In computer chess, a chess engine is a computer program that analyzes chess or chess variant positions, and generates a move or list of moves that it regards as strongest.
David Neil Laurence Levy is an International Master of chess who plays for Scotland, and a businessman. He is noted for his involvement with computer chess and artificial intelligence, and as the founder of the Computer Olympiads and the Mind Sports Olympiads. He has written more than 40 books on chess and computers.
Fritz is a German chess program originally developed for Chessbase by Frans Morsch based on his Quest program, ported to DOS, and then Windows by Mathias Feist. With version 13, Morsch retired, and his engine was first replaced by Gyula Horvath's Pandix, and then with Fritz 15, Vasik Rajlich's Rybka.
Game 6 of the Deep Blue–Kasparov rematch, played in New York City on May 11, 1997 and starting at 3:00 p.m. EDT, was the last chess game in the 1997 rematch of Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov.
Roman Yakovlevich Dzindzichashvili is a Soviet-born Israeli-American chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1977.
Zappa, Zap!Chess or Zappa Mexico, is a UCI chess engine written by Anthony Cozzie, a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The program emphasizes sound search and a good use of multiple processors. Earlier versions of Zappa are free and the current version is available at Shredder Computer Chess.
Fruit is a chess engine developed by Fabien Letouzey. In the SSDF rating list released on November 24, 2006, Fruit version 2.2.1 had a rating of 2842. In the CEGT rating list released on January 24, 2007, Fruit version 2.2.1 had a rating of 2776.
Rybka is a computer chess engine designed by International Master Vasik Rajlich. Around 2011, Rybka was one of the top-rated engines on chess engine rating lists and won many computer chess tournaments.
Vasik Rajlich is an International Master in chess and the author of Rybka, previously one of the strongest chess playing programs in the world.
The Women's World Team Chess Championship 2009 was the second edition of the women's chess event of the World Team Chess Championship. It was played in the Chinese city Ningbo.
The Women's World Chess Championship 2010 took place in Antakya, Turkey from December 2 through 24, 2010.
The championship will be played between from 9 to 17 January 2010 in Warsaw. The championship was contested by 16 players in a 2 games match format.. The time control was 90 minutes for 40 moves + 30 minutes. There was a 30 seconds increment for every move from the start.
The Women's World Chess Championship 2012 was a knockout tournament, to decide the women's world champion. The title was won by Anna Ushenina of Ukraine for the first time. Defending champion Hou Yifan went out in the second round.
Strelka is a computer chess engine for Windows, developed by Yuri Osipov. In total five versions of the program have been developed. The current version, 5.5, runs only on a single processor core. Strelka was one of the strongest programs in the world, according to several blitz rating lists and the strongest in Russia at the time.
Rajlich is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Alexander Volzhin is a Russian chess grandmaster.
Zbigniew Szymczak was a Polish chess player who won the Polish Chess Championship in 1983. FIDE International Master (1976).
