List of Chess Players - Computers

Computers

• Deep Blue, the IBM chess playing computer, was victorious in a 1997 match against then-world champion Garry Kasparov.
  • Deep Thought, an earlier version of Deep Blue, won many computer chess championships.
• Deep Fritz achieved a draw in the 2002 match, "Brains in Bahrain", against Vladimir Kramnik. A variant, X3D Fritz, drew against Kasparov in 2004, and the version Deep Fritz 10 defeated the world champion Vladimir Kramnik in 2006.
• Houdini (chess) Since the release of version 1.5 on 15 December 2010, it has taken the top spot in every rating list that includes it.
• Hydra (chess) is a very strong machine which uses custom parallel hardware.
• Junior is the winner of the 2006 World Computer Chess Championship, its third victory at this event.
• Rybka is a recent engine. As of December 2006, Rybka has topped all chess engine rating lists and won the 2007 WCCC.
• Shredder is another strong program, having won the WCCC twice.