Chess engines with native Xboard support

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Avatar of meshka

Hello All,

Aside from Crafty, does anyone know of a strong chess engine that natively supports the xboard protocol?

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and by the way I am aware of PolyGlot but was looking for something native

Avatar of meshka

Ok I gave up. The idea was that I have CT-ART and I wanted to replace the bundled crafty with a stronger engine and crafty only speaks xboard.

So I tried polyglot and it works for the first move but because CT-ART is an incredibly buggy software, it sends totally bogus time controls to the engine. Somehow crafty knows how to deal with that (possibly by miracle of luck) while Houdini stays thinking forever from the second move on.

STOP SELLING BUGGY SOFTWARE!!!

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Here's a list of xboard engines. You might have to cross reference the list against a ratings list to find the strongest ones.

http://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/XBoard+Engines

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Ah, EscherehcsE, you beat me to it.  Laughing

Avatar of EscherehcsE

Hey, I got the worm for once! Smile

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Thank you. To me that's more proof that Google has gone down the drain. When you type "list of xboard engines" you'd expect this link to come up at the top. It's the 3rd link on bing.