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Think Like a Champion
Magnus Carlsen, the 16th World Chess Champion (2013–2023) and the highest-rated player in chess history with a peak Elo of 2882. Browse his greatest matches and learn how the GOAT thinks.
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Reigning Champion
Dommaraju Gukesh became the youngest undisputed World Chess Champion in history at age 18 by defeating Ding Liren in the 2024 World Championship match. A product of India's legendary Chennai chess scene, Gukesh is known for his calm temperament, deep preparation, and ability to play long, complex games without errors.
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Powerful Analysis
Analyse any game in depth with our offline-capable chess analyser. Stack-based PGN parsing preserves variation branches, evaluation bars show position strength, and strategy mode reveals best moves at every turn.
Open AnalyserModern Greats
Browse games from the world's strongest active players. Click any card to explore their best games.
Eternal Greats
Browse games from the legends of chess history. Click any card to explore their immortal games.
Time Travel
Challenge bots tuned to play in the style of history's greatest players.
Test Your Skills
Take on the strongest engines, from real Stockfish 18 to style-tuned bots.
Engine Battles
9,000+ engine games across the world's strongest chess engines. Click any matchup to browse the games.
Practice Mode
Practice Mode is built directly into the Rama Chess Game Viewer. Whenever you're reviewing a game, you can switch to practice and play out positions yourself against the engine — no separate page, no setup needed.
How it works: Open any game in the viewer, navigate to a critical position, and tap the practice button. You take over from that exact moment and play against Stockfish to see if you can find the best continuation.
Why it matters: This is how grandmasters train. Studying games is passive. Playing positions yourself — feeling the pressure, calculating variations, making real decisions — is how you internalize patterns and improve.
Practice anywhere: Drill openings against the engine, replay tactical puzzles from GM games, test your endgame technique. Every game on Rama Chess is also a practice tool.
Opening Theory
Explore 20+ named openings — Sicilian Defense, Ruy López, Queen's Gambit, French, Caro-Kann and more.
Brilliancies
The most beautiful moments in chess. Browse engine sacrifices by piece, and explore grandmaster + Magnus Carlsen sacrifice galleries.
Curated sacrifices from the greatest GM games — Tal, Kasparov, Morphy, Anderssen and more.
Browse GM Sacrifices
The best sacrificial games from the GOAT — Magnus Carlsen's queen, rook, and piece sacs in classical, rapid and blitz.
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From the world's best human players to the strongest chess engines ever created.
Player Profiles
The strongest active grandmasters ranked by classical Elo. Tap any card to read their journey.
Chess Legends
The greatest champions of all time. Tap any card to read their journey.
Behind the Scenes
Stockfish is the world's most powerful open-source chess engine, currently rated around 4060 Elo. Built by a global community of contributors and licensed under GPLv3, Stockfish uses NNUE (Efficiently Updatable Neural Network) evaluation combined with deep alpha-beta search. Stockfish 18, released January 31, 2026, gained +46 Elo over Stockfish 17 with the new SFNNv10 network.
In 2017, DeepMind shocked the chess world. AlphaZero — a neural network that learned chess from zero knowledge through self-play — defeated the reigning Stockfish 8 in a 100-game match (28 wins, 72 draws, 0 losses). It played in a style that looked almost human, sacrificing material for long-term positional pressure. Crucially, AlphaZero was never publicly released. Its weights are gone. The engine on this site labelled "Alpha Bot" is Stockfish tuned with custom UCI parameters to imitate AlphaZero's playing style — it is not the real engine.
After AlphaZero disappeared, the open-source community built Leela Chess Zero — an AlphaZero-inspired neural network engine trained on distributed self-play. Leela competes at the very top of computer chess, regularly trading wins with Stockfish in major tournaments like TCEC.
Beyond Stockfish and Leela, several other engines push the frontier: Torch (developed by the Komodo team), Berserk, Caissa, Dragon (commercial Komodo successor), Obsidian, and Stoofvless. All compete in CCRL and TCEC at the 3900-4010 Elo range.
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