Where I can find free downloadable chess engines rating ELO 1600-1900

I was trying to find and download several chess programes ( engines) rating between 1600-1900 such as Storm 0.6 , Morphy 3.22, Celes 077c , Enigma 1.1.4 etc but amazingly I coudnt find any of those engines to download. Anyone can help me with that? Thank you.

It's getting harder to find old engines; There isn't really one central repository.

However, you can find all four of those engines here: https://sites.google.com/site/teambrchess/home

(Morphy 3.22 and Storm 0.6 can also be found at the Computer-Chess Wiki.)

Here's my general list of sources to hunt for chess engines:

Some links for chess engines:

http://www.computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:download:engine_download_list

http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/Jim%20Ablett/

http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/Norbert%27s%20collection/

http://www.rwbc-chess.de/download.htm

https://sites.google.com/site/chessdepotengine/chessengines

https://sites.google.com/site/teambrchess/home

https://chessowl.blogspot.com/p/downloads.html

https://adamsccpages.blogspot.com/p/also-rans-rating-list.html  (Page contains a link to a Google spreadsheet with links to engines. Many links
are broken, but some are still good.)



If a link is broken, you can sometimes find an archived link using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine:

https://archive.org/web/



You can also sometimes find links by searching the "General Topics" forum at TalkChess:

http://talkchess.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2




You can get engine logos here:

http://www.chessmosaic.com/ListOfAllEngines1.html

Prolly not, unless you can inject some uppers into the chip...

Pick some of the ones lower down the list here: http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/

Many engines also have a setting to play at a weaker level.

Would just getting a strong engine and decreasing it's strength do the job?

Thanks all for the help. And penandpapers0089, yes I have downloaded some strong programs 2400+ but it s not fun when i have to decrease their strenght and i still wouldnt know their aproximate ELO, also I d like to make a tournament with me and those 1600-1900 programes

I have no intention of advising you of an engine between 1600-1900.This is for the obvious but dubious reason that an engine that is 1700,plays 2300 moves for approx.5-10 moves then play 1100 moves for 2-5 moves,therefore doesn't play like it's true option.

Yes, it is a known problem that it is difficult to make engines play at a "human" level.  Various methods have been tried, but it does tend to result in a mix of super-strong play and blunders.

 Very much correct MGleason.

It seems it doesnt matter now because all those links above wasnt much helpfull. I didnt find anything downloadable there. And I dont think that machines on that level can play strong several moves and than make a blunder. Maybe can play strong and than make some weak moves but not a blunder. Right?

I suggest you download Lucas Chess. This is a free chess gui that contains a load of free chess engines and they can all be set to any strength you may desire. 

Many years?  Looks like 25 days to me.

I don't know what problem you had finding the downloads, but just 5 minutes ago, I downloaded all four engines from the TeamBR site. All of the engine links there are MediaFire links. If you don't have 7-Zip to unarchive (extract) the files, you can get it here:

http://www.7-zip.org/

You'll have to input the password every time you extract the .7z files, but the password is at the top of every TeamBR page in bold, red letters.

Right. People occasionally blunder, but those weaker engines won't blunder. So in that regard, these weaker engines won't play like a human.

There is one downside of playing against these weaker engines - Weaker engines are often programmed by weaker programmers, so these weaker engines tend to be buggier than stronger engines. Some of these weaker engines will have bugs that you won't want to live with.

This is probably not the answer you're looking for, but here are the 2 best options imo:

1. Use the Fritz GUI (or any other GUI that allows you to adjust the rating) and load an engine that plays DECENTLY at lower Elo settings (Stockfish, Hiarcs, Shredder, maybe even the Fritz engine itself).

2. Get one of the latest Chessmaster versions and load/edit one of the multitude of personalities there. Most are terrible at emulating human play, but some are half decent (e.g. load Fischer and decrease the engine strength from 100 to ~30-40).

Remember, it's easy to handicap almost any engine. The hard part is to make it emulate human play, and to get it to play at a fairly accurate given rating, for example 1800 +/- 50 Elo points.

EDIT: sorry, I didn't see the free part in the title :)

Agreed, I was going to suggest this. You can download Lucas chess from this site.

That's OK, not everyone is at the same level of geekiness. Yeah, as a few others have mentioned, Lucas Chess might be a good solution for you. It's just that I prefer not being constrained by LC's choice of engines and that particular GUI. However, if you don't want to get too deep in the weeds of arcane engine details, Lucas Chess is definitely a decent option:

https://www-lucaschess.rhcloud.com/

it's a very old thread but the answer can be useful so here is an idea :

Look for some torrent named " 1145 chess engine torrent "

As the name suggest there is a huge amount of engines, including Celes Morphy Enigma Storm and such. I haven't checked if all are free or allowed, but I'm almost sure it's 100 legal and clean (haven't seen any big commercial engine at first sight not certain if there is some malware but not according MSE anyhow and no way there are malware if all freeware I think).

It's a good idea to keep this torrent alive unfortunately it has not been named very cleverly but it's really a treasure of massive number of old and not-so-old engines.

Now we can find some free engine not that old but playing a normal level and more like a human than old engines with some newer engines having the option of limiting the strength, sometimes adding a personality and a favourite strategy and such, making them very human like. Maybe that is better than searching for oldies to decrease the strength.

I can't speak for others, but I'm a little leery of downloading programs when I don't know the original source. Also, I generally don't download torrent files. Anyway, I suspect I already have most of the free engines that would interest me. :)