List of notable chess players

This is a list of chess players.

Computers

• Deep Blue, the IBM chess playing computer, was victorious in a 1997 match against then-world champion Garry Kasparov. (Deep Thought was an earlier, similar machine.)
• Deep Fritz achieved a draw in the 2002 match, "Brains in Bahrain", against Vladimir Kramnik. A variant, X3D Fritz, drew against Kasparov.
• Hydra (chess), currently the strongest chess player in the world.
• Shredder is another strong program, having won the World Computer Chess Championship eight times.