Komodo for Android

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Don Dailey and Larry Kaufman released their chess engine Komodo 1.3 for Android, kindly compiled by Jim Ablett and made available at his excellent Jim Ablett's Chess Projects Website (where you can find many more engines). Below you see some screenshots importing the UCI engine into Chess for Android.


The engine is strong. The following cross-table shows the results of a few one-second-per-move matches with other engines on a Nexus S (1GHz Hummingbird) with 32MB hash and Nalimov/Gaviota/Scorpio/Robbobases endgame tablebases on SD card.

Komodo 1.3 - RobboLito 0.085e4l     2.5 - 7.5  +2/-7/=1  25.00%
           - IvanHoe-Beta v999947c  3.0 - 7.0  +2/-6/=2  30.00%
           - Stockfish 2.0          4.0 - 6.0  +2/-4/=4  40.00%
           - RobboLito 0.085g3l     5.0 - 5.0  +4/-4/=2  50.00%
           - Toga II 1.4.1SE        7.0 - 3.0  +6/-2/=2  70.00%
           - Rotor 0.6a             9.5 - 0.5  +9/-0/=1  95.00%
           - BikJump v2.1P         10.0 - 0.0 +10/-0/=0 100.00%
           - Gaviota v0.80.0.107   10.0 - 0.0 +10/-0/=0 100.00%
           - GNU Chess 5.07.170.7b 10.0 - 0.0 +10/-0/=0 100.00%
           - GreKo 8.0             10.0 - 0.0 +10/-0/=0 100.00%
           - RedQueen 0.9.5        10.0 - 0.0 +10/-0/=0 100.00%
           - ZCT-0.3.2500          10.0 - 0.0 +10/-0/=0 100.00%

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Chinmay said…
Hi Aart,

This is just a suggestion. I got interested in reading your blog but it does not have archives. It takes a little effort to go to the older posts. Can you add archives widget to make the blog better accessible?

Regards,
Chinmay
May 9, 2011 at 2:57 AM
Aart Bik said…
Hi Chinmay,
Sure, no problem. I added the archives.
May 9, 2011 at 9:09 AM
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