Computer chess includes both hardware (dedicated computers) and software capable of playing chess. Computer chess provides opportunities for players to...
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Blue was a customized IBM RS/6000 SP supercomputer for chess-playing. It was the first computer to win a game, and the first to win a match, against a...
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World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) was an event held periodically from 1974 to 2024 where computer chess engines compete against each other. The...
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Additionally, the platform offers play against chess engines, computer analysis, chess puzzles, and teaching resources. Chess.com said it reached 100 million users...
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chess engines in the world for several years; it has won all main events of the Top Chess Engine Championship (TCEC) and the Chess.com Computer Chess...
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documents the progress of significant human–computer chess matches. Chess computers were first able to beat strong chess players in the late 1980s. Their most...
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In computer chess, a chess engine is a computer program that analyzes chess or chess variant positions, and generates a move or list of moves that it...
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fields such as mathematics, computer science, and psychology. One of the goals of early computer scientists was to create a chess-playing machine. In 1997...
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Computer Chess is a 2013 independent comedy-drama film written and directed by Andrew Bujalski. The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival,...
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After an eight-year hiatus, the Computer Olympiad was revived by bringing it into the Mind Sports Olympiad. The chess competition was a special event...
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Mephisto was a line of chess computers sold by Hegener & Glaser (H+G). In addition to integrated travel and sensory computers, they also sold a line of...
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Deep Thought was a computer designed to play chess. Deep Thought was initially developed at Carnegie Mellon University and later at IBM. It was second...
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detector. Outline of chess § History of chess Chess in the arts Computer chess History of chess engines List of chess historians List of chess variants List...
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computer. Such programs are available for personal computers, video game consoles, smartphones/tablet computers or mainframes/supercomputers. A chess...
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Advanced chess is a form of chess in which each human player uses a computer chess engine to explore the possible results of candidate moves. With this...
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Solving chess consists of finding an optimal strategy for the game of chess; that is, one by which one of the players (White or Black) can always force...
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Leela Chess Zero (abbreviated as LCZero, lc0) is a free, open-source chess engine and volunteer computing project based on Google's AlphaZero engine. It...
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International Master of chess who plays for Scotland, and a businessman. He is noted for his involvement with computer chess and artificial intelligence...
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of chess programs during games. Chess.com's Daily Chess strictly prohibits the use of chess engines and all winners' games are subject to computer analysis...
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Top Chess Engine Championship, formerly known as Thoresen Chess Engines Competition (TCEC or nTCEC), is a computer chess tournament that has been run since...
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put out a magazine Computer-schach und Spiele covering the emerging hobby of computer chess. In 1985, Friedel invited then world chess champion Garry Kasparov...
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In 1912 Leonardo Torres Quevedo built the first real instance of a chess computer, an automaton named El Ajedrecista. Unlike the Mechanical Turk, El Ajedrecista...
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Fritz throughout the rest of the world. In 1995, Fritz 3 won the World Computer Chess Championship in Hong Kong, beating an early version of Deep Blue. This...
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a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of...
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Anti-computer tactics are methods used by humans to try to beat computer opponents at various games, most typically board games such as chess and Arimaa...
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The Internet Chess Club (ICC) is a commercial Internet chess server devoted to the play and discussion of chess and chess variants. ICC had over 30,000...
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Games. Since the 1960s, chess computers have occasionally entered human tournaments, but this is no longer common, because computers would defeat humans and...
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Ken Thompson (redirect from Ken Thompson (computer programmer))
the UTF-8 encoding, and his work on computer chess that included the creation of endgame tablebases and the chess machine Belle. He won the Turing Award...
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such as FIDE, the US Chess Federation (USCF or US Chess), International Correspondence Chess Federation, and the English Chess Federation. Most of the...
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are also chess world championships in rapid, blitz, correspondence, problem solving, Fischer random chess, and computer chess. The game of chess in its...
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