Computer Chess Resource
UCI Chess Interfaces
- Shredder Classic - my favorite chess GUI
- Arena - a good interface that is also free - includes some great free chess engines
- Chess Partner - comes with a range of engines from Lokasoft - good for online play
- Chess Assistant - good solid database support
- Fritz et al - Fritz 7 to 9 support UCI engines
Other Commercial Chess Playing Programs
- Rybka - currently the strongest chess engine for the PC (yes, I admit it, it's stronger than Monarch)
- Hiarcs - a great attacking engine - one of my favorites
- Fruit - the commercial version of Fabian Letouzey amazing engine - incredibly solid
- SmarThink - an engine that plays positional chess and used some novel search ideas
Free Chess Programs
- Glaurung Chess - a fantastic program by Tord Romstad definitely one of my favorites
- Spike - must be one of the best positional engines.
- Fruit - versions 1.0 to 2.0 are freely available with source code
- Toga - a derivative of Fruit and extremely strong
- Arena Partner Programs - a selection of strong free engines
- Arasan - also has a great suite of over-the-board chess problems
- Colossus - by Martin Bryant of 1980 computer chess fame
- Little Goliath - fast searcher
- Pharaon - Frank Zibi's engine
- SlowChess Strong and extremely good at tactics
- Tao - an aggressive engine - fun to play against
- Yace - a classic, solid engine by Dieter Buerssner
Computer Chess Forums
Computer Chess Programming
- Verhelst - a great introduction to the basic concepts
- Bruce Moreland's site - Good general overview
- Tom's Simple Chess Program (TSCP) - a great little program that demystifies many aspect of computer chess programming
- Viper - Tord Romstad's simple engine which included parallel search code
Miscellaneous