Fire
Fire is a chess engine by Norman Schmidt. Initially called Firebird, and later renamed to Fire due to a trademark naming conflict. It was originally released as open source, but later the sources were later closed.
Best Chess Engines
If you want to analyse your chess games, it can be very useful to use a strong chess engine to calculate the positions next to you. We listed the top 5 strongest chess engines currently available according to Computerchess.org.uk.
Stockfish
Stockfish is currently the only engine that stands a chance against Komodo. With only 30 rating points separating them, Stockfish is a great option for anyone since it's 100% free and open source.
Houdini
Houdini is a commercial engine and for some time used to be the strongest engine in the world but had to later give up the spot to Komodo. Still a formidable engine!
Shredder
Shredder has risen to the top 5 of chess engines with it's great results.
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