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...

Computer chess includes both hardware (dedicated computers) and software capable of playing chess. Computer chess provides opportunities for players to...

A chess rating system is a system used in chess to estimate the strength of a player, based on their performance versus other players. They are used by...

A total of seven chess players have been the chess world number one on the official FIDE rating list since it was first published in July 1971. The first...

Top Chess Engine Championship, formerly known as Thoresen Chess Engines Competition (TCEC or nTCEC), is a computer chess tournament that has been run since...

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...

The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess or esports. It is named after its...

Chess is a board game for two players. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi...

equipment Rating (chess), estimate of the strength of a player, based on performance versus other players Elo rating system, a rating system used in chess and...

to compare their Elo ratings. The best-ever Elo ratings are tabulated below. As of September 2023,[update] there are 133 chess players in history who...

commercial chess engine, but Komodo is free for non-commercial use. Dragon is consistently ranked near the top of most major chess engine rating lists, along...

tournament on which the title application was based. List of chess players by peak FIDE rating References have three different dates of birth for Abbasifar...

Advanced chess is a form of chess in which each human player uses a computer chess program to explore the possible results of candidate moves. Despite...

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...

His peak rating of 2882 is the highest in history. He also holds the record for the longest unbeaten streak at an elite level in classical chess at 125...

English linguistics and her father has a doctorate in computer engineering. Zhou began playing chess at three years old while living in Antibes in France...

ChessGenius is the name of a chess-playing computer program written by Richard Lang who has in the past written programs that have won the World Computer...

1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer. His peak FIDE chess rating of 2851, achieved...

software sale was unlike all the dedicated chess computers which at the time dominated the ratings lists. This program was marketed initially as Knightstalker...

Swedish Chess Computer Association (Swedish: Svenska schackdatorföreningen, SSDF) is an organization that tests computer chess software by playing chess programs...

11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former five-time World Chess Champion and a record two-time Chess World Cup Champion. He became the...

boards. Chess boards can be built into chess tables, or dispensed with (along with pieces) if playing mental chess, computer chess, Internet chess and sometimes...

1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight...

national chess champion and has represented Hungary at the Chess Olympiad and the European Team Chess Championship. She has a peak FIDE rating of 2393...

computer. Such programs are available for personal computers, video game consoles, smartphones/tablet computers or mainframes/supercomputers. A chess...

dedicated chess computers that were ever sold. At the height of its strength, the R30 attained a rating over 2350 on computer rating lists, higher than...

ranking of No. 8 in 2004 and peak rating of 2735 in 2005. She is the only woman to be ranked in the top ten of all chess players, first reaching that ranking...

China is a major chess power, with the women's team winning silver medals at the Olympiad in 2010, 2012, and 2014; the men's team winning gold at the...

In chess, there is a consensus among players and theorists that the player who makes the first move (White) has an inherent advantage, albeit not one...

Karjakin has been inactive, dropping out of FIDE's rating lists in June 2024. Karjakin learned to play chess when he was five years old. He joined the A.V...