chess engine Archives

minnow – simple and fairly weak chess engine

minnow is a chess engine with partial UCI compatibility, a 10×12 board representation with piece lists.

Texel applies many of the standard methods for computer chess programs, such as iterative deepening, negascout, aspiration windows…

Ghost is an xboard compatible chess engine. It offers multi-core support, singular Extensions, and more.

zurichess is a chess engine and a chess library. Its main goals are to be a relatively strong chess engine and to enable chess tools writing.

ShashChess is a free UCI chess engine derived from Stockfish family chess engines.

Fruit is a cross-platform UCI chess engine.

Demolito is a UCI chess engine. As such, it is a command line program, which is not designed to be used directly.

Critter is not yet mature enough to have a distinctive playing style and relies more on tactics.

Koivisto in itself is not a complete chess program and requires a UCI-compatible graphical user interface.

chess22k is a chess engine that uses the UCI protocol to communicate with graphical interfaces.