Naum (chess)

Naum is a computer chess engine by Aleksandar Naumov ( Canada). The current version 4 was released in December 2008. The commercial distribution is "engine only" on the website of the programmer. The program supports both UCI and Winboard and can therefore be operated under different graphical interfaces. There are versions for single and multi- processor systems on Microsoft Windows or Linux. Supported endgame databases with up to five stones.

Between 2009 and 2011, Naum has fallen back to computer chess rankings by the emergence of other new, very strong engines, but keeps still in front of several well-known chess programs in the top ten, for example, in the tester group CCRL.

There is a freeware version 2.0 of September 2006, but that only supports single-processor or single core operation, as well as a version 1.8 for Palm OS by June 2006.