Someone help me find a chess engine?

[Zubbus]

All chess sites I tried want you to become a paying member to even make a post so sod them. I have been trying to find a chess engine for over 10 years now and obviously, haven't succeeded. and I'm not about to spend £300 on something to learn it's not what I need.

All I want is something I can put all my chess logs in, and then statistically show the branching of results by moves, say,
8 times I went 4. e4 and lost all 8, and 2 times I went 4. e2 and won one, etc.

And then do the same for other logs.

I'm not even after the latest or any powerful software. Just the oldest (and cheapest) that does what I need there.

Thanks for help.

 

[DaveShack]

Here is a link to a free and open source chess database called SCID. I use it for exactly this purpose, plus I download my opponent's game archive and research their opening tendencies.

BTW an engine plays chess, where a database like Scid just stores games and makes them easy to find. The Scid distribution includes a couple of engines, and [wiki]Crafty[/wiki] is a free one I'd recommend if you don't like the ones included in Scid. With a bit of non-intuitive work, Crafty can be installed so it can be run from Scid.

 

[Riffraff]

Ok I've got a question somewhat concerning chess engines aswell so I'll stick it in here if you don't mind.

Now, I've just installed eboard and also managed to hook up a engine (gnuchess + crafty) with it. Playing against from the normal starting position is no problem. But now I want to get the computer to play against me starting from a position I had in one of my old games on chess.com. Exporting the game and opening it in eboard worked fine but I couldn't "connect" the engine with the new game - anyone got any ideas?

 

[DaveShack]

If you can save and resume one of the games you play against the computer, maybe you could make a copy of that saved game and replace the moves with moves from the downloaded game, up to the point you want to resume play.

 

[Zubbus]

Hmm my Java can't seem to run it (it ran a few things just fine though recently).