The Arena Engine System

Arena was designed as a multi-engine system.

This means that the GUI and the chess playing program are strictly separated from each other. They communicate with a defined interface with each other. In Arena it is possible to run eight chess engines in parallel, e.g. for analysis.

Therefore Arena offers ideal possibilities to run a lot of engines under a single program.

Arena supports two different types of protocols:

  • UCI Engines

  • WinBoard Engines