Komodo 10 Chess Engine

Komodo 10 is the latest release of this prize-winning chess engine. Komodo 10 is an improvement over all previous Komodo versions and supports multi-core processors (32- and 64-bit) and endgame tablebases.


BEFORE YOU PURCHASE: NOTE THAT KOMODO 10 FOR ANDROID REQUIRES A CHESS GUI (for recommendations, see below).
THIS INSTALLER PROVIDES THE KOMODO ENGINE IN CHESSBASE & OPEN EXCHANGE FORMAT ONLY.


AFTER PURCHASING: Verify your license by running the installed app once before using Komodo.

Additional documentation is available at http://komodochess.com/Komodo_Play_Store_Instructions_9.html .


Komodo has won highly respected engine tournaments such as TCEC and CCT. On desktop computers, Komodo 10 is approximately +50 Elo stronger than Komodo 9 on one core according to the independent IPON test as well as our own internal testing, with the gain increasing with more cores, to about 60 Elo on 4 cores based on our own tests.

Komodo 10 is expected to obtain the top rating on the majority of the best-known chess engine rating lists. Previous versions of Komodo have won highly respected engine tournaments such as TCEC and CCT.

Key features of Komodo 10:
 - Evaluation developed by a Grandmaster
 - Multi-core support (up to 64 cores)
 - Syzygy endgame tablebase support

What's new in Komodo 10:
 - Evaluation improvements
  - better assessment of mobility/activity
  - improved handling of drawish positions
  - improved understanding of attacks on the king
 - Improved search performance (much better time-to-depth)
 - Chess 960 (Fischer Random Chess) support (please note that, at this time, only one GUI ("Chess", see below) supports Chess960)
 - Persistent Hash: save and restore analysis
 - Over 100 other improvements throughout the software

Recommended chess GUIs include:
• Chess for Android (free, https://www.google.com/url?q=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.chess )
• Chess PGN Master (commercial, trial available, https://www.google.com/url?q=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalab.pgnviewer )
• ChessBase Online (commercial, https://www.google.com/url?q=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=chessbase.android.chessdb )
• Analyze This (commercial, https://www.google.com/url?q=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pereira.analysis.paid )
• Scid on the Go (free, https://www.google.com/url?q=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.scid.android )
• DroidFish Chess (free, https://www.google.com/url?q=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.petero.droidfish )
• Hawk Chess (commercial, trial available, https://www.google.com/url?q=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.digitalhawk.chess.paid )
• Chess (free, supports Chess960, http://www.google.com/url?q=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jwtc.android.chess )

For more information, please visit the Komodo Chess web site at http://www.komodochess.com/ .