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Fritz is a German chess program originally developed for Chessbase by Frans Morsch based on his Quest program, ported to DOS, and then Windows by Mathias Feist. With version 13, Morsch retired, and his engine was first replaced by Gyula Horvath's Pandix, and then with Fritz 15, Vasik Rajlich's Rybka.
A chess engine generates moves, but is accessed via a command-line interface with no graphics. A dedicated chess computer has been purpose built solely to play chess. A graphical user interface (GUI) allows one to import and load an engine, and play against it. A chess database allows one to import, edit, and analyze a large archive of past games.
Krita – Digital painting, sketching and 2D animation application, with a variety of brush engines; LazPaint – Lightweight raster and vector graphics editor, aimed at being simpler to use than GIMP; LightZone – Free, open-source digital photo editor software application. RawTherapee – Digital image workflow management aimed at RAW photo ...
The meaning of the term "chess engine" has evolved over time. In 1986, Linda and Tony Scherzer entered their program Bebe into the 4th World Computer Chess Championship, running it on "Chess Engine," their brand name for the chess computer hardware [2] made, and marketed by their company Sys-10, Inc. [3] By 1990 the developers of Deep Blue, Feng-hsiung Hsu and Murray Campbell, were writing of ...
Free and open-source software portal Video games portal This is a category of articles relating to chess games which can be freely used, copied, studied, modified, and redistributed by everyone that obtains a copy: " free software " or " open-source software ".
PyChess is a free software chess client developed for GNU.It allows users to play offline or online via the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS). PyChess also incorporates a built-in chess engine, which in contrast to most other chess AIs is written in the Python language and focuses more on fun of play than raw strength.
ChessBase is a German company that develops and sells chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates an internet chess server for online chess. Founded in 1986, it maintains and sells large-scale databases containing the moves of recorded chess games.
Most contemporary chess engines are command-line programs which generate chess moves, but which require a separate chess graphical user interface in order to display a chessboard. The main article for this category is Chess engine .