Komodo 13 is the latest release of this prizewinning chess engine. Komodo 13 is an improvement over all previous Komodo versions and supports multicore processors 32 and 64bit and endgame tablebases.
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BEFORE YOU PURCHASE: NOTE THAT KOMODO 13 FOR ANDROID REQUIRES A CHESS GUI for recommendations see below.
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AFTER PURCHASING: Verify your license by running the installed app once before using Komodo.
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Komodo 13 is an improvement over all previous Komodo versions. Komodo supports multicore computers and endgame tablebases. Komodo has won many highly respected engine tournaments multiple times such as TCEC CCT and the World Computer Chess Championship the World Blitz and the World Rapid championships.
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Download Emulator of your Choice and Install it by following Instructions given:
- As you have Downloaded and Installed Bluestacks Emulator, from Link which is provided above.
- Now, After the installation, configure it and add your Google account.
- Once everything is done, just open the Market(Play Store) and Search for the Komodo 13 Chess Engine.
- Tap the first result and tap install.
- Once the installation is over, Tap the App icon in Menu to start playing.
- That’s all Enjoy!
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Faster, smarter, stronger. These three words summarize Komodo‘s evolution, as it runs even faster on multi-processors, uses all the software speeds gained to add more knowledge, and defeats previous number one engines by unheard of scores.
Komodo is a chess program that is different from the rest. Its search makes greater use of extensions than any other top engine, which allows Komodo to often see deeper than the others, even if it is displaying a slightly lower search depth. The evaluation differs from its main rivals because it represents a blend of both automated tuning and the judgment of a grandmaster and computer expert (Larry Kaufman). Fully automated evaluations are subject to rather large sample error, and applying some chess judgment is beneficial, both in results and in the reasonableness of reported evaluations. Komodo is primarily known for superb positional play.
Of course it is also one of the the top few engines in tactical strength, but the programmers have not been willing to sacrifice positional play just to score better on tactical problem sets. All good engines are far stronger tactically than any human player, but when positional judgment is involved, top grandmasters are still superior. Therefore it makes sense to emphasize positional play rather than tactical skill; it is better to improve one’s weakest point rather than just to further improve the strongest feature.
Komodo is especially useful for opening analysis, because its grandmaster programmer has always made sure that the program’s evaluations agree in general with accepted theory. Komodo also excels in the evaluation of positions with material imbalance, which it handles more correctly than other top engines. The endgame of Komodo has been improved by the use of Syzygy tablebases (not included), which provide only the most essential information to save time and memory. Another unique feature of Komodo is its superior performance when using eight or more cores.
Komodo Chess 9 includes:
- The Komodo 9.01 engine, which can support up to 64 processor cores and 16 GB of hash memory;
- The Deep Fritz 64-bit program interface (+ 32 bit program interface);
- ChessBase PREMIUM Account: six months online access to Playchess.com, ChessBase live database, Let’s Check, Engine Cloud, Tactics Training.
System requirements
Minimum: Pentium III 1 GHz, 2 GB RAM, Windows Vista, XP (Service Pack 3), 7/8, DirectX9, 256 MB graphics card, DVD-ROM drive, Windows Media Player 9 and Internet access for program activation, access to Playchess.com, Let’s Check and program updates.
Recommended: PC Intel i7 (Quadcore), 4 GB RAM, Windows 8.1, DirectX10, 512 MB 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.
Price: Komodo Chess 9 including six months ChessBase Premium account: €79.90 (€59.93 on our special rebate day). Update from Version 8: €39,90 including six months ChessBase Premium (€29.93 on rebate day)
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Komodo 9 is a substantial improvement over Komodo 8, which was already rated among the top three chess engines on almost all rating lists. Komodo 9 is approximately +50 Elo stronger than Komodo 8 on one core according to the independent IPON test and our own internal testing, with the gain increasing to about +60 Elo on 4 cores. Gains come from improved search, evaluation, and time management, as well as more efficient use of multiprocessing.
Komodo is two-time TCEC champion, the most prestigious online computer chess event, and has also won several CCT events.
Komodo supports Syzygy tablebases and is available for Windows, Linux, Mac and Android.
Features
- Evaluation developed by a Grandmaster
- Multi-core support (up to 64 cores)
- Syzygy endgame tablebase support
What’s new in Komodo 9
- 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
- Persistent Hash: save and restore analysis
- Over 100 other improvements throughout the software
What is the ‘Komodo 9 + one year subscription’?
For $99.97 you will get Komodo 9 and all versions of Komodo we publish within one year of your order. Also, you get all previous versions of Komodo.
Compatable GUIs
- – Chessbase
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- – Fritz
- – Aquarium
- – Chess Assistant
- – Hiarcs Chess Explorer
- – Shredder (Classic)
- – Arena
Available for Windows, Linux and Mac
an Android version is available from Google.
an Android version is available from Google.
minimum requirement for Mac users: OSX 10.5.8
Supports up to 64 cores!
(note: Komodo does not include a ‘chessboard’. See Installation instructions.)
“I am deeply moved by the style of Komodo. In my opinion it’s the perfect combination between computer accuracy and human positional understanding. I get the feeling it’s taken positional understanding to the next level. After such an impressive performance I am going to test Komodo in my future work, especially in very positional play, and am really looking forward to working with it.”
– GM Boris Avrukh
“I am extremely impressed by Komodo’s play. I watched and analyzed every game and it was absolutely flawless positional chess, the likes of which has never been seen before by an engine… or human. Komodo clearly outplayed the other programs in the TCEC tournament.”
– GM Roman Dzindzichashvili
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* Komodo 9 for Windows, Linux and OSX *
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Komodo 9 is an improvement over all previous Komodo versions and supports multi-core computers and endgame tablebases.
Komodo has won highly respected engine tournaments such as TCEC and CCT. Komodo 9 is approximately +50 Elo stronger than Komodo 8 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.
Key features of Komodo 9:
– Evaluation developed by a Grandmaster
– Multi-core support (up to 64 cores)
– Syzygy endgame tablebase support
What’s new in Komodo 9:
– 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
– Persistent Hash: save and restore analysis
– Over 100 other improvements throughout the software
If you have Windows
The executables for Windows are in the /Windows subdirectory. You will find two versions:
komodo-9-64bit.exe
komodo-9-32bit.exe
We recommend using the 64-bit version as long as your version of Windows supports it.
If you have Linux
The binaries for Linux are in the /Linux subdirectory. You will find two versions:
komodo-9-linux : This version is optimized for present day (2105) machines
komodo-9-linux-generic : Use this version if komodo-9-linux does not work
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Note that komodo-9-linux-generic computes the same moves but is slower. Both versions are 64-bit.
The program must have execute permissions to run. You can set these permissions with this command:
$ chmod +x komodo-9-linux*
If you have Mac OS X
The binary for Mac OS X is in the /OSX subdirectory.
komodo-9-64-osx
The file must have execute permissions to run. If you have trouble getting your chess GUI to load Komodo 9, you can try setting these permissions from the Terminal.app with this command (run from the same directory as the Komodo OS X executable):
$ chmod +x komodo-9-64-osx
Android Versions
Due to huge variations in hardware and OS versions, an Android version is no longer included in the package. Here is a link to the Google Play Store for Komodo 9:
The Google Play Store automatically detects and installs the appropriate version for your hardware and Android version.
HOW TO RUN
Komodo is a chess engine. It calculates moves but does not include a chessboard. The Komodo web site suggests a few ‘chessboard’ programs (aka GUI) which can be used with Komodo, some of them open source and of very high quality.
Komodo’s settings can be changed from the GUI. We will explain the non-standard settings now. See komodo-settings.txt and setHash.txt for additional information.
Table Memory
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This parameter determines how much memory, in megabytes, Komodo will allocate to various internal tables such as the pawn structure hash table, evaluation cache and others. If you allocate too much memory it can negatively impact your performance and if you allocate too little it can also negatively impact your performance. The default value of 64 is probably close to optimal on most machines cira 2013 but you may want to experiment with lowering (or raising) this value if you have an entry level machine or a particularly high performance machine.
Use Lmr
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LMR (Late Move Reductions) is a search technique that is designed to aggressively prune moves from the search tree so much deeper depths can be obtained. However this can sometimes miss important moves. Komodo gives you the option to turn this on or off, along with another parameter, reduction, to adjust it. In general Komodo will play much stronger with this option turned on, but one might want to experiment with turning it off in order to see if a much shallower, but more thorough search might help in some position.
Null Move Pruning
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Like LMR, this is also a technique to aggressively prune moves from the search tree. Komodo plays much stronger with this turned ON, but occasionally things can be missed, especially very deep threats or zugzwang positions. This option allows you to experiment in the case that you have a difficult position which cannot be resolved and want to see if a much shallower, but more thorough, search would help.
Overhead ms
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This is designed to compensate for slow user interfaces or slow internet connections, where a fraction of a second can be lost in the processing and transferring of information back and forth from the engine to the interface. The value is in milliseconds (1/1000th of a second). This should probably be left alone unless you see the program starting to forfeit games due to exhausting its time. If you see such time forfeits, increase this value. The default is 30.
Drawscore
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In some programs this is called the “contempt factor” and defines the value of a draw. The default is -7 which means that the program will have a slight tendency to avoid a draw, even if its position is slightly worse. A value of -100 would cause Komodo to avoid a draw unless it was at least a pawn down. A value of 100 would cause Komodo to seek draws unless it was at least a pawn ahead. In the endgame Drawscore is automatically brought closer to zero since the chance of winning from an inferior position is much lower in the endgame.
Time Usage
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This provides the ability to manipulate Komodo’s time control heuristics, to make it allocation either more aggressively or less aggressively. The default is 0 which is what we believe is the ideal setting but remains to be tested. You can make it play faster by using a negative number or you can make it allocate time more aggressively by setting it to a positive value. The range of values is between -9 and +9. It’s very unlikely extreme values will be play well, so we suggest experimenting with relatively modest changes to the default.
Threads
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The default number of threads is 1, so for multi-core machines you will want to change this value. For ultimate performance we suggest setting this to the number of “real” cores on your machine.
For example, on an i7 with hyper-threading, you typically have 4 “real” cores and 4 hyper-threaded or virtual cores. The operating system will probably report 8 cores but we recommend setting Komodo for 4 threads in this case.
Hash
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This defines the maximum amount of memory to use for the transposition table – a major factor in the performance of modern chess programs. The default is set to 128 (in megabytes) which is probably more than adequate for standard use. However, see the document setHASH.txt for more specific information on how this should be set for ultimate performance. All 64 bit versions allow up to 64000 megabytes (64 GB) to be allocated. The Windows 32 bit version limits this to 2048 megabytes due to hardware and operating system limitations.
Tablebase support
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Komodo supports Ronald de Man’s ‘Syzygy’ endgame tablebases. Endgame tablebases can be used to provide absolute knowledge about chess positions in which only a few pieces are left on the board (at the time of this writing, the Syzygy bases support up to 6-man positions [including the kings]).
The Syzygy tablebases are “Distance to Zero” (DTZ) tablebases. This means that they report, in addition to a definitive win/draw/loss (WDL) score, the distance to the zeroing of the 50-move draw clock. Unlike other endgame tablebases which report Distance to Mate (DTM), the Syzygy bases won’t always report the fastest win from a particular endgame position, but you can be confident that the WDL score (and moves) provided by a tablebase probe are accurate.
How to get the Syzygy tablebases: at the moment, the best way to get the required files is via the file-sharing service BitTorrent (on OSX, Transmission is a good client, on Windows and Linux, Vuze). The necessary .torrent files can be found at http://oics.olympuschess.com/tracker/index.php. You should get at least the 3-4-5-man set (approx. 2 GB). The 6-man set is an additional approx. 138 GB large and will take a while to download. The 3-4-5-man set is also available for direct download from:
http://chess.cygnitec.com/tablebases/syzygy/.
Installing the Syzygy tablebases: create a folder on your computer’s hard drive and place the fully-downloaded .rtbw (WDL files) and .rtbz (DTZ files) in it. If you have an SSD drive, we recommend that you place the WDL files in a folder on that drive, especially if you are using the 6-man bases.
Understanding the Syzygy tablebase output: if the number of pieces on the board is less than or equal to the ‘Syzygy Probe Limit’ [see below] or the number of pieces supported by your installation of the Syzygy bases, whichever is less, Komodo will report a score which can be interpreted as a win, draw or loss.
A score of +317.99 indicates a tablebase win, while a score of -317.99 indicates a loss. A score of +0.02, 0 or -0.02 indicates a draw (+/- 0.02 is a draw which would be a win/loss if the 50-move rule were not in effect). In a tablebase position, Komodo will immediately return this score with a depth of 9.
Syzygy tablebase options: Komodo has a number of UCI options to control its use of the tablebases.
Use Syzygy: when on (default), Komodo will try to use the Syzygy tablebases specified in the ‘SyzygyPath’ option (see below). When off, Komodo will not attempt to load the bases.
SyzygyPath: this defines an absolute path on your computer to the tablebase files. On Windows, multiple paths can be separated with a semicolon (;) character. On OSX and Linux, multiple paths should be separated with the colon (:) character. For instance,
on Windows
“C:/Tablebases/Syzygy”
“C:/Tablebases/Syzygy;D:/SyzygyWDL”
on OSX and Linux
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“/home/me/syzygy”
“/home/me/syzygy:/media/ssd/wdl”
Syzygy Probe Depth: this determines the depth at which tablebases will be probed during search (note that the root position will always be probed. If ‘Use Syzygy’ is enabled and the number of pieces on the board is less than or equal to the ‘Syzygy Probe Limit’ [see below] or the number of pieces supported by your installation of the Syzygy bases, whichever is less). A higher number means that Komodo will wait longer to begin probing the tablebases for any particular search. The default depth is 2 half-plies.
Syzygy Probe Limit: this determines how many pieces need to be on the board before Komodo begins probing (even at the root). By default, this is set to 6 (the current upper limit of the Syzygy tablebases). Of course, if you have only the 3-4-5-man set, Komodo will only begin probing the bases when a 5-man position arises.
Syzygy 50 Move Rule: when on (default), Komodo will respect the 50-move rule in its tablebase evaluation (a won position which requires more than 50 moves without a pawn move or capture to win will be scored as a draw). When off, Komodo will ignore the 50-move rule in its evaluation (the same position would receive a winning score).
Selectivity
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You can adjust how many moves Komodo prunes using the “Selectivity” parameter. Higher values will encourage Komodo to prune more moves at low search depths, leading to a deeper overall search at an increasing risk of missing some moves. The default is 80.
Reduction
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This controls how deeply Komodo searches. Higher “Reduction” values will cause Komodo to reduce parts of the tree faster, increasing overall search depth but possibly missing some good moves. The default is 0.
King Safety
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This controls how highly Komodo score king safety. The higher the value, the greater the effects of attacks on the king in Komodo’s evaluation. The default is 65.
Persistent Hash
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This is useful for long analysis. It allows you to save the current Hash Table to your hard drive, then reload it later. First, set a name for the file in the “Hash File Name” option. Next, stop the search, then click the “Save Hash to File” button. To later reload the saved information, first make sure the “Hash File Name” is for the file you want, then click “Load Hash from File”. Once it loads, you may continue analysis. You must make sure the current hash file name is the same as what was used when you saved the file. Note that hash files can be very large and can take a lot of time to save and load, so make sure you have enough disk space to use them.
Credits
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Authors: Larry Kaufman, Don Dailey and Mark Lefler.
We wish to thank Jeremy Bernstein for his fine work in adding Syzygy tablebase support to Komodo. We also wish to thank our webmaster Jesse Gersenson who makes us look good on the web. And another big thanks to all the people that have offered to test and run matches with Komodo.