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Chess software comes in different forms. A chess playing program provides a graphical chessboard on which one can play a chess game against a computer. Such programs are available for personal computers, video game consoles, smartphones/tablet computers or mainframes/supercomputers.
Chessbase (for PC) is a common program for these purposes amongst professional players, but there are alternatives such as Shane's Chess Information Database (Scid) [14] for Windows, Mac or Linux, Chess Assistant [15] for PC, [16] Gerhard Kalab's Chess PGN Master for Android [17] or Giordano Vicoli's Chess-Studio for iOS.
Komodo and Dragon by Komodo Chess (also known as Dragon or Komodo Dragon) are UCI chess engines developed by Komodo Chess, [1] which is a part of Chess.com. [2] The engines were originally authored by Don Dailey and GM Larry Kaufman.
[31] [32] Instead of using manually designed heuristics to evaluate the board, this approach introduced a neural network trained on millions of positions which could be evaluated quickly on CPU. On 2 September 2020, the twelfth version of Stockfish was released, incorporating NNUE, and reportedly winning ten times more game pairs than it loses ...
Dunsany's chess, also known as Dunsany's game, [1] is an asymmetric chess variant in which Black has the standard chess army and White has 32 pawns. This game was invented by Lord Dunsany in 1942. It was published the same year in Fairy Chess Review (August issue) [ 1 ] and in Joseph Boyer's Nouveaux Jeux d'Echecs Non-orthodoxes .
[31] [32] Hsu had the rights to use the Deep Blue design independently of IBM, but also independently declined Kasparov's rematch offer. [33] In 2003, the documentary film Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine investigated Kasparov's claims that IBM had cheated. In the film, some interviewees describe IBM's investment in Deep Blue as an effort to ...
Deep Blue–Kasparov, 1996, Game 1 is a famous chess game in which a computer played against a human being. It was the first game played in the 1996 Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov match, and the first time that a chess-playing computer defeated a reigning world champion under normal chess tournament conditions (in particular, standard time control; in this case 40 moves in two hours).
Levy won the bet, defeating 4.7 in a six-game match by a score of 4.5–1.5. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] The computer scored a draw in game two after getting a completely winning position but being outplayed by Levy in the endgame , and a win in game four—the first computer victory against a human master in a tournament—when Levy essayed the very sharp ...