Desert Island Chess Engines

[fern]

Champion Chess Challenger
Cstal
Ippolit
Hiarcs
Frit5z 12

Fern

[Ovyron]

If I could take just one more it would be Sjeng.

If I could take just one more it would be Komodo...

[Graham Banks]

Just for fun, if you could only take five chess engines with you to a desert island which ones would they be?

Hiarcs Paderborn, Naum 4.2, Thinker 5.4a Inert (all because of their style of play), Chessmaster 9000 and the strongest Novag dedicated.

[Nimzovik]

Hah! If I am on a dessert Island I 'm taking the Power Chess -Queen!! That voice of hers was like sultry music. "Chess is like a body of water in which a mosquito can bathe and an elephant can drown." Seems to me like u guys done drownded already!

[Michael Diosi]

Hi,


PopeyeUCI, ChestUCI, GoliathMate. Yace and Gustav, Alybadix

and of course the first three on Arena.

Michael
http://www.playwitharena.com

[wolfman]

My IMHO well balanced choice is :
Crafty,
Delfi,
Houdini,
Spark,
The King 3.50
AND I have a bonus because I'll take the Fritz GUI along ( including Fritz12).

Eran

[QED]

Assuming the island vacation would be many years long:

2. Rybka 3 Human (persistent hash for finding the Truth)
4. ChestUCI (to prove when mate is near)
1. Stockfish 1.7.1 (with compiler, to replace both eventually)
3. Robbolito (playing strength and both Robbobases)
5. Crafty (another codebase for trying things differently)

And lots of utilities (Bayeselo, cutechess-cli, QLR, ...), books, databases, whitepapers and so on.
And recent dumps of websites such as chessprogramming.wikispaces.com, en.wikipedia.org and so on.

[Kirk]

AnMon, Hiarcs, Der Bringer, Fritz, Yace

5 is too few.

Same thing if you are a record collector. You maybe have 50 albums that you enjoy and then trying to pick five or ten out of there will drive you crazy.

But it makes you think about one likes about each of those albums (or engines). Not much of an exercise if you allow too many

I admit to also being curious if there was some engines that stood out amongst the rest as favorites for engine fans

In a quick check Gaviota and Hiarcs were certainly two of then

What made you choose Der Bringer?

[Kirk]

For hardcore engine collectors just choosing just five is painful!

you got that right
5 ..sigh
ok here goes..

Fidelity Elite Premiere
Mephisto Bavaria London 030
Scisys Mark VI Philidor(with Sensory Board Attachment)
Novag Sapphire II
CXG Sphinx 50
Sandy TSB IV La Regence
Tasc R40(v 2.5)-SB 30
Conchess Monarch Victoria Plymate

thats 5

wait..i would need at least one Robot...
Fidelity Eyeball Chesster Phantom

OK..That makes 5 Regards
Steve

I have to say I chose Anaconda for nostalgia reasons. There is something to be said at the early years. I still have my old ICD Chess Reports stored somewhere

[gerold]

For hardcore engine collectors just choosing just five is painful!

you got that right
5 ..sigh
ok here goes..

Fidelity Elite Premiere
Mephisto Bavaria London 030
Scisys Mark VI Philidor(with Sensory Board Attachment)
Novag Sapphire II
CXG Sphinx 50
Sandy TSB IV La Regence
Tasc R40(v 2.5)-SB 30
Conchess Monarch Victoria Plymate

thats 5

wait..i would need at least one Robot...
Fidelity Eyeball Chesster Phantom

OK..That makes 5 Regards
Steve

I have to say I chose Anaconda for nostalgia reasons. There is something to be said at the early years. I still have my old ICD Chess Reports stored somewhere

Crafty of course. The first one i can remember working with
a lot, All the different versions, Different people who worked
on Crafty. All the different personalities of Crafty.
Many more years to come with people working with Crafty.

Best,
Gerold.