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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.
[8] [9] The software running Lichess and the design are mostly open source under the AGPL license [10] and other free and non-free licenses. [11] The name Lichess is a "combination of live/light/libre and chess". [12] On February 11, 2015, an official Lichess mobile app was released for Android devices. [13]
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Several third party games, such as Candy Crush Saga and Disney Magic Kingdoms, have been included as advertisements on the Start menu in Windows 10, and may also be automatically installed by the operating system. [15] [16] Windows 11 includes the Xbox app, which allows users to access the PC Game Pass video game subscription service.
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 16 November 2024, is the strongest CPU chess engine in the world with an estimated Elo rating of 3642 ...
Chessbase (for PC) is a common program for these purposes amongst professional players, but there are alternatives such as Shane's Chess Information Database (Scid) [14] for Windows, Mac or Linux, Chess Assistant [15] for PC, [16] Gerhard Kalab's Chess PGN Master for Android [17] or Giordano Vicoli's Chess-Studio for iOS. [18]
Online chess saw a spike in growth during the quarantines of the COVID-19 pandemic. [7] [8] This was due to both isolation and the popularity of Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit, which was released in October 2020. [7] [8] Chess app downloads on the App Store and Google Play Store rose by 63% after the show debuted. [9]
The domain Chess.com was set up in 1995 by Aficionado, a company based in Berkeley, California, to sell Chess Mentor, a chess-tutoring app. [7] In 2005, Internet entrepreneur Erik Allebest and partner Jarom "Jay" Severson, who met as undergraduate students at Brigham Young University, bought the domain name and assembled a team of software ...