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Users of the site can play online chess anonymously and optionally register an account to play rated games. Lichess is ad-free and all the features are available for free, as the site is funded by donations from patrons. [5] [6] [7] Features include chess puzzles, computer analysis, tournaments and chess variants.
In correspondence chess, a player may consult a chess computer for assistance, provided that the etiquette of the competition allows this. Some correspondence organizations draw a distinction in their rules between utilizing chess engines which calculate a position in real time and the use of a precomputed database stored on a computer. Use of ...
The meaning of the term "chess engine" has evolved over time. In 1986, Linda and Tony Scherzer entered their program Bebe into the 4th World Computer Chess Championship, running it on "Chess Engine," their brand name for the chess computer hardware [2] made, and marketed by their company Sys-10, Inc. [3] By 1990 the developers of Deep Blue, Feng-hsiung Hsu and Murray Campbell, were writing of ...
ChessBase is a German company that develops and sells chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates an internet chess server for online chess. Founded in 1986, it maintains and sells large-scale databases containing the moves of recorded chess games. [1] [2] The databases contain data from prior games and provide engine analyses of ...
Play free chess online against the computer or challenge another player to a multiplayer board game. With rated play, chat, tutorials, and opponents of all levels!
Torch is a chess engine created by Chess.com. [30] [31] Torch has finished second in several Chess.com Computer Chess Championship events, only behind Stockfish in each case. [32] It initially participated in the tournament under the name "Mystery". [31] [33] It is freely useable through Chess.com's analysis page. [34]
Its major new feature is a Computer Tournament mode and also includes rewritten Gamelist, FICS and Analysis widgets. ChessX [9] replaces Tcl/Tk with Qt. [8] Scidb [10] (written in Tcl/C++), implements many chess variants and many read/write formats. [8] Scid on the go is a browser for Scid database files for Android. [11]
A chess engine generates moves, but is accessed via a command-line interface with no graphics. A dedicated chess computer has been purpose built solely to play chess. A graphical user interface (GUI) allows one to import and load an engine, and play against it. A chess database allows one to import, edit, and analyze a large archive of past games.