10 Interesting Stories From The World Of Chess
4. Computers Dominate Chess
While Deep Blue unseating the current chess champion was a huge leap forward, the technology continued to improve in leaps and bounds.
Gradually, chess engines went from being "brute force" evaluation machines that crunched numbers and could be mainly negated by taking them out of their opening book to unstoppable forces that were incapable of making the mistakes that humans so often did.
AlphaZero is an interesting case where the AI learned purely by playing itself and achieved a level of play above all humans within a very short period. These engines are now pitted against each other in competitions which can produce new and novel ideas that even after hundreds of years of human study, no one has seen.
Most modern engines can be used for deep analysis but in order to have a chance at victory, even Grandmasters tend to need an advantage of some sort such as knight odds at the very least.
The relative strength of a few top engines is as follows:
Stockfish - 3492
Leela Chess Zero - 3462
Komodo - 3422
For reference, current chess champion Magnus Carlsen has an enormously strong rating of 2875.