Weak Engines for Android and DGT

[Carbec]

Hi,
I am looking for a way to play with an DGT board (usb), and my smartphone under Android. I have already "Chess for Android" which is great. I would now add some engines to it, preferably weak ones. Do you know of some ones ?
Thanks for tips

Philippe

[abik]

I would now add some engines to it, preferably weak ones.

Philippe,
How would you define weak? Also, some of the stronger ones have ELO settings that you can play with.

[Carbec]

Hi,

Something I can beat ! somewhere between 1200 and 1500 elo. I was stronger in the past, but that was in the past !
I know that some engines have an elo setting, but in general it don't work well. Also, they have an opening book which an chess amateur don't have. Another problem is that they play super strong , and suddenly give a piece. Im looking for something more natural, if such thing exist.

Philippe

[abik]

Back in the good old times when I was running Android tournaments myself, I made this estimated ELO list. Note, this is a very old list (2013 !) so a lot has changed since then. But it may give you some idea for the lower rated engines. For example, this puts the built-in engine of Chess for Android (really a stripped down Java version of BikJump) at 1900 and the older version of BikJump 2.1 (the C++ version compiled for Android) around 2200. The weakest engine, at that time, was olithink-531-ja at around 1700.

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1    Critter 1.6a 32-bit      2891
2    Stockfish 2.3.1          2854
3    Toga II 3.0              2763
4    Gaviota v0.86            2689
5    Komodo DEV               2670
6    Toga II 1.4.1SE          2650
7    DiscoCheck 4.0.1         2635
8    Arasan 15.2 JA           2601
9    MinkoChess arm           2593
10   Texel 1.01 32-bit        2575
11   crafty-235-android-ja    2568
12   Arasan 15.1              2564
13   Rotor 0.7                2549
14   Arasan 14.0.1            2535
15   Rodent 0.18.0            2527
16   cheng3 1.07 JA           2524
17   Daydreamer 1.75 JA       2505
18   scorpio-27-ja            2487
19   Pepito v1.59             2479
20   GarboChess 3             2467
21   Rotor 0.8                2465
22   sloppy-023-ja            2445
23   betsabe-II-130--ja       2429
24   danasah-488-ja           2422
25   phalanx-xxii-ja          2421
26   tucano104-ab             2406
27   typhoon-android-ja       2404
28   GNU Chess 6.0.2          2383
29   RedQueen 1.1.2           2367
30   greko98-ab               2363
31   Sungorus 1.4 JA          2350
32   TJchess 1.01U            2349
33   Jazz 6.40 JA             2344
34   natwarlal-014-ja         2316
35   scidlet-261b2-ja         2316
36   myrddin-086-ja           2316
37   kmtchess-121-ja          2305
38   gk-090-ja                2232
39   sjeng-112-ja             2224
40   BikJump v2.1P            2209
41   ZCT-0.3.2500             2184
42   AdroitChess 0.3          2136
43   tscp181-ab               2103
44   Diablo 0.5.1             2103
45   exchess-054-beta-ja      2101
46   zzzzzz-351-ja            2093
47   fairymax48l-ab           2076
48   surprise-43-b13-ja       2054
49   myrddin0.85j             2041
50   umax48w                  2019
51   VIRUTOR CHESS            1973
52   Chess for Android        1909
53   toledo-nanochess-2010-ja 1813
54   Simplex 0.9.8            1725
55   olithink-531-ja          1724

[abik]

You can find all the results (and download the games) from the Android Chess Engine Tournaments page. As you may have noticed, I am becoming more active with computer chess again, so perhaps I revive this tradition and start a tournament again with more recent engines (including BikJump 3.1 ).