What is a chess engine?
A chess engine recommends moves and provides evaluation scores for chess positions. It should be used together with a chess graphical user interface (GUI), which will provide intuitive graphical interaction with the engine. What graphical user interface should I use with Rybka? The major chess graphical user interfaces (in no particular order) are: · Arena · Chessbase/Fritz · Chess Assistant · Shredder · Chess Partner From this list, Arena is free and is easily the best free chess graphical user interface available. It can be downloaded from here Q: Why do you operate like this? A: This gives us a chance to keep our customers up-to-date with the latest changes. Read more about this topic.
A chess engine is a computer program that can play the game of chess. All Chessbase programs (including Fritz, Rybka, Hiarcs etc) run under what is called the “Chessbase user interface” which means they all appear the same or similar when you run them on your computer. But the chess engine is the brain behind the scenes, and just like different human chess players, they all have different styles, and different strength & weaknesses. note: at their strongest setting, they all play at a level comparable or higher than the strongest human grandmaster.
