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Top 5 Best Chess Engines of the World in 2018

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Aminol
Feb 12, 2019, 4:53 PM|
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Here’s the list of the Top 5 Best Chess Engines of the World in 2018:

1. Stockfish 9 – Elo 3438

Top 5 Best Chess Engines Of The World In 2018Stockfish is the strongest free chess engine. It is easy to say that Stockfish 9 is well beyond the skill of any grandmaster.
Stockfish is an open source UCI engine available for various desktop and mobile platform. It is developed by Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, Gary Linscott and Tord Romstad, with many contributions from a community of open source developers.
The best thing about Stockfish is that it is completely free, open source, and cross-platform. Stockfish and Komodo are far ahead of the rest of the field!
The computer king title regularly changes hands between these two engines! Consequently, they are the two strongest in chess history until today!
At the moment, Stockfish 9 64-bit 4CPU has an ELO rating of incredible 3438 points.
You can download Stockfish here: https://stockfishchess.org/

2. Komodo 11.3.1 – Elo 3404

Top 5 Best Chess Engines Of The World In 2018Komodo is a UCI chess engine developed by Don Dailey, Mark Lefler, and supported by chess author and evaluation expert, GM Larry Kaufman.
The chess engine is a commercial one, but older versions (8 and older) are free for non-commercial use.
At the moment, Komodo 11.3.1 64-bit 4CPU has an ELO rating of 3404.
You can buy the latest version of Komodo or get an older version for free here: https://komodochess.com/Komodo11.3.htm

3. Houdini 6 – Elo 3400

Top 5 Best Chess Engines Of The World In 2018Houdini is a UCI chess engine developed by Belgian programmer Robert Houdart. Earlier versions are free for non-commercial use (up to version 1.5a). Later versions – 2.0 and onwards – are commercial.
At the moment, Houdini 6 64-bit 4CPU has an ELO rating of 3400.
You can purchase Houdini here: http://www.cruxis.com/chess/houdini.htm

4. Fire 7.1 – Elo 3325

Top 5 Best Chess Engines Of The World In 2018Originally called Firebird, this another top chess engine that’s available for free, the engine is usually among the top 10 best chess engines in many rating lists.
It was originally started out as an open-source project, but later on, the code became closed. However, there is a fork off of fire 2.2, which has been renamed Firenzina, which is still open-sourced.
When the Fire chess engine became closed, the code was completely rewritten, in order to avoid containing any code from the chess engine Ippolit, as the original open-source version contained part of it.
You can download this engine here: https://chesslogik.wixsite.com/fire

5. Deep Shredder 13 – Elo 3286

Top 5 Best Chess Engines Of The World In 2018Deep Shredder 13 is considered one of the strongest chess software on the planet. This one is not a free chess engine like Stockfish or Komodo, it actually comes with its own interface, which is also considered one of the best interfaces to practice with a chess engine.
Shredder is definitely to be considered one of the best chess engines of the world since it has already won seventeen titles as World Computer Chess Champion and is accepted as one of the best chess engines of the world.
You can download Shredder 13 from the following link: https://www.shredderchess.com/chess-software/deep-shredder13.html

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