I played against Stockfish 16, the strongest chess computer in the world, and let’s just say it did not go well. I got checkmated in just 34 moves. But what makes Stockfish so unbeatable? It’s all down to the way it thinks and calculates millions of possible positions in just seconds.
Gary Linscott, a software engineer who has worked in computer chess for over 20 years, explained that Stockfish takes advantage of super powerful computers and can search tens of millions of positions per second. In fact, its evaluation function is probably stronger than almost all the chess players in the world.
Stockfish doesn’t have emotions or opinions, it just calculates the best move possible and can even look 50 to 60 moves into the future to evaluate the best outcome. It uses an alpha-beta search technique to eliminate the worst moves and quickly narrow down the search.
In the middlegame, Stockfish can make moves that violate traditional human chess principles because it’s ranking moves based on the likelihood of winning from that position, not on emotions or opinions. And in the endgame, Stockfish can even solve the game perfectly when there are seven pieces remaining on the chessboard or less.
So while I didn’t stand a chance against Stockfish, I’m curious, can anyone beat this unbeatable computer? What do you think? Have you ever played against a chess computer? Let me know in the comments!
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