Hi,

Does anyone know of a chess engine that plays very conservatively but reasonably strongly (between 2200-2500+) ? 

Actually, I'm after an engine that plays very defensively.

I don't know any offhand, but with some engines you can tweak the values it gives to certain things. Max king safety and pawn structure and it should play more defensively. 

fritz 5 is for free - and u can adjust its settings like bondiggity said

 fritz 5 is not free

http://www.chess.com/download/view/fritz-532

"There never was a legal download of a full Fritz program, not even for such an old version like Fritz 5.32.",  Steffen Giehring info@chessbase.com

"The program was given away free by the German magazine, PC go.  The installation language is German, but the program itself is identical to the original Fritz 5.32."

Hi, rybka 2 is free, you can see it's analysis and watch online mtel masters at http://chessbomb.com. This engine is only beaten by rybka 3.

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