What happened to Komodo Chess?

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ElysiumKing
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What happened to Komodo Chess?

Post by ElysiumKing »

As some of you may know, Komodo Chess has been taken down from Playstore a long time ago and recently, just taken down from their website for other versions too... and it is SAD. I have been a fan and I purchased versions 8, 9, 10, 11 and 13 for Android, weirdly enough, I am able somehow to use just the 13.1 and 9, the others cannot be verified as licensed for some reason, anyone knows a fix for this?, Can @Larry kauffman help me, I really love the beauty of having my Android engines and I know Larry said that to compile Komodo 14 and + for android was not worthy and not so what, but I really would love to have the versions I purchased, even if I have to use some kind of fix, I am not piracying anything I bougth them :(. I see some engines are like packed in .so files, is there some expert here that can explain if they can be converted to be used as UCI engines, I bought Fritz and Shredder too and would love to use them outside of there enviroment.

Anyone can help?

Also, Are there any compilations for Junior Yokohama and Shredder for android?, As U can see I love engines!!


Thanks!!!
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Re: What happened to Komodo Chess?

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Komodo (Dragon by Komodo) was purchased by chess.com, who've never done anything with it as far as I'm aware.

The co-authors, Larry Kaufmann and Mark Lefler are enjoying retirement from chess engine programming.
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Re: What happened to Komodo Chess?

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Graham Banks wrote: Mon Aug 03, 2026 12:08 am Komodo (Dragon by Komodo) was purchased by chess.com, who've never done anything with it as far as I'm aware.

Some kind of slimmed down version of it was compiled to WASM (WebAssembly) and runs in your browser as the chess.com analysis engine.

WASM is compiled code and runs much more quickly than JavaScript - the standard browser language.
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