Chiron is a very strong chess engine. You can read more about its history and development in the About page.
Its main features are:
- playing strength of about 3240 Elo points on single core*
- parallel search for up to 512 threads
- adjustable playing strength with autolimitation of book knowledge
- support for UCI and Winboard2 communication protocols
- MultiPV and searchmoves for game analysis
- support for Chess960
- support for Polyglot, CTG and Arena opening books
- support for Syzygy, Nalimov and Gaviota tablebases
- support for Scorpio bitbases
- smart detection of pawn blockages
*CCRL 40/4 list