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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.
An analog chess clock. A chess clock is a device that comprises two adjacent clocks with buttons to stop one clock while starting the other, so that the two clocks never run simultaneously. The clocks are used in games where the time is allocated between two parties. The purpose is to keep track of the total time each party takes and prevent ...
This article covers computer software designed to solve, or assist people in creating or solving, chess problems – puzzles in which pieces are laid out as in a game of chess, and may at times be based upon real games of chess that have been played and recorded, but whose aim is to challenge the problemist to find a solution to the posed situation, within the rules of chess, rather than to ...
Ewald commented that "It is a good program for learning the game, playing on many different competitive levels, ease of movement, and replaying famous games." [11] Chessmaster 2000 became the first and only chess game to be the top-rated game in Computer Gaming World ' s reader poll, [12] with a score of 7.25 out of 10.
Some board games, such as chess and Go, use an adjournment mechanism to suspend the game in progress, or at least did so before the advent of computer programs that play that game better than any human. The rationale is that games often extend in duration beyond what is reasonable for a single session of play.
The third, fourth and fifth games in the match ended in draws. In the final game, in an attempt to draw the match, Kramnik played the more aggressive Sicilian Defence and was crushed, [30] losing the match 4–2. There was speculation that interest in human–computer chess competition would plummet as a result of the 2006 Kramnik–Deep Fritz ...
Grandmaster Vlastimil Hort giving a simultaneous exhibition, 1997. A simultaneous exhibition or simultaneous display is a board game exhibition (commonly chess or Go) in which one player (typically of high rank, such as a grandmaster or dan-level player) plays multiple games at a time with a number of other players.
Former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov (left) standing next to Motohiro Isozaki. Stemming from his chess matches with IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer, Kasparov has become notorious for his involvement in computer chess , which is deeply intertwined with computer shogi due to the similarity of the two games.