Chess engines for Linux (Linux.com)
Chess engines for Linux are comparable in strength to commercial chess engines available for other platforms. Here's a look at the features of half a dozen of the most well-known chess engines for Linux. A chess engine is the actual program against which you play the game. A chess engine can take a move as an input, and after analysis, generate a move of its own as an output."
Posted Mar 24, 2007 0:11 UTC (Sat)
by nas (subscriber, #17)
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Posted Mar 25, 2007 21:17 UTC (Sun)
by Los__D (guest, #15263)
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Note that even though Fruit 2.1 has a basic evaluation function, it plays stronger than all but the top programs. Fabien did a good thing by releasing the code under the GPL.
I've seen several arguments for keeping the evaluation function simple, as that is the piece of code getting the hardest beating, so fast code there means more PLY, which means better chess, often better than what clever evaluations get you. This seems to be another example of that :)
The strongest open source engine is probably Toga. You can use UCI engines like Toga and Fruit 2.1 with Scid (an excellent chess database) by using polyglot to connect them. Some ratings: http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/rating.htm . Note that even though Fruit 2.1 has a basic evaluation function, it plays stronger than all but the top programs. Fabien did a good thing by releasing the code under the GPL.Chess engines for Linux (Linux.com)
Chess engines for Linux (Linux.com)