In comes the blasphemy of Leelafish.
Komodo or Stockfish or Houdini ?
Stockfish is the strongest of the three engines you list but it's doubtful if it is the best engine currently available.
To run Lc0 and variants efficiently you'll need a GPU.
Not on the same kit I don't believe, at least not in endgames sans EGTB. Lc0 is totally pathetic compared with SF8 if it's not given its few thousand extra processors in the form of a video card. (I suspect SF8 is also pretty pathetic compared with SF10.)
SF10 isn't that great, the best SF's you can get are the development versions found here http://abrok.eu/stockfish/.
Explaining My Experience:
Komodo:
It is very strong engine. It's positional understanding is amazing. Where other sees draw, it still sees something to manipulate. Even in quiet position. It's hash system help to you preserve analysis for later.
For Complex ending and opening theory ,komodo is preferable. For big project with more than 8 cores, Komodo is highly recommended.
Houdini:
Once upon a time , Houdini was only reliable engine for it's deep accuracy and rational evaluation system. When other engines were flawed, it was 90% tactically accurate. For early middle games, Houdini is preferable. Because more you go on against it, it sharpens the position both tactically and positionally. You are left with limited options with strange dilemma.
Stockfish:
It is an open source and free engine. It is tactically monster. From very early of the game, it aims at mate attempt. Once you get weak in the king side, no one can save you. It is very aggresive and dynamic in playing style. Sometimes it sees move, other can't see. It is small in size but very fast and one of the Strongest.
Thanks for sharing. What do you recommend for hexacore laptops or i9-9750H?
I did a chess game with both Stockfish and Komodo where I pick the opening. Komodo ended up winning. Komodo as the white pieces and Stockfish as the black pieces.
I did a chess game with both Stockfish and Komodo where I pick the opening. Komodo ended up winning. Komodo as the white pieces and Stockfish as the black pieces.
In all likelihood you either gave them very little time, or the engines were misconfigured.
45...c5? is a bad blunder in an equal position.
Has anyone notice though that when you turn down the level that it will play “weird” chess by making a random move that serves no purpose and which a human would not play?
I think they limit the CPU usage thus capping the depth or time taken. Or they intentionally choose 6 or 7th best move maybe.