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Opera has released custom builds of its web browser for desktop and Android. They feature Chess.com integration, allowing users to play the game while browsing the web or watching videos.

Aditya Tiwari · Sep 19, 2023 with 10 comments

Stockfish 16 is now available for download. The developers behind the engine say that it's now 50 Elo points ahead of Stockfish 15 and can beat it in 12 times more games when they play together.

Paul Hill · Jul 5, 2023 · Hot! with 0 comments

A robot recently broke the finger of a seven-year-old during a chess tournament in Russia. The machine practically pounced on the child's finger and grabbed it with force, proceeding to break it.

Usama Jawad · Jul 25, 2022 with 14 comments

Garry Kasparov, the former chess champion, has said that it's stupid that Facebook is being essentially forced into disabling its facial recognition technology while China gets away with it.

Paul Hill · Nov 4, 2021 with 23 comments

Stockfish 14.1 has been released today with a 17 Elo point advantage over Stockfish 14. While not a huge leap, this update furthers the gap between the world's best players and chess engines.

Paul Hill · Oct 28, 2021 · Hot! with 6 comments

In this guide, we'll look at how to download and set up the latest Stockfish chess engine to help you analyse your games to see where you can improve or just to see how it fares against other engines.

Paul Hill · Jul 17, 2021 · Hot! with 1 comment

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News Staff · Jan 22, 2021 with 1 comment

Microsoft wants user feedback on which casual games it should develop next. People are required to vote for three of their favorite games from a selection of five, which includes Chess and Hearts.

Usama Jawad · Nov 22, 2015 · Hot! with 53 comments

Garry Kasparov vs Deep Junior : Man vs Machine. Certainly makes a good headline, but is that all that this is? Today, Garry Kasparov drew the 4th match out of 6, leaving the final conclusion...

· Feb 8, 2003 with -1 comments

International chess great Garry Kasparov said he wanted to prove "human players are not hopeless" when he battles world champion computer program Deep Junior next week in the latest "Man vs Machine" contest. ...

Michael Stanclift · Jan 24, 2003 with -1 comments

Did he really win? no! He drew - but hey- he found a weakness- and exploited it. The only way were gunna survive when computers take over the world - you think im joking. You...

· Oct 7, 2002 with -1 comments

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