Editing Computer chess (section)

=== Dedicated hardware ===
These chess playing systems include custom hardware with approx. dates of introduction (excluding dedicated microcomputers):
* [[Belle (chess machine)|Belle]] 1976
* Bebe, a strong [[bit-slice processor]] 1980
* [[HiTech]] 1985
* [[ChipTest]] 1985
* [[Deep Thought (chess computer)|Deep Thought]] 1987
* Deep Thought 2 (Deep Blue prototype)~1994
* [[IBM Deep Blue|Deep Blue]] 1996, 1997
* [[Hydra (chess)|Hydra]], predecessor was called Brutus 2002
* [[AlphaZero]] 2017 (used Google's [[Tensor Processing Unit]]s for neural networks, but the hardware is not specific to Chess or games)
** [[MuZero]] 2019 (similar hardware to its predecessor AlphaZero, non-specific to Chess or e.g. Go), learns the rules of Chess