Version 12 of the popular open-source chess engine Stockfish was released on Thursday. It is a major update that includes an efficiently updatable neural network and is significantly stronger than earlier versions. According to the official...
In arguably the biggest development in computer chess since AlphaZero was introduced, Stockfish (the strongest traditional chess engine) is absorbing the fledgling Stockfish+NNUE project. Update: see also our news report on the launch of Stockfi...
What happens when you combine the brute-force computing power of Stockfish with the positional understanding of AlphaZero (or Leela Chess Zero)? The chess world is about to find out! Starting July 20 at 8 a.m. Pacific / 17:00 Central Europe poss...
The reigning Chess.com Computer Chess Champion Stockfish continues to assert itself as the greatest chess engine of all time, recently picking up a win in CCC 9: The Gauntlet. Stockfish won CCC 9 over Leelenstein, a neural-network...
In a thrilling battle that came down to the final games, Stockfish won the Chess.com Computer Chess Championship this week, edging out the machine-learning engine Lc0. Stockfish scored 82.5/150 to reclaim its championship tit...
The machine-learning chess engine Lc0 won the Chess.com Computer Chess Championship last weekend, making history as the first neural-network project to take the title. Lc0, which taught itself how to play chess, is now at the game's pinnacle ...
The Chess.com Computer Chess champion Stockfish defended its sixth straight title last weekend as it bested the machine-learning engine Lc0 in a heads-up match that went the distance to the maximum number of games. Stockfish took the C...
The reigning, defending Chess.com Computer Chess champion Stockfish will once again put its title on the line in a clash with the upstart machine-learning engine Lc0. The finals of CCC 6: The Winter Classic are scheduled to begin on Saturda...
As the Computer Chess Championship moves into its next stage, an exciting new feature gives viewers the ability to predict each game's results to win cash and membership prizes. The championship will also be covered by a series of broadcast stream...
Stockfish added another Computer Chess Championship to its trophy rack, emerging as the winner of CCC 4: Bullet Brawl. The champion engine remains the winner of all Chess.com computer events, and now can claim dominance in the fastest time control...
It's no surprise that Stockfish continued its dominance in the Computer Chess Championship format as the champion engine picked up another tournament first place. Perhaps the bigger story from the Rapid Redux, however, is the emergence of an updat...
The four engines that have dominated the Computer Chess Championship since its inception will battle once again in the finals of CCC 3: Rapid Redux. CCC 3: Rapid Redux finals are now live: Watch and chat on Chess.com/CCC—features...
Stockfish, which has never lost a Chess.com computer tournament, is once again the leader at the end of stage one of the CCC 3: Rapid Redux tournament. CCC 3: Rapid Redux stage two is now live: Watch and chat on Chess.com/CCC—features ...
UPDATE, Nov. 30: The bonus tournament has now ended. Of the 56 games played from the position where Carlsen offered a draw, the computers had the following results: White wins: 3 games Black wins: 27 games Draw: 26 games ...
Twelve games and 12 draws. Now the 2018 world chess championship between Fabiano Caruana and Magnus Carlsen is in the books as the first in history without a single decisive game. Despite universal agreement from the chess engines and grand...
After two successful tournaments in the Chess.com Computer Chess Championship, we're ready to power up the world's best chess engines again in CCC 3: Rapid Redux. Based on fan feedback, the new championship will feature a smaller field of 16 str...
The highest-rated chess engine of all time added another title to its resume this week as Stockfish decisively won the Chess.com Computer Chess Championship 2: Blitz Battle. The victory comes six weeks after Stockfish won the first revamped CCC:...
Computer chess fans, get ready for some faster games between your favorite engines. The Chess.com Computer Chess Championship returns with a greatly expanded field and thousands of games to determine the best blitz chess engines in the world.&nb...
The chess engine Stockfish proved its might with a decisive victory over Houdini in the 200-game final match of the Computer Chess Championship's first event, the Rapid Rumble. Stockfish scored 120/200 in a match that was never in...
Proving that it's still the biggest fish in the sea of computer chess, the Stockfish engine cruised to the top spot in the Chess.com Computer Chess Championship, scoring an astounding 51/70 against the world's top chess engines in stage two of the...
The first stage of the first Computer Chess Championship event is in the books, and after 562 official games Stockfish tops the leaderboard with an excellent score of 39/46, the first of eight engines to advance to stage two. The two other ...
The machine-learning engine Lc0 (nicknamed "Leela") is in undefeated clear fourth place behind the world's top three traditional chess engines—Houdini, Komodo, and Stockfish—halfway through the Computer Chess Championship double-r...
The Chess.com Computer Chess Championship (CCCC) is back with a new, always-on format and more chess engines as Chess.com makes a major investment in the future of computer chess. Update: CCCC 1: Rapid Rumble is now live! Watch and cha...
The powerful, open-source chess engine Stockfish narrowly beat out two strong commercial engines to win the first Chess.com Computer Chess Championship this week. Stockfish placed clear first in the 10-engine round robin to reach the superfin...
Update July 11, 2017 -- The National Appeals Committee (NAC) of the Canadian Chess Federation (CFC) has denied the appeal by IM Nikolay Noritsyn. According to CFC President Vladimir Drkulec, the vote was 3-1 to reject Noritsyn's appeal. "It wa...
