Download free Chess engines for Fritz 14

[Apocolyptica]

For anyone who is not familiar with Fritz you can download tons of free chess engines to play against besides Fritz itself. Just do a google search for free uci chess engines, download them, and in Fritz 14 select "Create UCI Engine", select the engine .exe you downloaded and you have a new opponent to play against. Stockfish 5 just came out, it's the strongest out there and totally free.

[yusupov]

yep, stockfish 5 is officially the strongest engine in the world. not the best for analysis still (imo) but you can't beat free.

[Ozone]

Thank you for the info. Personaly I use Fritz to train and analyse games. I'm far from 3000 ELO and both will kick my butt anyway :D

[Oblivio]

Will this version support UCI engines that can use remote/LAN analysis engines in addition to multiple CPU cores? That seems to be a strong trend in engine development; otherwise, what's the (practical) point of 128-core support? Didn't know Stockfish 5 was released; is it really stronger than Houdini? Can you post some results from 'engine matches'? If not, no big deal.. I'm about to start my own. Thanks for the info.

[Apocolyptica]

I just played a match between Stockfish 5 and Houdini 4 in a 30 game blitz match, I don't recall the final score but it was very lopsided in favor of Stockfish 5.

[yusupov]

there are official testers who run engine-engine matches that are going to have a far larger & more accurate sample size than any match you'll run on your own machine. SF is simply stronger. despite that houdini does give more balanced evals, & komodo gives imo the best, but its the weakest of the bunch tactically.

[Ozone]

http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/

[yusupov]

^^

the #4 engine on the list, gull, is also free & has since gotten stronger, it is at least at version 3.0 now. just a couple seconds to download it & SF 5 & 99% of people should be pretty well set.