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Stockfish (chess)

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Stockfish is a free and open-source UCI chess engine, available for various desktop and mobile platforms. [1]

49 relations: Alpha–beta pruning, AlphaZero, Amazon Web Services, Android (operating system), Bitboard, C++, Central processing unit, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Chess engine, Chess Engines Grand Tournament, Chess.com, Chess960, Chi-squared test, Comparison of top chess players throughout history, DeepMind, Distributed computing, Don Dailey, Elo rating system, Endgame tablebase, Fork (software development), Free and open-source software, Fritz (chess), GNU General Public License, Google, Graphical user interface, Hikaru Nakamura, Houdini (chess), Internet Chess Club, IOS, Komodo (chess), Late Move Reductions, Lichess, Linux, MacOS, Magnus Carlsen, Microsoft Windows, Multiprocessing, PyChess, Rybka, Science Daily, Sequential probability ratio test, Source code, Stockfish, Tensor processing unit, The Daily Telegraph, The Verge, Top Chess Engine Championship, Transposition table, Universal Chess Interface.

Alpha–beta pruning

Alpha–beta pruning is a search algorithm that seeks to decrease the number of nodes that are evaluated by the minimax algorithm in its search tree.

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AlphaZero

AlphaZero is a computer program developed by the Alphabet-owned AI research company DeepMind, which uses an approach similar to AlphaGo Zero's to master not just Go, but also chess and shogi.

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Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms to individuals, companies and governments, on a paid subscription basis.

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Android (operating system)

Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google, based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open source software and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

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Bitboard

A bitboard is a data structure commonly used in computer systems that play board games.

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C++

C++ ("see plus plus") is a general-purpose programming language.

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Central processing unit

A central processing unit (CPU) is the electronic circuitry within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program by performing the basic arithmetic, logical, control and input/output (I/O) operations specified by the instructions.

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Centre national de la recherche scientifique

The French National Center for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the largest governmental research organisation in France and the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.

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Chess engine

In computer chess, a chess engine is a computer program that analyses chess or chess variant positions and makes decisions on the best chess moves.

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Chess Engines Grand Tournament

Chess Engines Grand Tournament, also known as CEGT, is an organization that tests computer chess software by playing chess engines against one another and publishing a ratings table.

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Chess.com

Chess.com is an Internet chess server, Internet forum and social networking website; it is also the name of the company that runs the site.

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Chess960

Chess960, also called Fischer Random Chess (originally Fischerandom), is a variant of chess invented and advocated by former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, announced publicly on June 19, 1996, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Chi-squared test

A chi-squared test, also written as test, is any statistical hypothesis test where the sampling distribution of the test statistic is a chi-squared distribution when the null hypothesis is true.

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Comparison of top chess players throughout history

This article presents a number of methodologies that have been suggested for the task of comparing the greatest chess players in history.

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DeepMind

DeepMind Technologies Limited is a British artificial intelligence company founded in September 2010.

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Distributed computing

Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems.

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Don Dailey

Don Dailey (March 10, 1956 – November 22, 2013) was an American longtime researcher in computer chess and a game programmer.

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Elo rating system

The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess.

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Endgame tablebase

An endgame tablebase is a computerized database that contains precalculated exhaustive analysis of chess endgame positions.

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Fork (software development)

In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct and separate piece of software.

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Free and open-source software

Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that can be classified as both free software and open-source software.

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Fritz (chess)

Fritz is a German chess program developed by Vasik Rajlich (engine) and ChessBase (user interface).

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GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or GPL) is a widely used free software license, which guarantees end users the freedom to run, study, share and modify the software.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

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Graphical user interface

The graphical user interface (GUI), is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation, instead of text-based user interfaces, typed command labels or text navigation.

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Hikaru Nakamura

is a Japanese-American chess grandmaster.

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Houdini (chess)

Houdini is a UCI chess engine developed by Belgian programmer Robert Houdart.

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Internet Chess Club

The Internet Chess Club (ICC) is a commercial Internet chess server devoted to the play and discussion of chess and chess variants.

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IOS

iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware.

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Komodo (chess)

Komodo is a UCI chess engine developed by Don Dailey, Mark Lefler, and supported by chess author and evaluation expert, GM Larry Kaufman.

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Late Move Reductions

Late Move Reductions (LMR) is a non-game specific enhancement to the alpha-beta algorithm and its variants which attempts to examine a game search tree more efficiently.

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Lichess

Lichess is an Internet chess server.

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Linux

Linux is a family of free and open-source software operating systems built around the Linux kernel.

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MacOS

macOS (previously and later) is a series of graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001.

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Magnus Carlsen

Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.

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Multiprocessing

Multiprocessing is the use of two or more central processing units (CPUs) within a single computer system.

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PyChess

PyChess is a free software chess client developed for GNU.

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Rybka

Rybka is a computer chess engine designed by International Master Vasik Rajlich.

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Science Daily

Science Daily is an American website that aggregates press releases and publishes lightly edited press releases (a practice called churnalism) about science, similar to Phys.org and EurekAlert!.

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Sequential probability ratio test

The sequential probability ratio test (SPRT) is a specific sequential hypothesis test, developed by Abraham Wald.

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Source code

In computing, source code is any collection of code, possibly with comments, written using a human-readable programming language, usually as plain text.

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Stockfish

Stockfish is unsalted fish, especially cod, dried by cold air and wind on wooden racks (which is called "hjell" in Norway) on the foreshore.

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Tensor processing unit

A tensor processing unit (TPU) is an AI accelerator application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) developed by Google specifically for neural network machine learning.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Verge

The Verge is an American technology news and media network operated by Vox Media.

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Top Chess Engine Championship

Top Chess Engine Championship, formerly known as Thoresen Chess Engines Competition (TCEC or nTCEC), is a computer chess tournament that was organized, directed, and hosted by Martin Thoresen until the end of Season 6; from Season 7 onward it has been organized by Chessdom.

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Transposition table

In computer chess and other computer games, transposition tables are used to speed up the search of the game tree.

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Universal Chess Interface

A Universal Chess Interface (UCI) is an open communication protocol that enables chess engines to communicate with user interfaces.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockfish_(chess)

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