I've heard a number of chess machines being mentioned on my time at chess.com some being: fritz, cheater, and various others and I was just wondnering how I could download or use these machines. I've typed it into google many time and havent found what I am looking for...

If anyone could give me an actual website I would be very happy as this would help me and other that are not sure and need some improvement...

thanks to all

Try the Chess.com Downloads page

If I understand correctly, you're looking for a free chess program to play against or do analysis with? The downloads section here has some free stuff:

http://www.chess.com/downloads/playing+programs+engines?page=1

I haven't downloaded any of these things yet myself, but Rybka 1.0 beta looks interesting. Also, they have Fritz 5.32 here, you might want to take a look at that. As for myself, I bought Fritz 8 a couple years ago. About a month ago I picked up a copy of Chessmaster 10 for $9.99 at Future Shop - not expensive at all, well worth it and I'd highly recommend it.

Hope that helps. 

Edit: Crosspost with kohai.

try downloading fritz as a torrent or crack open ur piggybank and go buy it

I really need a website tht isnt on chess.com

go to utorrent.com and download the software, then go to a p2p site such as isohunt.com and search fritz. e z e nuff

chessman_calum wrote:

I really need a website tht isnt on chess.com

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 I don't get it then. What exactly are you looking for? There are tons of free chess engines on the downloads page here. Perhaps I misunderstood your original question?

I downloaded the rybka beta a couple months ago.  In Fritz shootout at 9 ply, rybka will often choose different moves than the fritz 9 engine.  So Rybka gives some additional ideas.

ok.... basically my computer doesnt support downloads from this website...

you can download fritz as a torrent from piratebay.

 

If you want rybka in itself go to http://www.rybkachess.com/. It´s the official homepage.

You can get the beta version of rybka 1.0 there for free. Unfortunately, it´s a comercial chess engine, so they don´t make the full new versions available for download.

Just for you know - and don´t get surprised - rybka is an UCI chess engine, it won´t run for itself. You need to get a chess graphical user interface such as ARENA, FRITZ, SHREDDER, CHESSBASE... in order to do it.

I think ARENA is the only free chess interface of those. You can get it at the official homepage: http://www.playwitharena.com/. But, if you have some extra cash, I recommend you to get ChessBase. It´s a really good program.

Like someone said ChessMaster is very good too, but you need to do some 'tricks' to run an UCI engine in it. I don´t know about that, sorry.

Be sure to check the installation section in rybka homepage for compatibility and help info.

 

Hope it helps - and is not too late. haha

See ya.