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306:Monte Carlo tree search
66:Gyula Horváth engine 14
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728:Rustam Kasimdzhanov
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136:March 30, 2022
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887:basic rules
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818:open source
762:Deep Junior
677:Chess Tiger
406:CuckooChess
396:Chess Tiger
111:Nintendo DS
95:Platform(s)
21:Fritz Chess
1369:Categories
1294:2022-12-24
1264:2021-08-18
1234:2021-11-20
1214:Chess News
1182:Chess News
1122:2008-05-04
1097:2019-09-11
1072:2019-09-11
1020:References
965:nominated
944:checkmates
837:Viva Media
766:Deep Rybka
735:Deep Fritz
642:Deep Fritz
476:MChess Pro
411:Deep Fritz
341:Cray Blitz
143:2022-03-30
1037:ChessBase
989:ChessBase
955:Reception
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662:X3D Fritz
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644:drew the
640:In 2002,
630:Deep Blue
609:ChessBase
585:Chessbase
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521:Stockfish
516:SmarThink
461:KnightCap
436:GNU Chess
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1288:Archived
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973:See also
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908:castling
853:Shredder
809:with an
701:Shredder
656:server.
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506:Shredder
366:Mephisto
336:ChipTest
38:Genre(s)
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926:tactics
920:covers
768:3 x64.
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722:Accoona
689:Houdini
621:Fritz 3
603:History
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446:Houdini
286:Minimax
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685:Hiarcs
681:Crafty
486:MuZero
466:Komodo
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451:Ikarus
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371:Saitek
356:HiTech
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883:chess
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705:Zappa
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