32
Loop 2007×64 Fritz Reul UCI Win64
LordKing 4.0 Carlo Pivotto XB Win later versions of this engine were Fruit clones
Madeleine 0.2 Luigi Ripamonti XB, UCI Win32
Mainsworthy 141 Mark Ainsworth XB Win32 C++ source; Win32; own GUI (GUI for native use only)
Marvin 1.30 Martin Danielsson XB Win32
Matheus 2.3 Josué Forte XB Win32, Linux
Milady compilation Yves Lejeail XB Win new version requires .NET 4.0 or better, older versions required 2.0 or better
MiniChessAI 1.20 Marcin Gardyjan XB Win32 own GUI (SimpleChess 1.72)
Mint 2.3 Christian Söderström XB Win32
Mizar 2.0, 2.1, 3.0 Nicola Rizzuti XB C Linux, Mac, Win
Monik 2.1.1 Sylvain Lacombe XB C++ Linux, Mac, Win older version
Mooboo 0.04E Steffen Basting XB Win32 builds w/ various sized hash tables
Mooboo 0.2b Steffen Basting XB Win32 older version; builds w/ various sized hash tables
Morphy 3.22 Erik Walstra XB Win32
Movei 0.08.438 Uri Blass XB, UCI Win32 FRC
MrChess 2.1 Aloysius Han XB Win32
Muriel 0.7.1 Manuel Jesus Petit de Gabriel XB Win(cygwin)
Naum 4.6 Aleksandar Naumov XB, UCI Win32/64 mp; FRC
Nemeton 1.41, 1.4 Stan Arts XB Pascal Win mp (4 cores max) Win; older versions
Nero 6.1 Juri Huikari XB Win32
Neurosis 2.5 Stan Arts XB Win32 3D GUI version too
Neurosis 2.5 Stan Arts XB Win32 3D GUI version too; older versions
Nimzo 2000, 2000a, 2000b Christian Donninger XB Win Once commercial, now free
NoonianChess 3.206P2 Charles Roberson XB Win32
Oberon 0.04 Pawel Koziol XB Win32 variant play (Spartan Chess)
OctoChess r5506HK Tim Kosse XB, UCI C++ Linux, Mac, Win mp; FRC; multiPV; (compiled by Hermann Krause)
Patzer 3.80 Roland Pfister XB, UCI Win32 mp; FRC; own endgame bitbases
Pentagon 1.2 Andrea Gatti XB Win32
Philou 3.71 Philippe Gailhac UCI Win32/64
Plywood 1.73X Jim Bumgardner XB Win32
Pooky 2.7 David Dahlem XB, UCI Win32
Popochin 3.2 Miguel Izquierdo XB Win32
Pseudo 0.7c, 0.6h, 0.6 Jan Klima XB Win
Pupsi2 0.09 Jesper Nielsen UCI Win32 requires .NET 3.5 framework
Ranita 2.4 Jean-Yves Lallemand XB Win32
Reger 0.0.9, 0.0.7, 0.0.6 Bert van den Bosch XB Win Engine once known as 'JsBaM'
RomiChess P3L Michael Sherwin XB Win32 mp
RomiChess 2c, 2k, 3d, 3g, 3i, NG5 Michael Sherwin XB Win32 mp; older versions
Sachy 0.2.01 DC Martin Macok XB Win32
SdBC 0.4.13.1, 0.4.14.0, 0.5.15.1 Stefan de Buhr XB Win32
SharpChess2 2.69, 2.6, 2.52 Peter Hughes XB Win32
Shutranj TM Okash Khawaja UCI C# Win32/64
Sierzant 0.26, 0.28, 0.31 Mariusz Rostek XB Win32
SilChess 3.1 Oliver Hamann XB Win32, Linux32/64 engine is part of Eagle Mode GUI
Simon 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 Dan Honeycutt XB Win32
Sinapse 1.0 Mel Goto XB Win32
Smaug 2.2.1 Tord Romstad & Joona Kiiski UCI C++ Win32/64, Linux32/64, Mac Glaurung derivative, Linux builds by Jim Ablett
SnailChess 4.013 Chan Rashjid XB Win32
SpiderChess 070603 Martin Giepmans XB Win32
SSEChess 2.05 DC Samuel Slutzky XB Win32
St Andersen 1.31 Erik Robertson XB Win32
Stan's Chess 1.42 Stan Arts XB Win32 own GUI; engine also known as S-chess
Storm 0.6 Sean Empey XB Win32
StrategicDeep 1.25 Marcin Gardyjan XB Win32
Suff 0.3a Clemens Pruell UCI C++ Win32
Tamerlane 0.2 Luigi Ripamonti XB Win32
Tao 5.6 Bas Hamstra XB, UCI Win32
Thinker 5.4D Lance Perkins & Kerwin Medina XB Win mp, own GUI
Tigran 2.4n, 2.3, 2.2e Gabor Mihaly XB Win32
TinyChess 1.42 (linux/mac/win), 1.46 Kelvin Yang XB Win32
TRex 1.9beta, 1.85 Christophe Drieu XB Win32
Tristram 3.36 James Swafford XB Win32
Turgenev rev32 JA Chad Williamson XB Win32
Tyrell 1.02, 1.01 Normand Blais XB Win32
Tytan 9.32 Tomasz Michniewski XB Win mp
Tytan 8.75, 8.32, 7.51, 6.15, 5.22, 5.0, 4.7, 2.76 Tomasz Michniewski XB Win
Uragano 3D 0.92 Luca Naddei XB Win32 own GUI (3D)
Unidexter f5fb866 PN Michael Aherne UCI Java cross-platform jar file built by Phokham Nonava source
Warrior 1.03 Aleksandrs Saveljevs XB Win32
Wing 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.0a Stef Luijten XB C++ Linux, Win Crafty derivative
Xadreco 5.83.160606.175711 Ruben Carlo Benante XB C Win32 older versions support UCI
Xadreco 5.7, 5.6 Ruben Carlo Benante XB C Win32 older versions support UCI
Yawce 0.16 Jakob Sandholm XB Win32
Yoda 2.09 Daniel Anulliero XB Win32 version 2.09 has a hash table bug
Youk 1.05 Loïc Cuenot XB Win32
Zchess2 2006.06.03 Eamonn Ramsey XB Win
Zephyr 0.61 Thomas Schlapp XB Win32
Zoidberg 0.1 Manuel Diaz XB Win32
Zotron 4.46 Patrick M King XB Win32


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