Crafty
Sign in to saveCrafty is a chess program written by UAB professor Robert Hyatt, with development and assistance from Michael Byrne, Tracy Riegle, and Peter Skinner. It is derived from Cray Blitz, winner of the 1983 and 1986 World Computer Chess Championships. Tord Romstad, co-author of Stockfish, described Crafty as "arguably the most important and influential chess program ever".
Key facts
- Software.name
- Crafty
- Software.screenshot
- Gnuchess vs crafty.png
- Software.caption
- Crafty (black) versus GnuChess (white)
- Software.author
- Robert Hyatt, Michael Byrne, Tracy Riegle, Peter Skinner
- Software.latest release version
- 25.6
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.genre
- Chess program
- Software.license
- Proprietary, Freeware
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.craftychess.com
- Image
- Gnuchess vs crafty.png
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Crafty is a chess program written by UAB professor Robert Hyatt, with development and assistance from Michael Byrne, Tracy Riegle, and Peter Skinner. It is derived from Cray Blitz, winner of the 1983 and 1986 World Computer Chess Championships. Tord Romstad, co-author of Stockfish, described Crafty as "arguably the most important and influential chess program ever".
Crafty finished in second place in the 2010 Fifth Annual ACCA Americas' Computer Chess Championships. Crafty lost only one game, to the first-place winner, Thinker.