Can someone recommend...

[Werewolf]

A chess engine which is 100% stable, UCI so it works in chessbase, a bit weaker than Fritz 5.32 (around 2300-2400 elo ideally) ? I'd prefer an engine which tries to win and doesn't play too defensively.

I'm starting a new project. I want to test a number of top engines to see how many moves, on average, they take to checkmate a 2300 elo engine.

I bet the highest ranked program (Rybka etc) won't necessarily be the best at this.

[rightrook]

All the engines in Arena work great for me....my favorite is still

Ruffian 1.0.5.



regards

Robert

[rightrook]

Oh......now there is Ruffian 2.....etc.

Probably should work great...!!

http://www.lokasoft.nl/ruffian.htm

[Werewolf]

Alas, on that website it says Ruffian 2 is no longer available. It might have been a bit too strong for what I wanted.

[Werner]

Try Arion 1.7

http://transversale.fr/Arion/Arion.htm

it is 2328 in CEGT list
it is uci only

[Werewolf]

Thanks!