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		Several lists of computer chess programs or Chess engines, which is the chess playing part of the chess program, relying on proprietary or standard protocols communicating with an external Graphical User Interfaces.
Marcel Duchamp, Portrait of Chess Players, 1911 ^[1]

Table of Contents

GUI / Protocols

Legal Attributes

Operating System

Programming Language

Special Purpose

Alphabetical List

CPW-Engine

CPW-Engine

See also

Dynamic Lists

Beside the tag "Engines", assign more property tags as appropriate, to make the engines become member of dynamic lists.

Chess Variants

Atomic Chess Engines with the tag "atomic"
Chess960 Engines with the tag "960"
Chinese Chess Engines with the tag "Xiangqi"
Crazyhouse Engines with the tag "crazyhouse"
Knightmate Engines with the tag "Knightmate"
Losing Chess Engines with the tag "losingchess"
Shatranj Engines with the tag "Shatranj"
Shogi Engines with the tag "Shogiengine"
Xiangqi Engines with the tag "Xiangqi"

GUI / Protocols

ChessBase Engines with the tag "cbengines"
UCI Engines with the tag "uciengines"
WinBoard Engines with the tag "winboardengines"
XBoard Engines with the tag "xboardengines"

Hardware

Dedicated Chess Computers with the tag "dedicated"
Mainframe Programs with the tag "mainframeprograms"
SMP Engines with the tag "smpengines"
Video Game Console Engines with the tag "gameconsole"

Legal Attributes

Clones with the tag "clones"
Commercial Engines with the tag "commercial"
GPL Engines with the tag "gplengines"
Open Source Engines with the tag "opensourceengines"
Private Engines with the tag "privateengines"

Operating System

DOS Engines with the tag "dos"
Engines for Android with the tag "android"
Linux Engines with the tag "linuxengines"
Mac OS Engines with the tag "mac"

Programming Language

Basic Engines (written in Basic) with the tag "basicengines"
C# Engines with the tag "csharpengines"
D Engines with the tag "dengine"
Delphi Engines with the tag "delphi"
Java Engines with the tag "javaengines"
Pascal Engines with the tag "pascal"

Special Purpose

Chess Problem Solving Engines with the tag "problemsolver"

Various Tags

Various Classifications
Namesake

Alphabetical List

maintained manually ...
Nevertheless, add wanted programs with the tag "engines"

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#Chess

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1K ZX Chess

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8080 Chess

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Jabba
Jaque Al Perro Guasón (Schweinehund)
JARS
Jazz
J. Biit
Jellyfish
Jester by Stéphane Nguyen
Jester by Marty Franz
JFresh
JikChess
Joanna
Joker by Marc-François Baudot and Jean-Christophe Weill
Joker by Manlio Morini
Joker by Harm Geert Muller
Jonny
Jumbo
Junior
Junior Chess = Mini Chess
Jupiter

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Table of Contents

GUI / Protocols

Legal Attributes

Operating System

Programming Language

Special Purpose

Alphabetical List

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Forum Posts

Authors and programs. The compiled list by Peter Fendrich, CCC, May 13, 1998
On naming one's chess program by Steven Edwards, CCC, March 27, 2004
Engines written in which programming language? by Andreas Herrmann, Winboard Forum, June 01, 2009
Programmers: what's the story behind the name of your engine by George Rifkin, CCC, June 17, 2011
What separates the top engines from the rest? by Graham Banks, CCC, November 17, 2012
La Máquina Preservadora. Programas de Ajedrez by Luis a, Meca Foro, February 20, 2013 (Spanish)
UCI and Winboard download page by Ed Schröder, CCC, December 19, 2015 ^[2]
Thoughts on Komodo 11, Free engines and the future by Brian Smith, CCC, May 28, 2017

External Links

Chess engines

Chess engine from Wikipedia
Category:Chess engines from Wikipedia
List of chess software from Wikipedia
Programs competing at ICGA Tournaments
Chess Engine List from Ron Murawski's Computer-Chess Wiki
Native Engine List from Ron Murawski's Computer-Chess Wiki
THE CHESS PORTAL - CHESS SOFTWARE
XB/UCI chronology from RWBC by Günther Simon
Arena Chess GUI 3.0 - Engine Links Collection » Arena
Chess Engines from ChessMosaic by Dusan Stamenkovic
Septober - Computerschach by Herbert Marquardt (program list with screenshots)
Encyclopedia - Chess engine from the Free Internet Correspondence Games Server - FICGS
Chess Engine In C - YouTube Videos by BlueFeverSoft » Vice, C
Programming A Javascript Chess Engine - YouTube Videos by BlueFeverSoft » JavaScript

Downloads

Engine Download List from Ron Murawski's Computer-Chess Wiki
Computer Chess Oldies - Downloads by Günther Höhne
Norbert's collection of old engines, compiled by Norbert Raimund Leisner, hosted by Kirill Kryukov
Jim Ablett's Winboard Chess Projects
Downloads from sdchess.ru
Downloads from RWBC by Günther Simon (Wayback Machine)
UCI and Winboard Engines by Ed Schröder ^[3]
Free Chess Downloads by Ed Schröder
Download Winboard and UCI engines by Ed Schröder
Mac Chess Engines Repository hosted by Julien Marcel » Macintosh

Misc

Jeff Beck - Big Block, Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007, YouTube Video
feat. Tal Wilkenfeld, Vinnie Colaiuta & Jason Rebello

References

^ Schach auf Ölgemälden, ChessBase Nachrichten, October 29, 2007 (German)
^ UCI and Winboard Engines by Ed Schröder
^ UCI and Winboard download page by Ed Schröder, CCC, December 19, 2015

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