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Stockfish has been one of the strongest chess engines in the world for several years; [3] [4] [5] it has won all main events of the Top Chess Engine Championship (TCEC) and the Chess.com Computer Chess Championship (CCC) since 2020 and, as of March 2025, is the strongest CPU chess engine in the world with an estimated Elo rating of 3642, in a ...
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 was spearheaded by Gary Linscott, a developer for the Stockfish chess engine, and adapted from the Leela Zero Go engine.
In the computer chess community, Komodo developer Mark Lefler called it a "pretty amazing achievement", but also pointed out that the data was old, since Stockfish had gained a lot of strength since January 2018 (when Stockfish 8 was released). Fellow developer Larry Kaufman said AlphaZero would probably lose a match against the latest version ...
Efficiently updatable neural networks were originally developed in computer shogi in 2018 by Yu Nasu, [61] [62] and had to be first ported to a derivative of Stockfish called Stockfish NNUE on 31 May 2020, [63] and integrated into the official Stockfish engine on 6 August 2020, [64] [65] before other chess programmers began to adopt neural ...
BBC award-winning journalists, from their book Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time (HarperCollins, 2004): Fischer, some will maintain, was the outstanding player in chess history, though there are powerful advocates too for Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, and Kasparov. Many chess players ...
There was a glimmer of hope for Stockfish when it won games 43 and 45 to narrow the gap to 3 points, but Leela scored a decisive victory in games 61 and 62, outplaying Stockfish with both the white and black pieces in a Trompowsky Attack. The final third of the superfinal was more evenly contested, but Leela only conceded losses when Stockfish ...
In many ways AlphaZero served not only as a breakthrough for chess computing, but for the AI world in general. Since 2017, the presence of neural networks in the worlds top chess engines has only grown. All top engines nowadays, Leela Chess Zero, Stockfish, and Komodo have all included neural networks
In November 2017, Chess.com held an open tournament, called the Chess.com Computer Chess Championship (CCCC, later CCC), with the ten strongest chess engines, with $2,500 in prize money. The top-two engines competed in a "Superfinal" tournament between the two finalists – Stockfish and Houdini .