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You can order Komodo through the website (komodochess.com) or through our distribution partners. Currently, Komodo Chess accepts payments only through PayPal. If you are in a country that is not being serviced by PayPal, we have no other methods oforpayments. Please follow these steps to order:Your downloaded copy has an executable file for Microsoft Windows and binary files for Linux and OS X. You can find the files in the respective directories or folders. Please note that the bundle is compressed and you might need the appropriate program to decompress it. Recent versions of Windows can already handle this.
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Komodo 14 is expected to achieve the highest rating on the majority of the most popular chess tool ranking lists. Previous versions of Komodo have won acclaimed engine tournaments such as TCEC and CCT. In 2019, Komodo has twice won the world champion title and could call himself the "2019 World Computer Chess Champion" and "The 2019 World Chess Software Champion". And the current Komodo 14 has been markedly improved over its predecessor!
Komodo 13, the latest version of this professional chess engine, is designed to be used by chess enthusiasts and players of all skill levels. With improved support for multi-core processors and endgame tablebases, Komodo 13 is a highly-advanced chess engine.
Komodo,a chess engine by primary author Don Dailey (died at the age of 57 on November 22, 2013) and since October 2013, by Mark Lefler, supported by chess advisor and evaluation expert and Don's long time collaborator Larry Kaufman. Since 2015, opening book expert Erdogan Günes is responsible for Komodo's book moves.At the WCCC 2016 Komodo 10.x first time won the Shannon Trophy, defended by subsequent versions at the WCCC 2017, WCCC 2018 and WCCC 2019 so far. In November 2020, the Dragon by Komodo Chess was released, featuring NNUE technology.
Komodo appeared in January 2010 derived from Don's former engine Doch. It uses bitboards as internal board representation, and has a sophisticated search and a knowledge based, balanced evaluation. Komodo is a standalone chess engine supporting the UCI protocol and is available for multiple platforms and operating systems, and is therefore compatible with free and commercial UCI compliant chess graphical user interfaces and database front ends.
Komodo 8, released on September 05, 2014, was a substantial improvement over Komodo 7a, which was already rated among the top three chess engines on almost all rating lists [15]. Komodo 8 supports Syzygy Bases and is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Android, the latter immediately available for import in Chess for Android and in Chess for Glass [16]. Since mid September 2014, Komodo 8 for Windows is available as ChessBase engine, bundled with the Deep Fritz interface, Syzygy bases not included [17].