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On May 12, 11:36*am, "fa03el" wrote:
You mentioned about free chess programs. *Can you please suggest a couple of
free, strong chess programs, about expert level or higher, that can play
blitz chess on windows xp or 2000? *Thanks.

http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/lastupdates.htm

Not every engine on this site can play at expert level. Others can
play stronger, but can't be "dumbed down" to expert level.

Go to this site to see their approximate ratings:
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/BayesianElo_ed14.htm

Go here if you have any specific questions about any Winboard engines:
http://wbforum.vpittlik.org/

All of the above is for Winboard engines. There is another chess
engine communication protocol called UCI, which I am not very familiar
with. A little bit of googling should give you similar sites as the
ones above, but dedicated to UCI engines.

jm

Quite a few of the engines at the Ridderkerk site are also UCI - Fruit,
Toga, Spike to name 3 strong ones. A UCI engine will run under the Arena
interface as well as under one of the ChessBase commercial interfaces

Cheers - Eric

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