After a couple of years break it again came on top of the list with the second result. Houdini – several times it was the leading engine.Komodo – it was the strongest engine about a year ago.Nowadays it is outrun by a number of other engines. It is programmed by Fabien Letouzey from France. Legendary engine which was the strongest some time ago. WildCat – Product from belarusian programmer Igor Korshunov.List of free UCI-engines, sorted by their ratings (currently outdated).Rybka 2.232 – 'Rybka' version which becomes free after Rybka 3 release.Houdini 1.5 - the last free version of the Houdini engine.Version 8 is provided together with Kvetka. StockFish - The strongest engine for today (beginning of 2017).The other two popular engines rating lists are CEGT and IPON. Buy chess software from the developers of Houdini 5 Aquarium 2017 and Chess Assistant 17, play chess online, watch tournament broadcasts live, access opening tree and get free PGN games Houdini 2. Here you can see the list of the top engines according to CCRL, one of the most prestigious rating lists. Houdini for PC fast, reliable, and robust by SideFX. This application’s primary functions are comprehensive and go beyond the features offered by others that can be considered as its rivals. The authors are constantly developing their engines, therefore from time to time the title of being strongest is transferred from one engine to another. Houdini application is free to download and offers easy-to-install, easy-to-use, secure, and reliable Imaging and Digital Photo applications. There is also a closed commercial format used by the company ChessBase but nowadays only Fritz is still tied to its graphic shell and doesn't have its UCI version. Nowadays UCI is the most popular protocol for interacting between the chess engines and their graphic interfaces. With Kvetka you can use any chess engine which supports UCI format.

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