Released in May 2016, this software is for anyone looking for the best chess software experience for the PC with all kinds of robust features surrounding visuals, playing levels, coaching, online play, and so much more - essentially miles ahead of any free program. It's in the family of ChessBase products that include Fritz, Junior, Rybka, Hiarcs and others. If you want to get a single program that you can have fun with playing chess and supporting your learning efforts, this is the game.
Thanks to a host of extensive improvements and fine tweaking, the latest version of Komodo has again gained over 60 ELO points on its predecessor. The changes cover several areas: the evaluation function has been significantly sharpened, particualrly with respect to kin safety and endgame positions, and the search algorithm has been improved and optimized to run on multiple processors.
Komodo's intelligent and results-driven evaluations have also proven extremely effective in practice: If Komodo 10 considers its position to be advantageous, it avoids exchanges and seeks to open the position.
It has also recently demonstrated its exceptional playing strength in a series of matches against grandmasters: Komodo is unbeaten in over 50 games in which it gave its opponents a material advantage or several free moves, even beating Hikaru Nakamura 2.5 - 1.5 despite handicaps!
Komodo 10 (64-bit multi-processor engine) offers the unbeatable combination of the strongest ever chess engine running on the best and most popular user interface around. As it comes with the Fritz 15 64-bit user interface (optionally 32-bit), Komodo also offers all the training and playing functions you know from Fritz, including Premium membership to the CHessBase Web Apps with Live Database, the ChessBase video portal, our tactics server and more!
System requirements:
Thanks to a host of extensive improvements and fine tweaking, the latest version of Komodo has again gained over 60 ELO points on its predecessor. The changes cover several areas: the evaluation function has been significantly sharpened, particualrly with respect to kin safety and endgame positions, and the search algorithm has been improved and optimized to run on multiple processors.
Komodo's intelligent and results-driven evaluations have also proven extremely effective in practice: If Komodo 10 considers its position to be advantageous, it avoids exchanges and seeks to open the position.
It has also recently demonstrated its exceptional playing strength in a series of matches against grandmasters: Komodo is unbeaten in over 50 games in which it gave its opponents a material advantage or several free moves, even beating Hikaru Nakamura 2.5 - 1.5 despite handicaps!
Komodo 10 (64-bit multi-processor engine) offers the unbeatable combination of the strongest ever chess engine running on the best and most popular user interface around. As it comes with the Fritz 15 64-bit user interface (optionally 32-bit), Komodo also offers all the training and playing functions you know from Fritz, including Premium membership to the CHessBase Web Apps with Live Database, the ChessBase video portal, our tactics server and more!
System requirements:
- Minimum: Pentium III 1 GHz, 2 GB RAM, Windows XP (Service Pack 3), DirectX9, 256 MB graphics card, DVD-ROM drive, Windows Media Player 9 and Internet access for program activation, access to Playchess.com, Lets Check and program updates. For Mac users: Mac OSX 10.5.8 or higher,
- Recommended: PC Intel i5 (Quadcore), 8 GB RAM, Windows 10 or 8.1, DirectX10, 512 MB or more graphics card, 100% DirectX10-compatible sound card, Windows Media Player 11, DVD-ROM drive and Internet access for program activation, access to Playchess.com, Let's Check and program updates.