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We can say that chess play is not an intractable problem to modern computing.

For the first two purposes computer chess has been a phenomenal success - going from the earliest real attempts to programs which challenge the best human players took less than fifty years. The prime motivations for computerized chess playing have been solo entertainment (allowing players to practice and to amuse themselves when no human opponents are available), as aids to chess analysis, for computer chess competitions, and as research to provide insights into human cognition.

5.7 Playing strength versus computer speed.

As of February 2007, Rybka is top-rated in many rating lists such CCRL, CEGT, SSDF, SCCT, and CSS rating lists and has won many recent official computer chess tournaments such as CCT 8 and 9, 2006 Dutch Open Computer Championship, the 16th IPCCC, and the 15th World Computer Chess Championship. Top commercial programs like Shredder or Fritz have surpassed even world champion caliber players at blitz and short time controls. There are many programs such as Crafty, Fruit and GNU Chess that can be downloaded from the Internet for free, and yet play a game that with the aid of virtually any modern personal computer, can defeat most master players under tournament conditions. Since then, chess enthusiasts and computer engineers have built, with increasing degrees of seriousness and success, chess-playing machines and computer programs.Ĭhess-playing computers are now available at a very low cost. The field of mechanical chess research languished until the advent of the digital computer in the 1950s.

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Before the development of digital computing, serious trials based on automatons such as El Ajedrecista of 1912, were too complex and limited to be useful for playing full games of chess. Around 1769, the chess playing automaton called The Turk became famous before being exposed as a hoax.

The idea of creating a chess-playing machine dates back to the eighteenth century. 1990s Pressure-sensory Chess Computer with LCD screen