Komodo 8 Chess Engine

NOTE: Komodo 9 is now available from https://www.google.com/url?q=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.komodochess.komodo9 . The price of Komodo 8 has been reduced to reflect this.

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Komodo 8 is the Android release of this prize-winning chess engine. Komodo has finished first and second in the last two TCEC championships, the most prestigious online computer chess event, and also won the last two CCT events.

BEFORE YOU PURCHASE: NOTE THAT KOMODO 8 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 8 obtained the top rating on the majority of the best-known chess engine rating lists. Earlier versions of Komodo have won highly respected engine tournaments such as TCEC and CCT.

Some features in Komodo 8:

 - multi-core support

 - evaluation improvements

  - handling of closed positions

  - king safety

  - pawn structure

 - search improvements

 - many others

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, 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/ .