Oh, but you meant the engine in its entire functionality, without handicaps, run on a decent device? https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-697e632fbd51b48792bf5f9faf6a572f-lq Then no. Nobody can beat it. https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-99835f904f4bdde0c2b3a75aee7a8ac2-pjlq Even Magnus Carlsen, the world champion, would be unable to beat it for over 99% of the time. Chess engines are now so sophisticated and advanced, it’s impossible for even the best humans to defeat good engines without a significant handicap on the engine’s part. Stockfish doesn’t make any mistakes. It calculates extremely fast. It sees further into the future than any human brain can, and it doesn’t tire or perform sub-optimally — unless humans purposefully handicap it. In chess, our distance to the best chess engines is astronomically large. It's a training partner. But no, Magnus, playing stockfish 14 on modern hardware, say a 2021 gaming computer, could play it as many times as he could for the rest of his life, and he'd never beat Stockfish. It's in an entirely different universe of strength. Grandmasters have no hope against computers anymore.
