Komodo Chess 14 Komodo 14 thinks like no other chess program. Inspired by AlphaZero, two years ago Komodo programmers GM Larry Kaufman and Mark Lefler began to redevelop their engine from the ground up. A good decision, since Komodo 13 was setting new benchmarks not only on the basis of ...
Komodo 12 - 14 and Dragon add a form of Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS). This is similar to what is used in programs like AlphaZero Chess. MCTS is different from traditional chess engine search techniques in that the search is guided by win probabilities instead of a traditional alpha-beta...
„Dragon 2“ - A new concept. Komodo programmers GM Larry Kaufman and Mark Lefler recently decided to start over from scratch after Komodo 14. The step from the classic engine to the new “Dragon”, which, like Fat Fritz 2.0, draws its strength from a combination of a high-performance ...
8/28/2019 – In Macau (China) the "Chess Events" of the International Computer Games Association (ICGA) came to an end last week. In fact, behind this prosaic name are world championships in three disciplines: the World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC), the World Chess Software ...
The next season starts this January 3rd. It will involve 30 of the strongest computer chess software programs in the world. One more time the engines will be provided with a high quality hardware – a 44 cores server. TCEC Season 11 will change to league format, you can find out all det...
After hearing two strong players argue that the only real progress in chess engines in the last ten years was due to faster computers a special match was played to challenge this idea. Komodo 8 ran on a smartphone while a top engine of 2006 used a modern