

August 2022: The Play Magnus Group accepted an offer to be acquired by.November 2020: acquired the rights to broadcast the World Chess Championship 2021, which is broadcast on live streaming platform Twitch.In conjunction, the Komodo team announced the addition of the probabilistic method of Monte Carlo tree search machine learning, the same methods used by the recent chess projects AlphaZero and Leela Chess Zero. May 2018: announced that it had acquired the 3300+ Elo-rated commercial chess engine Komodo, then ranked 3rd behind Stockfish and Houdini.This occurred because of an integer overflow problem whereby the number was too large to be represented in the number of storage bits that were used.

June 2017: The 2,147,483,647th (= 2 31-1) game was played, which caused the iOS app to stop working for those with 32-bit Apple devices.The site introduced new features including computer analysis of games, and the chess variants of crazyhouse, three-check chess, king of the hill, chess960 and bughouse.

#Stockfish chess games software#
2005: Internet entrepreneur Erik Allebest and partner Jarom ("Jay") Severson bought the domain name and assembled a team of software developers to redevelop the site as a chess portal.1995: The domain was originally set up by Aficionado, a company based in Berkeley, California, to sell a piece of chess tutoring software called "Chess Mentor".5 Reaction to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
